 Today's show on Malcolm X is actually a class that I presented to my ninth grade students in the year 2017 I would consider it an introduction to Malcolm X. It's an excellent place to start if you don't know much about Malcolm X You would absolutely Enjoy this introduction You should follow it up by reading the autobiography of Malcolm X More recently There is an extensive history of Malcolm X written by Manning Marable There is the book by Les Payne and his daughter Tamara Payne the dead are arising There's just so much literature out there on Malcolm X. You can read His daughter's book Ilyasa Shabazz the awakening of Malcolm X You can go into Malcolm X the man in his times written by Dr. John Henry Clark But before you do all of that just start here. Hopefully you'll enjoy it You can share this with any person on any level Who wants to know Malcolm X and has not been introduced to them yet. It's an introduction to Malcolm X Is not his last name so who knows what X is Well, think you know what X I know you think it means the unknown. What about you a placeholder? What do you have Mike? Okay, what about some of the answers other people had Some of us said that Malcolm X the 10th. It could be short for Xavier What was that? Wow, it was wrong. I Was said it might be a Roman numerals because we talked about that and We said for example, some folks that like Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali had a son. His son would be Muhammad Ali, Jr. He had to sign him to be the third. He had to sign him to be the fourth Fifth get all the way up to the tenth in the X And Roman numeral It's 10 Right. Yes, for Roman numerals the symbol of X is a 10 So some thought it could be that correct, right, right like you, right? What have we Learned about Brother mountain in his name Wow So his birth name was Malcolm little one, where was he born? Omaha, Nebraska His father was a member of the UNIA in African community. Who knows what that is It was an organization For black people by black people that the uncle Marcus Mosiah Garvey set up the initial stand for Universal Negro Improvement Association and African communities lead to this date. It's the largest all black global organization ever in the history of The world and its height it had over four million functioning members. So he's born in Omaha, Nebraska with They give it to him little from his parents eventually He finds himself in Detroit after movie And it becomes known as What Why yes Because he was from Detroit and like yours Was red From Detroit he goes to Harlem Where he gets the nickname but they didn't call him Detroit red and Detroit they started calling Detroit red in Harlem right While in Harlem, he began to do some illegal things. Anyone know some illegal things you used to do No No He was he was robbing and burglarizing hold He was using drugs He was stealing he was a petty criminal in thief and get to rest He goes to prison. He picks up another nickname Which was what say why did they call him Satan in prison You got me because it was me But it's some people are mean and prison, but why would they call him Satan? He was real me he didn't talk to anyone Right And then what happened what made him change directions Oh, I think remember was a sister that told him that requested him that he should be a lot of mahalis his brother's sister They told me met a man named Elijah And he started researching it and they gave him what You begin to read He read every book you could read You got a dictionary From front to back and read all of them so it began to improve his vocabulary He read some of the literature of Elijah Muhammad and he stopped Using drugs he decided from that point on he wasn't going to use drugs anymore, right? He also decided to change his diet, so he gets out of prison and he goes to be who And Elijah Muhammad Has an organization called what? The Nation of Islam. This is good preview. Good job brothers. And so when he's in the Nation of Islam Elijah Muhammad Yeah, again to give out name And so he like our naming ceremony right and so he says All right Malcolm from now on you gonna be known as Malcolm was No No, and so why was he giving his members this symbol of X It was a place owner for unknown because they were Because they were carrying what the slave master's name as a result of our people being in slavery Right James as a result of our people being in slavery many of us took on what? Slave master's name and so we knew because we were from Africa had English names We weren't French We weren't German So we should have been carrying French names German names English names Irish names Italian names any European name, right? So he gave us In him X because he was no longer little and his last name was unknown So from there on He decided That he became worthy of a name of his own and what name did he give Malcolm X? So he comes known as Malcolm Shabbat And then later on he goes on a pilgrimage to where? And anyone who goes to Mecca he goes or hi They take on the name Necessarily your name It's like a preface Or it's like a mister or missus. It defines Something about you. So if you had a PhD or if you were an attorney You have as far to end of your name, right? It indicates that you've done something Right, so if you have a PhD like doctor my eye, right or doctor Bobble or doctor That means they have to do what to be called that get it get a PhD and doctors yet They went where to get that college. They went to school, right? They went to college, right? Yes. Stay focused. I need you to stay focused college he went to Mecca As hell hell hard Malcolm Shabbat So we're watching the transformation. He's going through what some would call. I need you to stay focused Sit down properly. I'm not gonna talk to you again He's going through what some would call a revolutionary spiritual and cultural rights of passage Like we do when we go through rights of passage we go through naming ceremonies We get to learn more about ourselves We have to go through different things that are just private and unto the group and it's mandatory to do what here Have to get up get all four years and serve a leadership and in order to do what? Graduate graduate you can't graduate or go on to the next level unless you go through four years of rights of passage Yes, these mountains go into its revolutionary Revolutionary Spiritual Cultural Changing names as she moves through the process He takes on My little Malik Shabbat Was an English name because he realized in Malcolm was an English name and because he was Muslim He wanted a name to reflect his what Eric and Arab name at the Middle Eastern Religion right And because Islam is often affiliated with Arabic he chose Malik Where Africa he goes where they change it They changed his name to Oma Wali because they said that the Malik is an Arab name and hit the Oma Wali's African name, which means the child has come home You know rather we want to bestow you with another name and they call him The child has come home the child has come home All right, so let's review the name he goes from Malcolm at little the toy red say in X Malcolm Shabbat Malcolm Shabbat Al-Had Malik Shabbat Please Shabbat Oma Wali Out of you clearly we've learned the lesson most of us and Now we're gonna put pen to paper to see whether or not we can answer the questions individually. 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