Saturday, 16 October 2010
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REMEMBER MALCOLM X/EL HAJJ MALIK EL-SHABAZZ!!!
{2010 - Malcolm X would loathe Hobama and call him out like all real revolutionaries do!!!...AB}
1999
Life is full of surprises. I am pleasantly surprised by the new U. S postage stamp that honors Malcolm X/El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. Afrocentric Americans are rarely revered so. Though many more should be.
Malcolm deserves this reverence. He earned it as a global ambassador for racial and economic revolution. Malcolm was a proud Pan-African American. This new American symbol will lend balance and respect to other symbols which have been bastardized.
The symbolic film “X” was both parody and history. Malcolm’s biography was grossly abbreviated by director Spike Lee’s signature animation. Denzel Washington’s acting gifts added classic magic to this severely flawed film.
Those symbolic Neo-Nazi fashioned T-shirts, that racist Georgians love to don, are emblazoned proof of their beloved racist Georgia state flag, beneath logos which scream: “YOU WEAR YOUR X AND I WILL WEAR MINE!”. Perhaps this stamp will inspire a few fools to wear their T-shirts inside a library where they might research Malcolm and his sane and superior X.
I hope this stamp will move a nation beyond slander to research. Maybe more people will now choose to really know Malcolm’s legacy. They may come to understand the true meaning of his healing X. One which is completely unrelated to the wounding X on the bigoted bright red face of Georgia’s racist flag.
Malcolm adopted his X as an act of reclamation. It was a protest of the rapes of his ancestors. It was embraced to symbolically rectify the annihilation of his African heritage and native family name. The Georgia flag’s X symbolizes the very same racist evils which Malcolm’s X was destined to defy.
I know that Malcolm deserves this postal honor. I think he would also be surprised and amused by this stamp. Just as Malcolm now holds a special place at the post office, he will always hold a special place in my heart.
I love Malcolm for many reasons… He refused to be passive when being so was even more encouraged and rewarded than it is now. Malcolm was carnally wise. He was sexually secure with all sexualities. He chose to grow beyond a tough hustler to become a tender husband. He conquered his own eurocentrism and colorism as he became an afrocentric Pan-African. He refused to gaybash in his autobiography. He bravely battled his own sexism as he loved and cherished the budding feminist Dr. Betty Shabazz. And, one of his best friends was a lesbian.
Malcolm chose to seek superior educations in arenas where most seek only superior criminality. He chose to love an ebony black queen while his renowned peers were typically wooing and wedding the whitest women they could find. He adored his black baby girls and never whined about not having a son as most sexist fathers do.
Malcolm X would refuse to pretend that the blackish Hobama was not a corporate green “house nigger”!!!. He would refuse to be silent about Hobama’s rabidly elitist abuses of poor people. He would never be silent about how Hobama incessantly betrays blacks who masochistically and suicidally adore him.
Malcolm will always be my most regal King. He will be my ideal leader forever. The U.S. government slandered and stalked Malcolm while he lived. Now that he has gone to a superior place, the least the U. S. can do is pay him some belated respect. The USPS owes us all this one...


















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—-The New Invasion of Africa—–
by Amiri Baraka
So it wd be this way
That they wd get a negro
To bomb his own home
To join with the actual colonial
Powers, Britain, France, add Poison Hillary
With Israeli and Saudi to make certain
That revolution in Africa must have a stopper
So call in the white people who long tasted our blood
They would be the copper, overthrow Libya
With some bullshit humanitarian scam
With the negro yapping to make it seem right (far right)
But that’s how Africa got enslaved by the white
A negro selling his own folk, delivering us to slavery
In the middle of the night. When will you learn poet
And remember it so you know it
Imperialism can look like anything
Can be quiet and intelligent and even have
A pretty wife. But in the end, it is insatiable
And if it needs to, it will take your life.
SAVE THE DATE!!!
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http://aliciabanks.xanga.com/733047926/hobamas-africom--afri-con---the-african-american-mask-upon-the-new-world-order-inside-africa/
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http://aliciabanks.xanga.com/743836643/doubting-thomas-vs-denying-hobama/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-72yh0QXXMA
http://www.advocate.com/Arts_and_Entertainment/Books/Bio_Details_Malcolm_Xs_Gay_Life/
http://socialistworker.org/2011/04/04/voice-for-black-liberation
http://www.queerty.com/malcolm-x-was-americas-greatest-civil-rights-escort-20110407/
http://www.advocate.com/Arts_and_Entertainment/Books/Bio_Details_Malcolm_Xs_Gay_Life/
http://www.theroot.com/buzz/malcolm-xs-daughters-dislike-new-book
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4TONNIHJkc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL7RbQocbmc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfGdlfrOugg
http://rodonline.typepad.com/rodonline/2011/04/malcolm-xs-daughter-disputes-sexuality-claims-in-new-bio-storms-out-of-npr-interview.html
http://boycewatkins.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/malcolms-daughter-walks-off-interview-when-asked-about-her-fathers-sexuality/
http://boycewatkins.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/survey-three-fourths-of-african-americans-believe-nation-of-islam-killed-malcolm-x/
http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/04/malcolm_xs_daughter_disputes_sexuality_claims_leaves_interview.html
For Master Historian, Prof. Manning Marable of Columbia University, a book on the life of Malcolm Xcould only be a challenge that would daunt the faint-hearted.
Dr. Marable, founder of nearly half a dozen Black studies programs at colleges and universities across the country, would meet that challenge which demanded decades of study, reflection and writing to produce Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Viking: 2011).
Published at nearly 600 pages in length, it will stand as his masterwork,for Marable died, at 61, mere days before its release.
It captures the tone and tenor of the time, the quiescent '50's, the rolling '60's, and the equally turbulent, never resting spirit of Malcolm X (years before his ('X'), as a hustler, prisoner, convert, minister, activist, exile, revolutionary organizer and martyr.
Marable questions large parts of the classical texts drawn from the Autobiography of Malcolm X, (which, in retrospect, appears more biography than autobiography), and seems more the result of Haley's craft than the subject, as shown by much of the Internal correspondence between Haley and his editors, shaping the form tone and contact of the book.
Marable's book, however, is not free of critique. It opines that both Malcolm and Dr. Betty Shabazz (his wife) had sexual dalliances that may stain their memory. Moreover, he suggests Malcolm may've been involved in a homosexual affair in his youth.
These seem more speculation, rumor and innuendo than proof, however.
Finally, Dr. Marable treats the COINTELPRO-type files and FBI interest and actions regarding Black groups as givens, normalized and to be expected instead of the unconstitutional and indeed, criminal race police that they functioned as, against Malcolm, the Nation of Islam, and even the pacifist movement led by Dr. Martin L. King Jr (whom the FBI regarded as 'the most dangerous man in America!'). Nor does he note how laughably unreliable many of these files were.
There is much here that is new; Malcolm's teenage fascination with white women (and their real names and identities); police tracking of Malcolm since the mid '50's; the treacherous internal dynamics of the Nation of Islam; and Malcolm's courting of the Muslim Brotherhood (of Egypt)
There is too, the tragedy of its writer who, if in better health and perhaps with more time, could've devoted more of his energies and prodigious intellect to polish a work of such length and complexity.
That said, the work, Malcolm X shines because of the brilliance not only of its author, but of its principal subject -Malcolm X.
For his life was one constant reinvention in an age when the nation itself -- and Black Americans --were in the process of transformation. America was trying to shed its apartheid past, and Negroes were becoming Black people, and African-Americans -- and some (like Malcolm) citizens of an emerging (largely non white) international community.
Dr. Marable has made, virtually with his last breath, a bold and mammoth addition to our storehouse of knowledge.
Of that, we, and he, should be proud, for by painting Malcolm thusly, he makes him more human -- more like us.
--(c) '11 maj
==================The Power of Truth is Final -- Free Mumia!
Audio of most of Mumia's essays are at: http://www.prisonradio.org
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http://aliciabanks.typepad.com/blog/2010/05/happy-birthday-to-el-hajj-malik-el-shabazzmalcolm-x.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVL4IAKA9Lc
and now harry heroically calls out hobama's bloody lusts for banksters and war
kudos to the beautiful harry b!!!
http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/harry-belafonte-explodes-presidential-make-me-do-it-myth
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/16/sing_your_song_harry_belafonte_on
http://www.amazon.com/Singular-Woman-Untold-Barack-Obamas/dp/1594487979/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1306008118&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Dreams-My-Father-Inheritance-ebook/dp/B000N2HCM4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1306008223&sr=1-1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwdlpdCcXZo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx2UGYoWC5I
http://socialistworker.org/2011/05/24/beyond-the-legend-of-malcolm-x
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwdx1ewLBYA
http://newamericamedia.org/2011/05/malcolm-x-grandson-decries-marable-biography-on-86th-birthday-observation.php
malcolm x on bloodless scared nigs:
"As long as the white man sent you to Korea, you bled. He sent you to Germany, you bled. He sent you to the South Pacific to fight the Japanese, you bled. You bleed for white people, but when it comes time to seeing your own churches being bombed, and little black girls murdered, you haven't got no blood."
http://www.amazon.com/Malcolm-X-Reinvention-Manning-Marable/dp/0670022209/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306372790&sr=1-1-spell
http://www.amazon.com/Judas-Factor-Plot-Kill-Malcolm/dp/1560250666/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1306372807&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Malcolm-Myth-Meaning/dp/0195102851/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1306372820&sr=1-1
http://aliciabanks.xanga.com/734174694/remember-malcolm-xel-hajj-malik-el-shabazz/
http://newblackman.blogspot.com/2011/05/we-are-malcolm-x.html#more
http://socialistworker.org/2011/05/24/beyond-the-legend-of-malcolm-x
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RoM_FWA7-A&playnext=1&list=PL3585EABBDD11ADFE
http://newblackman.blogspot.com/2011/05/malcolm-x-amiri-baraka-michael-eric.html