The Autobiography of Malcolm X shows how far we have come and where we are today. But to see white America finally catch on that the systematic racism is deeply ingrained (BLM George Floyd). The Re-Autobiography Of Malcolm X NPR does an interview with Manning Marables to find out about his version of the Malcolm X story. Today's young men and women who don't remember the struggle of the 1960s they don't remember very much except in history books. Watch this video to see Malcolm X in action speaking to reporters. I just wanted to see both of them force this country into new Direction. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me the blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline, forged through sheer force of will. I never bought into any of that and never gave my opinion as you would loose either way. Malcolm X’s autobiography seemed to offer something different. **( Note how they used the N word and did not think it was offensive). They would tell me Malcolm X is a Bad and Martin Luther king was a good one. I was young then, I dealt with a lot of racism and one of the things that I remembered was white associates would try to force me to tell them was I for Malcolm X or was I for Martin Luther King. I never knew that Malcolm X had left a autobiography however, I remember that time period. I am a better man for having listened to this book.
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