I commented here :
I learned to appreciate the life of Malcolm X many years ago. I was amused to read that former Attorney General Eric Holder recommended that black youth read his autobiography. Any person interested in history and justice should read all about Malcolm. White radicals in the 60s ( such as myself ) noted Malcolm’s political evolution in the last year of his life ( read socialist George Breitman’s book ) . Malcolm X made a conn made a connection between racist oppression of black people and capitalism and imperialism. Section that made him more RADICAL and more dangerous than ever ( FBI took note ) . Heaid Malcolm : ” Show me a capitalist and I’ll show you a blood sucker “. There is a nameless inscription in front of the University of Rhode Island Library. Here Malcolm the scholar speaks: he could spend the rest of his life in libraries just reading books , just satisfying his curiosity . But Malcolm X was assassinated in February of 1965 .At the time the Providence Journal had an editorial : ” Put down the assassination of Malcolm X as a minor footnote in history “. [ http://radicalrons.blogspot.com ]
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