Since today is May 19th i really think we should speak about Malcolm X(b.Malcolm Little). For those who have no idea about who he was, all i’m gonna say is that he was a good speaker and a great man who fought for human rights( he did what we all suppose to do…)
http://www.cmgww.com/historic/malcolm/about/bio.htm
Hit that link for informations about Malcolm (i don’t know much myself:( )
As you will read there his biography you will observe that he was a good student finishing highschool “at the top of his class”. But i want to insist on what comes next :” However, when a favorite teacher told Malcolm his dream of becoming a lawyer was “no realistic goal for a nigger,” Malcolm lost interest in school.”
This is the saddest thing around, those who are meant to support you, are smashing your dreams and this is real now in 2005. It doesn’t matter if you are black, yellow, white, you can be blue…they won’t help you! Are few the ones who really care for youth education( but that’s another post).
Take a look at the 1st quote :”"I had met blonde-haired, blued-eyed men I could call my brothers.” Malcolm was a man who had fought for pure freedom and pure justice, he was the national spokeman of NOI and he defended the rights of the Black man. After he went on a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, he started sharing his thoughts and beliefs to different cultures, that means he realised that ALL pple have the problems Black man was dealing with back then. ” This time when Malcolm spoke, instead of just preaching to African-Americans, he had a message for all races.” It’s like this, PPLE WILL ACCEPT A LEADER THAT COMES AMONG PPLE.My point is that we need and want someone who can spoke for our needs, our beliefs, exactly as we feel them, not as the government seems to understand them. That’s what Malcolm X did back then, he spoke for the nation, “Fight the Power”, he wanted the best for the Black community…and after the pilgrimage to Mecca he felt that way for all races. I guess you know what they say “you must go to Mecca at least one time in your life, unless you want your life to be incomplete”. I hope i’m not the only one who wants a leader that know what misery means, what starving means, what means when you see your mom crying because she doesn’t know what tomorrow’s gonna put on the table. We don’t need someone from a social “highclass” with a diploma from a private school…i don’t care if my leader knows how to build a nuclear bomb out of detergents, but i’ll be forever thankful if he knows how to manage my family’s needs…my youth education, and low taxes and prices. I don’t want to be missunderstood but i want what every man on this dumb planet wants=a better life for all of us. Because what Malcolm X became after he spent those 7 years in prison is what we can become,is what your children can, what OUR children can…but we don’t need half of life to realise that, we don’t need to loose ourselves if we don’t get the support from “our favourites” because that’s what happend to Malcolm. We have SO MANY examples of good and bad charachters, why we keep following the bad ones? Why we keep on self-destructing? For the youth ones-i hope you will take a look at the past, just a look, you don’t have to study to know for what some of us had fought for. for the grown ups-pay more attention to the present and to the future, you are the ones who raise the kids today. Let’s not just hope…let’s do something major for ourselves. On my pc i have a picture of a ruff ryders T-shirt that has written with majuscules WHY? and under with little letters :ARE THE STREETS RAISING OUR SONS. This is something we should think about…this is something Malcolm X wouldn’t wanted us to say as he didn’t wanted that teacher to ruine his dreams as he didn’t wanted Elijah Muhammad to shock him.
remember we can be all brothers, all you gotta do is be peaceful and think positive
“I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.” Malcolm X
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