Originally Posted by
splanky
I have not read the late Marable's book on Malcolm yet but I plan to. That Stanley Crouch gave it a quite favorable view last year tells me it doesn't paint a pretty picture of Malcolm because Stanley hates Malcolm's icon status in Black history.
I could talk all day about how much Stanley just doesn't get it but my blood pressures already up this morning and I need to
chill this weekend. That said, I LOVED Malcolm and always will no matter what is said and have since I was a child. As I had
muslims in my family at the time, we were shocked when he was killed. Fast forward many years and I would be shocked again when Sister Betty would be killed by her and his' grandson. I attended the wake for her in Harlem and I felt really bad
for not only the family but for her longitme friend Yuri Kochiyami who I had met before Betty's passing. Damn, too many memories. I've read and owned Malcolm's autobiography over a half dozen times; everytime I've loaned it to someone they
always kept it. It was always "Oh, soon, I'm not done...", "Sorry, I lost it...", "No, you didn't loan that to me, maybe you loaned it to my sister" or some other excuse, so I stopped asking for it back. I also have read over a dozen books on his life
from different perspectives, collections of speeches and I highly recommend readling the book about Betty's life with him. Sorry, I can't remember the title right now. Malcolm still lives in my heart to this day...
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