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The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X

Start date: January 1, 2024

Finish date: January 31, 2024

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Mar 06, 2016 Yair Ben-Zvi rated it it was amazing

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A passionate call to a country and a world that conflated and conflates absolution of sins past with a total denial of those selfsame sins and a declarative 'get over it'; Malcolm X's autobiography is a brilliant clarion blast to an entire displaced people to stand up, be proud, and take control of their own political and cultural destiny. Having been raised in a Jewish Nationalist household (with the name Meir Kahane and the JDL as well as Kach party names being thrown around a lot along with t ...more

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Feb 20, 2024 Jeffrey rated it really liked it

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We learn so little about Martin Luther King in school and what we do learn is so simplified that I can hardly say we learn anything at all (except, of course, the vague and sanitized notion of civil disobedience) and learn nothing about Malcolm X except that he was generally some kind of counterpoint to King. I’m forty years old and I’ve never made an attempt to correct this failing, so I started to feel like a real asshole.

So I grabbed this one from the library. It was well past time to know wh ...more

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