SDAntoNia’s Reviews > The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America > Status Update

I can understand him not wanting to get his hopes up about the conviction integrity program, cip, vindicating him all those years later.

Archival researcher: that is the kind of job or work that I would love to do.

What is it with human beings? Even if they were highly annoyed or still hated The Killers, why would they not want to make sure that the guys in prison were actually the right guys, rather than just putting any old two people in jail and assuming that they were the killers? Wouldn't you want to have the right people , the actual killers, in prison, rather than saying they were convicted let them rot? Makes no sense.

"...than the sanitized figure of school textbooks."

Exactly, which would be obvious if anyone bothered to read his final book published posthumously.

Again, why do we never hear about Malcolm Shabazz working,  while on his Africa tour with 1964 heads of state, to bring the USA before the UNHCR for the mistreatment of Black Americans?

Oh, wait, it's obvious...

... Malcolm's comments about Black self-help and economic self-sufficiency were made back during a period of segregation, before all the Black elites abandoned poor members of the community and left everyone high and dry, thus unable to help themselves economically, and in desperate need of affirmative action and school bussing, and so the Bourgeois Clarence Thomas is doubly hypocritical.

Much like my also hypocritical grandfather, who criticized the black elites for having moved out of the historically black neighborhoods, which was exactly what he also did by moving the family to Northern Virginia in the late sixties before I went right after I was born, although I was bouncing around with my irresponsible parents in the district, Clarence Thomas is being hypocritical because Malcolm's comments were

Holy shit, well done, Spike Lee.

"The most disrespected, unprotected , neglected person in America is the Black woman," said Malcolm in 1962, and, unfortunately, my experience bears that out as still having been true even recently as in 60 years later. Even, or perhaps especially, for a light skin black woman has a marginalized member of the community, yet sexualized by everyone in some horrible fantasy/"Fancy Maid" idea, especially by white men...

That is a very good point, the Kerner commission report really did say that this is a racist country or rather that America is "a racist society" and no, I guess you can't make the papers calling America racist anymore, even if it is still true.