Malcolm X's Birthday..

[SoCalifer]

An excellent remembrance of Malcolm X done on Democracy Now.

((video stream)) -- http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2005/may/video/dnB20050519a.rm&proto=rtsp









If the above link doesn't work for you. Try going to this page: http://www.democracynow.org/streampage.pl

[NorCalDem]

1. It today Malcolm's B-day??

Awesome, I'm in good company! Happy B-day to Mr. X and myself from me! Yeah....

[AirAmFan]

2. 'The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way:

the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative.'

That's the most provocative Malcolm X quote I can think of for a DU audience, and a very timely one.

On the rare occasions when there are DU threads devoted to issues such as affirmative action, Al Sharpton's race for President, the eight-to-one racial disparity in incarceration in the US, Tasering of a minority child by the police, or even Halle Berry's first Leading Role Academy Award for an African-American woman, much of the contents tend to differ little from what you'd expect to see on Free Republic. Malcolm X's birthday is a reminder of how far even DU has to go on the issue of race in America.

[Sparkle]

3. Yeah but Malcome X didn't know about moles and trolls.

And that's what we have on this board.

[AirAmFan]

4. I think you replied to the wrong post.

Moles and trolls are easy to ignore, but the sincere posts of DUers who haven't informed themselves about the issues I mentioned are too plentiful to deny.

[applegrove]

5. Whenever I think of Malcolm X - I see how every decade he grew

& changed. I keep thinking he would have dropped Islam (as he was beginning to be frustrated by it) and turned into a true political leader.

Such loss in the 1960s.