What do you think Malcolm X would be saying today were he alive?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

Personally I think he would be saying a big "I told you so"

Discuss.

[Maddy McCall]

1. He did say that. "The chickens come home to roost."

About JFK's assassination.

[msgadget]

2. I thought about that too but wasn't familiar with what he was saying

after his travels to unite people of color so I couldn't begin to guess. I googled around and found some speeches and based on what I found, I have to agree, he'd have said, "Didn't I warn you to pay closer attention?".

http://www.malcolm-x.org/speeches/spc_021465.htm">February 14, 1965

John F. Kennedy also saw that it was necessary for a new approach among the American Negroes. And during his entire term in office, he specialized in how to psycho the American Negro. Now, a lot of you all don't like my saying that, but I wouldn't ever take a stand on that if I didn't know what I was talking about. And I don't -- by living in this kind of society, pretty much around them -- and you know what I mean when I say "them" -- I learned to study them. You can think that they mean you some good ofttimes, but if you look at it a little closer you'll see that they don't mean you any good. That doesn't mean there aren't some of them who mean good. But it does mean that most of them don't mean good.

Kennedy's new approach was pretending to go along with us in our struggle for civil rights and different other forms of rights. But I remember the expose that Look magazine did on Meredith's situation in Mississippi. Look magazine did an expose showing that Robert Kennedy and Governor Wallace -- not Governor Wallace, Governor Barnett -- had made a deal, wherein the attorney general was going to come down and try and force Meredith into school, and Barnett was going to stand at the door, you know, and say, "No, you can't come in." He was going to get in anyway. But it was all arranged in advance. And then Barnett was supposed to keep the support of the white racists, because that's who he was holding up, and Kennedy would keep the support of the Negroes, because that's who he'd be holding up. That's -- it was a cut-and-dried deal. And it's not a secret; it was written, they write about it. But if that's a deal and that's a deal, how many other deals do you think go down? What you think is on the level is crookeder, brothers and sisters, than a pretzel, which is most crooked.

So in my conclusion I would like to point out that the approach that was used by the administration right on up until today -- see, even the present generation -- was designed skillfully to make it appear that they were trying to solve the problem when they actually weren't. They would deal with the conditions, but never the cause. They only gave us tokenism. Tokenism benefits only a few. It never benefits the masses, and the masses are the ones who have the problem, not the few. That one who benefits from tokenism, he doesn't want to be around us anyway -- that's why he picks up on the token.

[newyorican]

3. The Ballot or the Bullet...

What else?

[undergroundrailroad]

4. How about VOTE OR DIE?

Rap star P Diddy has adopted a hard-hitting campaign slogan as he attempts to convince young people to vote in the coming November's Presidential election in America.

Diddy's 'Citizen Change' campaign will use the slogan 'Vote or Die!' for its publicity on T-shirts, reprts RateTheMosic.com.

The hip-hop star hopes that his unusual and stern slogan will help young people realise the value of voting in elections.