Re: Malcolm X's meeting with the KKK
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Michael Meeropol
I go much further on Malcolm X --- as described both in his Autobiography and even better in Marable's wonderful biography, Malcolm X GREW so dramatically ---- from a two bit hoodlum to a jailhouse self-educated leader of the NOI to someone who WITHIN THE NOI, began to realize the differences between the NOI's programs and the realities of black life in the US --- AND AROUND THE WORLD _-- His assassination was a horrible act -- not just for his family and the movement he was seeking to create but for the US as a whole --- he had the potential to be a wonderful balance wheel to the non-violent approach of MLK --- There is a lot of evidence, by the way, that despite Malcolm's rhetoric in attacking "integrationists" and pooh-poohing the 1963 March on Washington --- he (Malcolm X) always eviced a grudging admiration for King --- and had he not been cut down, it is not beyond the rhealm of possibility to see Malcolm and King making common cause in the late 1960s --- All of this is one of the reasons why the FBI targeted Malcolm --- Had he not been assasinated when he was, the FBI would have done all in its power to "remove" him ---- He would have been a helluva threat to American Capitalism and Imperialism in the 1965-68 period -- [PS -- I sure that meeting took place -- I am of course completely unsure about the content of that meeting] (Mike Meeropol)
On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 1:56 AM RKOB <aktiv@...> wrote:
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