What do you think of Malcolm X now?
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Why would you want to write a paper about him??? there are so many better personalities than him. but...\n\nNothing change. he was a user who used people for his purpose, and if you are not with him, he was for sure against you.  He was not a tolerant person, if you don't share his faith, you are for sure will be attacked by him.  He was a racist, before going to Mecca, and even more so when he came back.  All those blue eyes white people he spoke of shared one thing with him, is the religion.  After he came back, his focus turned from color to faith, he also turned against the same people who gave him the help needed in the start.  He converted to Nation of Islam, and then Islam, which in a way is the same, only there are white muslims, but if you are not muslim and wish to enter Mecca, you will be prohibited from entering, and if you tried to get in that town and cought, you will be severly punished just for entering the town.  That is racisim which MX was part of. \nWhen JFK was killed, he was not sympathetic but claimed that he deserved it.  I wonder what he would say if he could about his own ending!  would he say the same as what he said about JFK's murder! after all he was he good man, not racist, faithful to his faith, or at least that what he would wants you to believe.\n\nNation of Islam: it is a religion more about racism than the faith itself, it is about black and white, and what the white are doing to the blacks using the religion of Islam as their tool.\n\nHe turned against Dr. Martin Luther King, a black man, but was not Muslim as he.  King a peaceful man who wanted equality between all people.  Malcolm X, did not want that.
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He was becoming a liability to Al-Qaeda.  He was too heavy handed and his attacks on Muslim citizens became a burden.  I would not be surprised if Bin Laden called the CIA himself to tell them the location of Al-Zarquawi.\n\n\nOh and Fu**'em Bucky!\nUW Madison 1989
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hell no, he would never have gotten re-elected.......you notice you don't hear about that comment anymore hardly......but yet we still see the videos of Rodney King!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and my point is......New Orleans is so black/white segregated, still, oh you got me started, I have to go now!!
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I used to hate the man.  And now that everyone hates him--now I'm starting to respect some of his positions: in particular, I like his stance on immigration, and I prefer his--and Condoleeza's--diplomatic efforts during this, his second administration.  My sense is that Mr. Bush is orders of magnitude better than the average Republican, even if McCain, Giuliani, Bloomberg, and Specter are significantly better than him.
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NO he was not killed because of that, read this if you can, maybe it will explain to you.\nBiography of Malcolm X\n\n\n \nMarch 10, 1964\nPhoto by Truman Moore/Time Warner, Inc. \nMalcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother, Louis Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the family's eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Earl's civil rights activism prompted death threats from the white supremacist organization Black Legion, forcing the family to relocate twice before Malcolm's fourth birthday. Regardless of the Little's efforts to elude the Legion, in 1929 their Lansing, Michigan home was burned to the ground, and two years later Earl's mutilated body was found lying across the town's trolley tracks. Police ruled both accidents, but the Little's were certain that members of the Black Legion were responsible. Louise had an emotional breakdown several years after the death of her husband and was committed to a mental institution. Her children were split up amongst various foster homes and orphanages.\n\nMalcolm was a smart, focused student and graduated from junior high at the top of his class. However, when a favorite teacher told Malcolm his dream of becoming a lawyer was "no realistic goal for a nigger," Malcolm lost interest in school. He dropped out, spent some time in Boston, Massachusetts working various odd jobs, and then traveled to Harlem, New York where he committed petty crimes. By 1942 Malcolm was coordinating various narcotic, prostitution and gambling rings.\n\nEventually Malcolm and his buddy, Malcolm "Shorty" Jarvis, moved back to Boston, where they were arrested and convicted on burglary charges in 1946. Malcolm placated himself by using the seven-year prison sentence to further his education. It was during this period of self-enlightenment that Malcolm's brother Reginald visited and discussed his recent conversion to the Muslim religious organization the Nation of Islam. Intrigued, Malcolm studied the teachings of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. Muhammad taught that white society actively worked to keep African-Americans from empowering themselves and achieving political, economic and social success. Among other goals, the Nation of Islam fought for a state of their own, separate from one inhabited by white people. By the time he was paroled in 1952, Malcolm was a devoted follower with the new surname "X." He considered "Little" a slave name and chose the "X" to signify his lost tribal name.\n\n \nFeb. 18, 1965\nPhoto by Robert L. Haggins \nIntelligent and articulate, Malcolm was appointed a minister and national spokesman for the Nation of Islam. Elijah Muhammad also charged him with establishing new mosques in cities such as Detroit, Michigan and Harlem, New York. Malcolm utilized newspaper columns, radio and television to communicate the Nation of Islam's message across the United States. His charisma, drive and conviction attracted an astounding number of new members. Malcolm was largely credited with increasing membership in the Nation of Islam from 500 in 1952 to 30,000 in 1963.\n\nThe crowds and controversy surrounding Malcolm made him a media magnet. He was featured in a week-long television special with Mike Wallace in 1959, The Hate That Hate Produced, that explored fundamentals of the Nation of Islam and Malcolm's emergence as one of its most important leaders. After the special, Malcolm was faced with the uncomfortable reality that his fame had eclipsed that of his mentor Elijah Muhammad.\n\nRacial tensions ran increasingly high during the early 1960s. In addition to the media, Malcolm's vivid personality had captured the government's attention. As membership in the Nation of Islam continued to grow, FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) agents infiltrated
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The prevailing opinion is that after his trip to Mecca, Malcolm realized that his racially tinged rhetoric was counter to the teachings of Islam. He saw Muslims of all colors and creeds praying together so he began questioning his former positions. This didn't set too well with the Nation of Islam leadership...as a result, they had him murdered.  Not sure how much of that is factual, but it has been repeated quite a few times.
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I complained about him. but with the problem of freedom of speech....it's difficult to get around.  Hopefully through seeing diaglogue like the type we engage in, others will not be swayed by his violent words. Unlikely that he himself will change and I hope he doesn't have children or is around them..he may make a mini militia!  best-tharedhead
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Although they have been the champions of blacks who have been oppressed and treated like dirt over the years in the United States, those days have pretty much gone by the wayside for the most part. Oh granted there are and always will be racisim and there is nothing tha can be done about it sadly. The unfortunate part of the NAACP is that because there are no more real hard core causes for them to mount, they have a tendency to go on crusades for asinine reasons, only to make themselves look even more foolish when you bring Jesse Jackson or worse...that simpleton Al Sharpton aboard. Of course the ACLU is the same way. Any cause just to let you know that they are still around. I think that if they re-evaluated their agendas and lobbied for real issues that may arise instead of pushing to make ebonics a second language they could once again be a moving force and one you could begin to take seriuosly once again instead of looking at everything they lobby for with a skewed eye.
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Malcolm X has a change of beliefs shortly before his death.  During his trip to Mecca, Malcolm discovers that Whites and Blacks can live together. He then believes that he has been too narrow minded in the past and excepts whites.  he realizes that it is not the color of ones skin but their character that should determine if they are good or bad.  He dies alot more open to ides than most think.
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Michael Moore, lie? That treasonous, smug fat f*cking piece of shit would do something shady to one of the people we should respect the most? \n\nI hope he gets taken for every filthy cent he's made off the war, the terrorists attacks, and tragedy at Columbine- that sick opportunist b*stard.\n\n(Sorry, I really don't that pecker in the first place. That little bit of news didn't help.)
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DR: Your side said that when Nixon was in power too!\n\nIt is a great day, I finally feel after 6 long years I got a piece of my country back. Tired of seeing the constitution ripped to shreds by a bunch of pasty-white closeted bigots. \n\nViva Le Resistance!
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I think he was.  Yea, he was a racist, but so was Lincoln.  He had slaves, but who didnt?  Its easy to judge him now out of context, but he was born and raised in Va since 1807, it was the way of life,so you cant judge him using today's standards.  It takes extraordinary people to go against popular belief, but just because you dont, doesnt make you a bad person.
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He's my bud, a fellow Texan.  I voted for him twice and still stand by him.  I am a little miffed about his stance on the illegal situation and I want him to be tough on this.  But I have been thinking and I feel that he has sincere compassion for these people.  He's in a very tough spot.  Actually, he's been in a tough spot since election day in 2000!  Poor guy has been plagued by everything imagineable.
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Yo whats crackalaken?... Good Questions..and being Black I can tell you the Panthers are reverse racism in the worst way. Anyone that listens to Farakhan is not the sharpest tool in the shed. I also found it funny that the ORIGINAL Klan(there a 3 diffent Klan Nations) after the Civil War was created to drive carpetbaggers(YANKEES) from the south and the 2nd coming of the Klan was the one that really started the Hangings and crap..they also hung quite a few whites and had 4 million members in the 30's. Bobby and Huey Long never came close to that with the Panthers. Both Org. now are not really strong, maybe people see that only as ONE can we do anything.
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I think he is a man with a personal agenda and an audience that he can work with to achieve it.  I don't think there is anything holy about him - personally I find him distasteful.\n\nPeace!
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Malcolm X was a radical who spewed hate and inequality, he was no different from the leaders of the KKK.
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HE WAS AMAZING!!!\ntaylor sucked..i hope he leaves tomorrow hes starting to annoy me!