Comments on: (Mis)Reading Malcolm http://uptownnotes.com/misreading-malcolm/ Mon, 08 Dec 2014 10:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Xavier Burgin http://uptownnotes.com/misreading-malcolm/#comment-3792 Sun, 29 May 2011 17:44:00 +0000 http://www.uptownnotes.com/?p=2338#comment-3792 I definitely agree with you on this. Malcolm X is greatly misconstrued by people in general and I’m not one to say I understand him the best. 

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]]> By: Xavier Burgin http://uptownnotes.com/misreading-malcolm/#comment-4573 Sun, 29 May 2011 17:44:00 +0000 http://www.uptownnotes.com/?p=2338#comment-4573 I definitely agree with you on this. Malcolm X is greatly misconstrued by people in general and I’m not one to say I understand him the best. 

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]]> By: Aaron Asphar http://uptownnotes.com/misreading-malcolm/#comment-3791 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:13:00 +0000 http://www.uptownnotes.com/?p=2338#comment-3791 Great read! This ossification of the phenomenon is something that plagues everything and its solid work like this that re-acquaints us with the indetterminacy of who Malcom X was. Many thanks.

]]> By: Aaron Asphar http://uptownnotes.com/misreading-malcolm/#comment-4569 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:13:00 +0000 http://www.uptownnotes.com/?p=2338#comment-4569 Great read! This ossification of the phenomenon is something that plagues everything and its solid work like this that re-acquaints us with the indetterminacy of who Malcom X was. Many thanks.

]]> By: Kimberly McLarin http://uptownnotes.com/misreading-malcolm/#comment-4546 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:53:00 +0000 http://www.uptownnotes.com/?p=2338#comment-4546 Excellent post. I had the same thought when I read Coates last statement about Malcolm in that first piece, just didn’t have the time or energy to refute. Malcolm never embraced integration, and some of us don’t count that fact among his flaws …..

]]> By: Kimberly McLarin http://uptownnotes.com/misreading-malcolm/#comment-3789 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:53:00 +0000 http://www.uptownnotes.com/?p=2338#comment-3789 Excellent post. I had the same thought when I read Coates last statement about Malcolm in that first piece, just didn’t have the time or energy to refute. Malcolm never embraced integration, and some of us don’t count that fact among his flaws …..

]]> By: Guest http://uptownnotes.com/misreading-malcolm/#comment-4545 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:14:00 +0000 http://www.uptownnotes.com/?p=2338#comment-4545 Regarding his view toward women, there’s this: “I’m saying this: That it’s noticeable that in these type of societies where they put the woman in a closet and discourage her from getting a sufficient education and don’t give her the incentive by allowing her maximum participation in whatever area of the society where she’s qualified, they kill her incentive. And killing her incentive, she kills the incentive in her children. And the man himself has no competition so he doesn’t develop to his fullest potential.”

But as for his ideas toward integration, there’s this, from his interview with Pierre Berton shortly before he was killed:

MALCOLM X: I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being, neither white, black, brown nor red. When you are dealing with humanity as one family, there’s no question of integration or intermarriage. It’s just one human being marrying another human being, or one human being living around and with another human being. I may say, though, that I don’t think the burden to defend any such position should ever be put upon the black man. Because it is the white man collectively who has shown that he is hostile towards integration and towards intermarriage and towards these other strides towards oneness. So, as a black man, and especially as a black American, I don’t think that I would have to defend any stand that I formerly took. Because it’s still a reaction of the society and it’s a reaction that was produced by the white society. And I think that it is the society that produced this that should be attacked, not the reaction that develops among the people who are the victims of that negative society.

BERTON: But you no longer believe in a Black State?

MALCOLM X: No.

BERTON: In North America?

MALCOLM X: No. I believe in a society in which people can live like human beings on the basis of equality.

]]> By: Anonymous http://uptownnotes.com/misreading-malcolm/#comment-3788 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:14:00 +0000 http://www.uptownnotes.com/?p=2338#comment-3788 Regarding his view toward women, there’s this: “I’m saying this: That it’s noticeable that in these type of societies where they put the woman in a closet and discourage her from getting a sufficient education and don’t give her the incentive by allowing her maximum participation in whatever area of the society where she’s qualified, they kill her incentive. And killing her incentive, she kills the incentive in her children. And the man himself has no competition so he doesn’t develop to his fullest potential.”

But as for his ideas toward integration, there’s this, from his interview with Pierre Berton shortly before he was killed:

MALCOLM X: I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being, neither white, black, brown nor red. When you are dealing with humanity as one family, there’s no question of integration or intermarriage. It’s just one human being marrying another human being, or one human being living around and with another human being. I may say, though, that I don’t think the burden to defend any such position should ever be put upon the black man. Because it is the white man collectively who has shown that he is hostile towards integration and towards intermarriage and towards these other strides towards oneness. So, as a black man, and especially as a black American, I don’t think that I would have to defend any stand that I formerly took. Because it’s still a reaction of the society and it’s a reaction that was produced by the white society. And I think that it is the society that produced this that should be attacked, not the reaction that develops among the people who are the victims of that negative society.

BERTON: But you no longer believe in a Black State?

MALCOLM X: No.

BERTON: In North America?

MALCOLM X: No. I believe in a society in which people can live like human beings on the basis of equality.

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]]> By: Fairenee http://uptownnotes.com/misreading-malcolm/#comment-4544 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:07:00 +0000 http://www.uptownnotes.com/?p=2338#comment-4544 Hegal defined truth as neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two. We need to stop looking for perfection in people and/or institutions, but rather work toward “greater goods” e. g. what or whom ever advances humanity as a whole.

]]> By: Fairenee http://uptownnotes.com/misreading-malcolm/#comment-3786 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:07:00 +0000 http://www.uptownnotes.com/?p=2338#comment-3786 Hegal defined truth as neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two. We need to stop looking for perfection in people and/or institutions, but rather work toward “greater goods” e. g. what or whom ever advances humanity as a whole.

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