{"id":56456,"date":"2018-02-05T08:51:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T06:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sanejoker.info\/2018\/02\/malcolm-x-the-portrait-of-a-free-man.html"},"modified":"2022-01-30T10:17:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T08:17:49","slug":"malcolm-x-the-portrait-of-a-free-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanejoker.info\/en\/2018\/02\/malcolm-x-the-portrait-of-a-free-man.html","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm X, the portrait of a free man."},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to be realistic about being a nigger\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n

Malcolm X\u2019s original name was Malcolm Little, right?<\/p>\n

Wrong! \u201cLittle\u201d was the nickname that a white master gave to a black slave of his who was an ancestor of Malcolm. He was way too Big when he was reborn \u2013free of passions and prejudices \u2013 to be named Little.<\/p>\n

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The first time that he was born was on May 19, 1925, in Nebraska. His father was an active member of UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association).<\/p>\n

Six years after the birth of his third child, Malcolm, he paid for his audacity. His body with his skull shattered was found on the tram track cut in half. The cronies of Ku Klux Klan had done their job.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Malcolm and his five siblings grew up eating porridge made of corn flour and boiled greens. At school, they were \u201cthe niggers\u201d.<\/p>\n

His mother was cleaning houses of white people but at some point she broke down and she was taken to the Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital. The children were separated to different foster families.<\/p>\n

Malcolm was a very good student, better than the majority of his white classmates. But when a teacher asked him what he wanted to become in the future and he replied that he harboured ambitions of becoming a lawyer, the teacher\u2019s answer left him speechless:
\n\u201cYou\u2019ve got to be realistic about being a nigger. A lawyer, that\u2019s not a realistic goal for a nigger. Why don\u2019t you plan on carpentry?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like a decent nigger, he made no more dreams about becoming a lawyer, he started to straighten his hair, wearing cool clothes and selling drugs.<\/p>\n

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When he turned 15 years old, he moved in his \"\"<\/a>elder sister\u2019s house and he embarked on his career in crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cStraightening my hair<\/strong>\u201d, writes in his biography, \u201cwas my first really big step toward self-degradation: when I endured all of that pain, literally burning my flesh to have it look like a white man\u2019s hair<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n

For five years he was verifying the white people\u2019s stereotype that black people were nothing but the parasites of society, natural born criminals and racially inferior.<\/p>\n

Until he was arrested for an armed robbery (his white wife was a mitigating factor) and was sentenced for eight years to Charlestown State Prison; and that\u2019s where X was born.<\/p>\n

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In prison he got acquainted with the Nation of Islam, a movement that was promoting the faith \"\"<\/a>of Islam as the natural religion of the black people. It represented their independence, the pride of their race and the right to self-defense.<\/p>\n

Malcolm believed in something for the first time in his life and that is what saved him. He dropped criminal behavior and fights and began to educate himself. He read so many volumes under such poor light conditions that he had to put on glasses.<\/p>\n

(He later found out that the founder of the \u201cNation\u201d Elijah Muhammad was equally corrupted with the \u201cwhite devils\u201d and he was working hand in glove with Ku Klux Klan. But a fair amount of time elapsed before he put his finger on it.)<\/p>\n

Malcolm got out of prison seven years later, determined to \u201cdevote the rest of my life to telling the white man about himself\u2014or die<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n

He got two for two.<\/p>\n

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As a Muslim and X, Malcolm became pretty soon the number two in the Nation of Islam. It was<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Malcolm X, Black Muslim leader, addresses a rally in Harlem in New York City on June 29, 1963. (AP Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

not just his utter commitment to the cause but mainly<\/strong> his astounding skills as a speaker.<\/p>\n

Wherever he gave a speech \u2013even at the black Gomorrah- his brothers, the Afro-Americans, the coloured people, the black ones, the Negroes, the niggers, were abandoning their former prodigal life and they were following him; because he reminded them who they really were.<\/p>\n

As we saw in the self-titled movie by Spike Lee with Denzel Washington as Malcolm X: \u201cBefore there was any such thing as a Republican or a Democrat, we were black. Before there was any such thing as a Jew or a Christian, we were black people. In fact, before there was any such place as America, we were black!<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n