Anniversary of the Death of Malcolm X

[e_dog]

"America is just as much a colonial power as England ever was. America is just as much a colonial power as France ever was. In fact, America is more so a colonial power than they, because she’s a hypocritical colonial power behind it. " -- Malcolm X

see www.democracynow.org -- Tuesday Feb. 21, 2006 show for audio and text of the speech.

[Arcadia]

39 years old, with brain, handsome and dead. What a waste...!

[stilltrucking]

He walked the walk. He was a profile in courage.

I wish he was still with us. America needs his voice more than ever.. We got a lot of chickens heading home to roost.

However, when asked to comment upon the assassination, he replied that it was a case of "chickens coming home to roost" — that the violence that Kennedy had failed to stop (and at times refused to rein in) had come around to claim his life. Most explosively, he then added that with his country origins, "Chickens coming home to roost never made me sad. It only made me glad."

On May 21, 1964, he returned to the United States as a traditional Sunni Muslim (and with a new name — El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X

In 1964, he started the more peaceful Organization of Afro American Unity.