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Doc_Sonar 66M
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4/21/2014 6:48 pm



I liked X, U_T...

just as I liked ANY Man of Color that spoke his truth loudly. We were historically 'taught' to be quiet and passive.

Although, after his visit to Mecca, where he dropped the hatred rhetoric and split from Elijah Muhammad and the NOI, I LOVED him.

While is pre-Mecca quotes are more widely known (reviled) I like the post visit ones much better.
It reflected what he had become.


"I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color."

"I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

"I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

"Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth."
~-Malcolm X

And I watched these because of your post, as well U_T.
hard to believe this was almost 50 years ago, when our Prince was taken. He, like you, (like ME) was mellowing with age...


Malcolm X/After Returning From Mecca - watch?v=tuHYZdf-ad0
Ossie Davis/Eulogy for Malcolm X - watch?v=L2PQ3XY_j2E

Thank you for the memories and the reminder,
RTYOs'
YUT
BD~
P
xoxos

Doc_Sonar

I advocate Simplicity, Patience & Compassion...to the extent that doing so won't threaten or harm My boundaries or Me. ~ Doc_Sonar


Breathe Deeply~
Peace



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