On May 6, 10:13=A0am, Chemical Ali <kink...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> =A0"There are many people being murdered in the U.S. every day. =A0Is
that=
> =A0anything unusual?"
>
> When was the last time you heard of a U.S. citizen on American soil
> being murdered for advocating freedom or democratic ideals?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X
Malcolm X,
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 =96 February 21, 1965),
also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz,[1] was an American Black
Muslim minister and a spokesman for the Nation of Islam.
After leaving the Nation of Islam in 1964, he made the pilgrimage, the
Hajj, to Mecca and became a Sunni Muslim. He also founded the Muslim
Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. Less than a
year later, he was assassinated in Wa****ngton Heights on the first day
of National Brotherhood Week.
Historian Robin D.G. Kelley wrote, "Malcolm X has been called many
things: Pan-Africanist, father of Black Power, religious fanatic,
closet conservative, incipient socialist, and a menace to society. The
meaning of his public life =97 his politics and ideology =97 is contested
in part because his entire body of work consists of a few dozen
speeches and a collaborative autobiography whose veracity is
challenged. Malcolm has become a sort of tabula rasa, or blank slate,
on which people of different positions can write their own
interpretations of his politics and legacy. Chuck D of the rap group
Public Enemy and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas can both
declare Malcolm X their hero."[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers
Medgar Evers was born on July 2, 1925 in Decatur, Mississippi. In
1943, Evers, then 17, dropped out of high school to enlist in the army
with his older brother Charlie[1] . Evers fought in the European
Theatre of WWII and was honorably discharged in 1945 as a Sergeant. In
1946, having returned to his hometown, Evers, along with his brother
and four friends, registered to vote in a local election. On voting
day, however, local white citizens used intimidation to prevent Evers
and the others from casting their votes. He recounts this moment in
his autobiography:
When we got to the courthouse, the clerk said he wanted to talk with
us. When we got into his office, some 15 or 20 armed white men surged
in behind us, men I had grown up with, had played with. We split up
and went home. Around town, Negroes said we had been whipped, beaten
up and run out of town. Well, in a way we were whipped, I guess, but I
made up my mind then that it would not be like that again=97at least not
for me. I was committed, in a way, to change things.[1]
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