Malcolm X - Interview At Berkeley (1963)
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Length: 40min 57sec (2457 seconds)
Published: Mon Jun 11 2018
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Malcolm was a real one ✊
His analysis of white liberals. The man had x-ray vision!
I was just rewatching Fresh Prince a while ago, and can anybody remember when they 'tackled' Malcolm X? Something annoyed me about it then (with Vivian giving the rest of the whole of the rich white class flying colors on the project prior to this), and yeah, it still rubs me up the wrong way for some reason.
Sorry, yeah, I know it's kind of a non-sequitur, but whatever. It just felt like their socialist teachings were (and are still) being appropriated by a rich primarily white establishment (and you only need to look at the comments underneath that clip to see evidence of). I guess I'm just trying to make a point of how the teachings of guys like MLK and X have been hijacked over the years.
Well this is an interesting choice. Malcolm X was one of the most significant American public intellectuals of the 20th century, in my opinion THE most brilliant and significant, and he was an autodidact. He is a genuine radical. Much of what he says in this video is completely relevant in 2018.
On the other hand this video is firmly from his early phase when he treated Elijah Muhammed (a cult leader who took sexual advantage of women and financial advantage of his followers in general) as his father, brother, lord, and savior. NOI was not and is not a leftist organization (although it had a bit more left character in some ways in the 1960s because it had absorbed a lot of Black Nationalists to grow its ranks). It is reactionary.
Malcolm X after his pilgrimage to Mecca converted to Sunni Islam and rejected a lot of NOI's reactionary beliefs, including his opposition to racial integration that he talks about in this video.