Missing Malcom X

[ish mailian]

Dragging/Drugging  Malcom into the White Visitation, color into its
absence, is, ironically, another full circle, a rainbow.

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 6:31 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> And, as a middle-class white boy once said to me:
> "The Autobiography of Malcolm X scared the shit out of me"....
>
> Another Pynchonian resonance?
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 6:06 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What makes Malcolm different from every signature Black figure in
>> American history is that he combines the two central characters of
>> Black folk culture. He is both the trickster and the minister. He’s
>> both. That’s “Detroit Red”—the hustler, the gambler, the outlaw. And,
>> he is also the minister who saves souls, who redeems lives, who heals
>> the sick, who raises the dead. He’s both. King is one. Jesse Jackson
>> is one. Malcolm’s both and he understood the streets and the lumpen
>> proletariat. I hate that phrase, but it comes from Marx. As well as,
>> he saw himself as a minister and an Amun, a cleric. He was always
>> this. And he embodied the cultural spirit of Black folk better than
>> anyone else. When I asked one student about a decade ago, “What was
>> the fundamental difference between Malcolm and Martin?” He said, “Dr.
>> Marable, that’s easy. Martin Luther King, Jr., belongs to the entire
>> world. Malcolm X belongs to us.” There is a tremendous degree of
>> identification on the part of people of African descent, and globally
>> on the part of Muslims, invested in the figure of Malcolm.
>>
>> http://isreview.org/issue/63/missing-malcolm
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