Malcolm X and Kwame Nkrumah in Harlem, NY, in 1960. Nkrumah's revolutionary Pan-African government was overthrown within a year and three days of Malcolm's assassination, but these revisionist scholars and their supporters, would have you believe all of this, and much more, is unrelated and a coincidence Netflix recently released the above titled docu-series. The six episode series details the efforts by an African named Abdul Rahman Muhammad to fulfill his ambition of finding out who was behind the February 21, 1965 assassination of El Hajj Malik Shabazz – Malcolm X. Although the series does its best to suggest that no one has ever had the determination to match Muhammad’s focus on getting to the bottom of this crime, the reality is that plenty of people have explored this question before Muhammad’s docu-series. There have been a number of books that have been written on this topic. George Brietman released “The Assassination of Malcolm X” in 1967. I first read this book in 1979. In 1992, Karl Evanzz released “The Judas Factor; The Plot to Kill Malcolm X.” There are many, many others. And most of them, most notably Brietman and Evanzz’s works, go much deeper with much more critical analysis than Muhammad’s docu-series.
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2/16/2020 08:34:51 pm
Brother Ahjamu Umi raises some legitimate criticisms, however I agree with Malcolm X researcher Bro. Omar Shabazz who produced a critical review of the Netflix documentary and still encourages people to see it.
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Zenzele Bell
2/17/2020 01:27:42 pm
THANK YOU on all points. While some "already know" what really happened, there are also a whole lot of us who have no idea, and "it's been done before" is no justification for not putting out a documentary. Additionally, it's not as if the previous publications have been distributed to the masses who were born after 1965. Don't assume that, just because you wrote it, I read it, or even knew it existed, and I won't even go into the fact that a big reason Black revolutionary movements (at least in the US) failed, is because uber-conscious elders spent way too much time looking down their noses at anybody they didn't deem "conscious enough), instead of considering that nobody was born a freedom fighter - it's a process.
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AD
2/17/2020 02:17:34 pm
this was heat. ^^^^^ Leave a Reply. |
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