I could care less about Malcolm X

Submitted by Peter Herz (United States), May 22, 2009 at 15:08

Since someone mentioned Malcolm X and his assassination by the henchmen of "Calypso Louie" (for real?), I wonder why Malcolm X became an American icon. His autobiography screams about Christianity as the slave owner's religion, but he himself bought into the slave raider's religion--and the religion which abolished slavery only because Christian powers practiced a bit of gunboat diplomacy on them! Frankly, I think Malcolm X was a combination of con-man and dupe.

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