Thursday, February 18, 2016

Malcolm X Was Right About America (from @Truthdig)

Malcolm X Was Right About America (from @Truthdig): The civil rights leader, assassinated 50 years ago this month, knew that empire cannot be reformed—it must be destroyed.
- 2015/02/01
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Tim Nolan said...

NEW YORK—Malcolm X, unlike Martin Luther King Jr., did not believe America had a conscience. For him there was no great tension between the lofty ideals of the nation—which he said were a sham—and the failure to deliver justice to blacks. He, perhaps better than King, understood the inner workings of empire. He had no hope that those who managed empire would ever get in touch with their better selves to build a country free of exploitation and injustice. He argued that from the arrival of the first slave ship to the appearance of our vast archipelago of prisons and our squalid, urban internal colonies where the poor are trapped and abused, the American empire was unrelentingly hostile to those Frantz Fanon called “the wretched of the earth.” This, Malcolm knew, would not change until the empire was destroyed.

February 18, 2016 at 9:57 PM

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