Brother Malcolm: Letter from Mecca

[McCamy Taylor]

Media lies about Democratic presidential candidates are as inevitable as death and taxes (the latter for the middle class). The nature of the media lie for Obama was also inevitable. His race combined with his name and the current vilification of all things Islamic meant that the fictional narrative would go something like “Obama is a Black Muslim.” On its surface, this would mean simply he is Black and his father and stepfather were Muslims . However the phrase Black Muslim conjures up something much more in the minds of White Americans. It is used by the establishment to raise the specter of race riots, angry Black men, anti Semitism. All but the last have been used for over one hundred years to justify the oppression of African-Americans. Systematic oppression, Jim Crow laws, denial of the vote, segregation. And virtually systematic violence, public lynchings that claimed the lives of thousands of Black Americans, sometimes wiping out whole communities in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

http://www.ngbiwm.com/Exhibits/Lynching%20in%20the%20United%20States%20-%20Wikipedia,%20the%20free%20encyclopedia_files/300px-Lynching-of-lige-daniels.jpg

The above is a postcard. Whites would send these to their friends and family members to show how they spent their free time. Children were encouraged to attend these lynchings, which were treated as public celebrations. This is the very dark, very nasty underbelly of the United States into which Malcolm Little was born. His father, politically active in the cause for African-American rights was almost certainly murdered by White supremacists, causing the disintegration of his family. He struggled to succeed in whatever way society would allow him---mostly criminal endeavors---before he discovered his political calling.

What does any of this have to do with Obama? Nothing, really, but the corporate media wants you to see Obama and think Malcolm X. Not the real, historic Brother Malcolm. Malcolm X, the bogey man.



Brother Malcolm joined the Nation of Islam also known as the Black Muslims. For years, he called the White Man a devil, as one poster at DU has reminded us today, entirely out of context


Malcolm X - "I charge the white man"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2725300&mesg_id=2725300

I charge him. I charge him with being the greatest kidnapper on this earth. I charge him with being the greatest murderer on this earth. I charge him with being the greatest robber and enslaver on this earth. I charge the white man with being the greatest swine-eater on this earth, the greatest drunkard on this earth.

Oooo. Scary. Or maybe not so scary.This post would make a lot more sense if we knew that just last week an online business rag published on outrageous article in which it claimed that Obama was a secret member of a plot of take over the United States by Blacks and Muslims.

“Obama is a Black Muslim” joins “Hillary is a Bitch” and “Edwards is a Phony”: More Media Lies

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy%20Taylor/124

From Investor's Business Daily's Editorials:

"Obama's "unashamedly black" church preaches the politics of black nationalism…. Wright once traveled to Libya with black supremacist Louis Farrakhan to meet with terrorist leader Muammar Qaddafi. Last year at a Chicago gala, Wright honored his old pal Farrakhan, who's fond of calling whites "blue-eyed devils," for lifetime achievement."

("Unashamedly black"! Imagine that! What is the world coming to if the Blacks have no shame about their skin pigment?)

That DU post I mention above would be even less scary if the author went on the tell the story of how Brother Malcolm went to Mecca in 1964 and experienced a revelation as he encountered Caucasians from countries outside the United States.

http://members.aol.com/klove01/meccaltr.htm

From “Letter from Mecca”

There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue eyed blonds to black skin Africans. But we were all participating in the same rituals, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had lead me to believe never could exist between the white and non-white.

Snip

You may be shocked by these words coming from me. But on this pilgrimage, what I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to re-arrange much of my thought patterns previously held, and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions. This was not too difficult for me. Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experiences and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.
During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the same bed, (or on the same rug) -- while praying to the same God -- with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the same words and in the actions and in the deeds of the 'white' Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan and Ghana.
Snip

With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called 'Christian' white American heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem. Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster -- the same destruction brought upon Germany by racism that eventually destroyed the Germans themselves.
Each hour here in the Holy Land enables me to have greater spiritual insights into what is happening in America between black and white. The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities -- he is only reacting to four hundred years of conscious racism of the American whites. But as racism leads America up the suicide path, I do believe, from the experience that I have had with them, that the whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth -- the only way left to America to ward off the disaster that racism inevitably must lead to.

Not scary. Not scary at all—except to our corporate masters who want to keep their working class divided and conquered. To them, Brother Malcolm’s words of reconciliation probably sounded very scary indeed. That is why they killed him. And that is why you will not hear or read many people recount them as they attempt to weave the "Obama is a Black Muslim" narrative. Because if you know the full story of Brother Malcolm, then being Black and being Muslim does not sound so bad at all.

Oh, and remember that White girl from the Spike Lee movie, the one that made all the White folks in the audience so uncomfortable when Malcolm X told her that there was nothing she could do to help bring Whites and Blacks together? Here is what he said about her years later:

"I realized racism isn't just a black and white problem. It's brought bloodbaths to about every nation on earth at one time or another. Brother, remember the time that white college girl came into the restaurant — the one who wanted to help the Muslims and the whites get together — and I told her there wasn't a ghost of a chance and she went away crying? Well, I've lived to regret that incident. In many parts of the African continent I saw white students helping black people. Something like this kills a lot of argument. I did many things as a Muslim that I'm sorry for now. I was a zombie then — like all Muslims — I was hypnotized, pointed in a certain direction and told to march. Well, I guess a man's entitled to make a fool of himself if he's ready to pay the cost. It cost me 12 years. That was a bad scene, brother. The sickness and madness of those days — I'm glad to be free of them."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X

Here is a video on YouTube, called “Brother Malcolm”. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EkctTuhrE8

And never forget Solidarity!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. My brother Malcolm realized the Unity

that is shown by the Hajj every year. When one realizes the meaning of the term "La illaha il Allah" (there is nothing save God), one cannot raise distinctions and differences.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

2. The fear mongering is still a frequently utilized tool.

But, once you acknowledge it, you are affected in terms of the outrage it provokes against those using it. I just hope I am correct in believing far more people than ever before ARE acknowledging such an aweful, anti-democratic and seriously corrupt means of manipulation. I hope.

[msongs]

3. sorry Mr. X, but some muslims can be just as racist as anybody else nt

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Not on Hajj

that is haram.

[umtalal]

5. Sin=Haram.

Not everyone knows what you are talking about.

[madrchsod]

6. solidarity?

you speak of things long ago in a land far away when the power was with the people....we can no longer speak of such things today


we must

[McCamy Taylor]

7. The power is always with the people. "We are lead to believe a lie

when we see with not through the eye." William Blake.

Do not believe what you are told or what you are shown. Believe what must be true. If every single qualified voter in this country educated themselves on the issues and went to the polls, David Rockefeller and his kind would reckon it the end of the world as they know it.

[H2O Man]

8. Great post.

Malcolm was a great American.

Nominated.

[Orwellian_Ghost]

9. Until people

are ready to discuss this openly and unfettered we will spiral willy-nilly in the American body politic.

Platitudes don't get it, take us only deeper into denial and confusion.

Great post!

K&R

[bleever]

10. This was an illuminating post

for me. The kind of education and reading that makes DU such a good place to learn.

[pberq]

11. Thank you for posting this!

The letter from Mecca the single most important thing to remember about Malcolm X.

It was not until after he had this revelation in Mecca that he was killed.