Malcolm X on the Press

[Pharaoh]

[leveymg]

1. 5th for Malcolm.

[leftstreet]

2. K&R

[Matariki]

3. 6 rec and kick

[Electric Monk]

4. k&r plus a link to some other interesting and relevant quotes

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2039023

[tavalon]

5. This is a favorite strategy of the oligarchy as well

It has served them well for a long time. Maybe, just maybe, the 99% are going to get it. And if they do, the 1% is really gonna get it.

(I had been using 98% and 2% but since the 99/1 seems to be gaining legs, I'm willing to stay on message in that aspect. A few oligarchs get lumped in with us, but if they're smart, they'll throw their money and their support behind us)

[Major Nikon]

6. It's really the .01%

[progressoid]

7. And we weren't careful.

k/r

[ixion]

8. k/r

[Scuba]

9. Or as Dorothy said...

“The heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of a press, but the unofficial censorship by a press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.”

Dorothy L. Sayers
1893-1957

British writer, essayist, playwright and translator.

[MichiganVote]

10. Malcolm always called em'

[Number23]

11. He also said this about white liberals

"The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative.

Both want power, but the white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro’s friend and benefactor; and by winning the friendship, allegiance, and support of the Negro, the white liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or tool in this political “football game” that is constantly raging between the white liberals and white conservatives."

http://faithinactiononline.com/2008/06/malcolm-x-on-white-liberals/

Wonder if this will statement will get as many props? Particularly as we've seen lately that any discussion of white liberal racism is verboten?

[TBF]

13. I think Malcolm may have a point there -

to be clear I don't think all criticism of Mr. Obama is racism, but I do think there is white liberal racism out there and a fair topic for discussion.

[Number23]

16. I absolutely agree

And to be honest with you, I think this is clearly what MHP was trying to convey in her article that started such a furor recently.

[H2O Man]

14. To be fair,

Malcolm's views on white people evolved. His views on the media were always right on target.

I suspect that your intentions were not to be fair, however; rather, just an attempt to stir a pot.

[Number23]

17. Some could argue his views on white people were always right on target

But I figured someone would jump up to say that his quotes are all right on the money, except the 400 million he made about how deceitful white people were. lol

He did change his opinions on white people for the most part. But I would wager based on some of your comments that he did not "evolve" to use your very telling phrase nearly as much as you seem to desperately need to believe that he did.

[Pharaoh]

18. Well that is just

stereotyping. Like people do about race etc................I can't imagine MX said that. I mean, I'm a liberal but I certainly don't resemble that remark.

[TBF]

12. K&R nt

[H2O Man]

15. Recommendation #31

Thanks for this.