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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 07:40:15 EST
- From: <KRB104@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92324.074015KRB104@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.discrimination
- Subject: Re: Go see X
- References: <92323.081153KRB104@psuvm.psu.edu>
- <1992Nov18.215126.3593@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
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- The extended quotation in the last post with regard to the movie "X" is
- puzzling. Is the poster making a point that some Black people do not find
- El-Haijj Malik Shabazz a character to be studied or revered? If so, then that
- is ludicrous. Of course there are Black people who find Malcolm X appalling
- (as well as those who find MLK unappealing). People must realize that Black
- people are not of one mind, we all have brains and chose to use them as we
- see fit. It would be like making a point of saying that not all white people
- like Bill Clinton, George bush or David Duke. Of course we know this is true,
- and the same is true of Black people. This is like the media's infatuation
- with the fact that all political questions that deal with Blacks must go
- through or about Jesse Jackson. There are those of us who dislike JJ, but
- the media has crowned him the head of the Black political establishment.
- But to my original post. Though I highly respect both Thurgood Marshall and
- Doug Wilder, their comdemnation of Malcolm X is not a reason for people to go
- see the movie. As I said, this movie is for all people to get an understanding
- of a man that a lot of Americans do revere.
- Kevin
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