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- From: klm3298@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (K-Mello SGP '92)
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- Subject: Re: Malcolm X - Don't be IGNORANT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.084243.10938@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 08:42:43 GMT
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- In article <1e8j65INNig@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, marko@wpi.WPI.EDU (Mark Steven Adamowicz) writes:
- >
- >I think with all this talk about Malcolm X the main thing to keep in mind is:
- >
- > DON'T JUST PUT THE X ON YOUR HEAD, PUT IT IN YOUR HEAD
- >
- >I can't count the number of suckers I have seen sportin' the X cap who I know
- >don't know shit about the man or his message. I have read at least 20+ books
- >on the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X, and the Black Panthers. I even chose to do
- >my SUFFICIENCY, which is 25 page research paper on the Black Muslims. The only
- >Malcolm X thing I own is a shirt I bought 2.5 years ago (at least) when it
- >wasn't "cool" yet to wear his stuff. I am white and I still see the messages
- >of Malcolm overlooked by whites as well. Racism taught Racism and only by
- >totally denouncing it (ie Black Supremacy is wrong as well) can one start to
- >stop ALL forms of racism and start to improve humanity. Wear the Hat, buy the
- >clothes but at least read his Autobiography and if you want to know about the
- >way Malcolm REALLY thought his lasy days, pick "The last year of Malcom X"
- >See you at the movies........marko@wpi.wpi.edu
- >
- >
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- Word!
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- K-Mello
- SHYGUY Productions '92
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