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- From: grendel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alyosha Bourgea)
- Subject: Re: Malcom the Tenth
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 19:29:16 GMT
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- In <1500@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> libwca@emory.edu (Bill Anderson) writes:
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- >greg@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu (Greg Trotter) writes:
- >:
- >: You are correct. Lee is not a racist on the same level with Helms. But
- >: Malcolm X was. We can thank (?) Lee for not bringing that racist attitude
- >: into the 90s with his film.
-
- >Malcolm was a racist at one point, undoubtedly. However, it's
- >silly to equate his racism with that of Jesse Helms; the latter's
- >racism is based on unthinking dogmatism and unwarrented feelings of
- >superiority, while the former's was based on experience. Not that
- >that justifies anything, but the two viewpoints are not the same.
- >At any rate, by the time of his death Malcolm had rejected racism,
- >as you would know if you knew anything about the man at all. I
- >suggest that you read "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" and pay
- >attention to what the man had to say before forming opinions of
- >him.
-
- Actually, I have read about Malcolm X, and I know that by the time of his
- death he was not a racist. I respect him considerably for that. However,
- a great deal of the legacy he left behind was racist in nature, just as
- a great deal of the legacy Spike Lee (a basically intelligent filmmaker)
- is leaving behind is racist in nature.
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