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 Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 3:21 pm
Angel_Brown Interesting note: Malcolm's old 'stomping grounds' before he turned his life around were right in and near my hometown of Roxbury, MA. Interesting personal note: I was caught under the table at school at age 7 reading his autobiography. I got in trouble because it was recess - I was supposed to be playing hopscotch or something. rolleyes
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:34 pm
Pink Haze Angel_Brown Interesting note: Malcolm's old 'stomping grounds' before he turned his life around were right in and near my hometown of Roxbury, MA. Interesting personal note: I was caught under the table at school at age 7 reading his autobiography. I got in trouble because it was recess - I was supposed to be playing hopscotch or something. rolleyes 2 Days? wow, you must have alot of free time...it took me about a week reading off and on
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 1:16 pm
Black_Ronin Pink Haze Angel_Brown Interesting note: Malcolm's old 'stomping grounds' before he turned his life around were right in and near my hometown of Roxbury, MA. Interesting personal note: I was caught under the table at school at age 7 reading his autobiography. I got in trouble because it was recess - I was supposed to be playing hopscotch or something. rolleyes 2 Days? wow, you must have alot of free time...it took me about a week reading off and on
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 7:40 pm
Pink Haze Black_Ronin Pink Haze Angel_Brown Interesting note: Malcolm's old 'stomping grounds' before he turned his life around were right in and near my hometown of Roxbury, MA. Interesting personal note: I was caught under the table at school at age 7 reading his autobiography. I got in trouble because it was recess - I was supposed to be playing hopscotch or something. rolleyes 2 Days? wow, you must have alot of free time...it took me about a week reading off and on no no, of course not........ sweatdrop ..... ninja
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 5:57 am
Black_Ronin Pink Haze Angel_Brown Interesting note: Malcolm's old 'stomping grounds' before he turned his life around were right in and near my hometown of Roxbury, MA. Interesting personal note: I was caught under the table at school at age 7 reading his autobiography. I got in trouble because it was recess - I was supposed to be playing hopscotch or something. rolleyes 2 Days? wow, you must have alot of free time...it took me about a week reading off and on nah - he just reads fast - i do too; took me about 2 days, too, although most books take me less than a day. the Harry Potter books take me about a day to finish, when i'm not otherwise busy. yeah, i said Harry Potter, so what? stare
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 2:08 pm
Angel_Brown Black_Ronin Pink Haze Angel_Brown Interesting note: Malcolm's old 'stomping grounds' before he turned his life around were right in and near my hometown of Roxbury, MA. Interesting personal note: I was caught under the table at school at age 7 reading his autobiography. I got in trouble because it was recess - I was supposed to be playing hopscotch or something. rolleyes 2 Days? wow, you must have alot of free time...it took me about a week reading off and on nah - he just reads fast - i do too; took me about 2 days, too, although most books take me less than a day. the Harry Potter books take me about a day to finish, when i'm not otherwise busy. yeah, i said Harry Potter, so what? stare
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:57 pm
Angel_Brown Black_Ronin Pink Haze Angel_Brown Interesting note: Malcolm's old 'stomping grounds' before he turned his life around were right in and near my hometown of Roxbury, MA. Interesting personal note: I was caught under the table at school at age 7 reading his autobiography. I got in trouble because it was recess - I was supposed to be playing hopscotch or something. rolleyes 2 Days? wow, you must have alot of free time...it took me about a week reading off and on nah - he just reads fast - i do too; took me about 2 days, too, although most books take me less than a day. the Harry Potter books take me about a day to finish, when i'm not otherwise busy. yeah, i said Harry Potter, so what? stare it took me three hours xd this thread should be stickified by the time there are a lot of threads of
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:44 pm
VeryHungry_Pie-raider this thread should be stickified by the time there are a lot of threads of
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:38 pm
Pink Haze Malcolm X!
BIOGRAPHY
Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother, Louise Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the family's eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Earl's civil rights activism prompted death threats from the white supremacist organization Black Legion, forcing the family to relocate twice before Malcolm's fourth birthday.
Regardless of the Little's efforts to elude the Legion, in 1929 their Lansing, Michigan home was burned to the ground. Two years later, Earl's body was found lying across the town's trolley tracks. Police ruled both incidents as accidents, but the Little's were certain that members of the Black Legion were responsible. Louise suffered emotional breakdown several years after the death of her husband and was committed to a mental institution. Her children were split up amongst various foster homes and orphanages.
Growing up
Malcolm was a smart, focused student. He graduated from junior high at the top of his class. However, when a favorite teacher told Malcolm his dream of becoming a lawyer was "no realistic goal for a ******," Malcolm lost interest in school. He dropped out, spent some time in Boston, Massachusetts working various odd jobs, and then traveled to Harlem, New York where he committed petty crimes. By 1942 Malcolm was coordinating various narcotics, prostitution and gambling rings.
Eventually Malcolm and his buddy, Malcolm "Shorty" Jarvis, moved back to Boston. In 1946 they were arrested and convicted on burglary charges, and Malcolm was sentenced to 10 years in prison. (He was paroled after serving seven years.) Recalling his days in school, he used the time to further his education. It was during this period of self-enlightenment that Malcolm's brother Reginald would visit and discuss his recent conversion to the Muslim religion. Reginald belonged to the religious organization the Nation of Islam (NOI).
Intrigued, Malcolm began to study the teachings of NOI leader Elijah Muhammad. Muhammad taught that white society actively worked to keep African-Americans from empowering themselves and achieving political, economic and social success. Among other goals, the NOI fought for a state of their own, separate from one inhabited by white people. By the time he was paroled in 1952, Malcolm was a devoted follower with the new surname "X." (He considered "Little" a slave name and chose the "X" to signify his lost tribal name.)
Heres a little bit of stuff.. I'm reading his auto. Its deep. Malcolm X is the man, seriously the reason because we don't learn about him is because he spoke the damn truth and "they" don't want us to know all that.
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:19 pm
hasanati_esinam Malcolm X is the man, seriously the reason because we don't learn about him is because he spoke the damn truth and "they" don't want us to know all that.
But yeah I know what your saying, I asked this one chick in school if she knew who Malcolm X was she was like "Malcolm who?" When I made a big deal about it everyone was like "Omigod shut up already."
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:36 am
Pink Haze hasanati_esinam Malcolm X is the man, seriously the reason because we don't learn about him is because he spoke the damn truth and "they" don't want us to know all that.
But yeah I know what your saying, I asked this one chick in school if she knew who Malcolm X was she was like "Malcolm who?" When I made a big deal about it everyone was like "Omigod shut up already."that just goes to show you that not only do Black people not know their history, they're being taught not to care, either. makes me sad, since these are often the same people who talk trash about racism, and file a law suit of some kind eventually over something that's either trivial or never happened, making the educated of us look like a**holes.
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 8:45 am
[I think it's inspiring to think about more "recent" black people who may be talked about in the future, too. I used to dislike Akon, for example. But then I read an article about him in Vibe magazine's November 2005 issue (yes, the one with wanna-be hard Bow Wow and sickeningly adorable Ciara on the cover). xp People look up to him where he's from (Senegal, Africa), and I now see why. 3nodding ]
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 9:01 am
Pink Haze sneaky_kogome64 in february- black history month, we learned about..martin luther king.was his home stationed in houston texas? I could have sworn it was in Georgia... cause when I went there, we went to his old house, which was a museum...
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 9:04 am
Pink Haze Angel_Brown Black_Ronin Pink Haze Angel_Brown Interesting note: Malcolm's old 'stomping grounds' before he turned his life around were right in and near my hometown of Roxbury, MA. Interesting personal note: I was caught under the table at school at age 7 reading his autobiography. I got in trouble because it was recess - I was supposed to be playing hopscotch or something. rolleyes 2 Days? wow, you must have alot of free time...it took me about a week reading off and on nah - he just reads fast - i do too; took me about 2 days, too, although most books take me less than a day. the Harry Potter books take me about a day to finish, when i'm not otherwise busy. yeah, i said Harry Potter, so what? stare There's nothing wrong with Harry Potter... At least that's what I tell myself. razz *Sits and reads the book until Im finished...*
And I was most def at the movies on Thursday night at midnight to see the first showing of the movie.
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 5:42 pm
Passion_Dragon [I think it's inspiring to think about more "recent" black people who may be talked about in the future, too. I used to dislike Akon, for example. But then I read an article about him in Vibe magazine's November 2005 issue (yes, the one with wanna-be hard Bow Wow and sickeningly adorable Ciara on the cover). xp People look up to him where he's from (Senegal, Africa), and I now see why. 3nodding ]
haven't stopped by this thread in a while...
Akon has a lot to say, but somehow, our people don't want to hear it unless it has a good beat. i think my generation has a lot to do with it, since i know i tend to not discuss such things as much as my mother did, while being astounded at how little my kids know about Black History.
My cousin's husband is from Senegal, and he talks about it often. I'm stunned sometimes, just listening to him, and realizing that in what is supposed to be the richest, free-est (sp?) country in the world, how woefully ignorant we as a people are about our own history.
Snippets: Sakanouye Tamura Maro, a Black man, became the first Shogun of Japan. This is written off by many historians, who nitpick by saying he was 'Negrito' and not a Black African, but if this is true, then why does the kinky hair and Black skin resemble so much that of the Black African who migrated all over the globe during prehistory, from the coasts of Africa and back again?
HINT: find a book called "Distinguished Negroes Abroad," by Beatrice J. Fleming and Marion J. Pryde and find the chapter called, "The Negro General of Japan--Sakanouye Tamurarmaro." Also, anthropologist Alexander Francis Chamberlain wrote an essay entitled, "The Contribution of the Negro to Human Civilization."
King Memnon (of Ethiopia), who fought at Troy, was described as having been "black as ebony, and the handsomest man alive". The Black Knight really was a Black man.
And all they tell our kids is that we were ignorant savages until they came and enslaved us, and gave us a reason to want to be better.
Little did they know, but we already were.
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