Comments by "SantomPh" (@SantomPh) on "Malcolm X: The Defender of Human Rights" video.

  1. he never preached open warfare against the white man, he did advocate for black men and women to learn self-defense and to learn how to use firearms in a rifle club. During his tenure in the NOI no one under his wing actively went out to harm anyone. If he mentioned that in his debates and speeches it was always in context and historical fact. Read his autobiography to see how he framed his words.
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  2. Malcolm had a dislike of most civil rights leaders because he saw them as trying to appease the white leadership and being coddled by Uncle Toms, using titles like Dr or Reverend Dr to gain positions without actually doing much- he wasn't referring to Martin Luther King in particular but it was surely aimed at similar civil rights leader.
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  3. with the help of the feds, no doubt.
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  4. Sadly they only ever met for 2 minutes in 1962, it would have been an interesting partnership.
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  5. racism is everywhere. Malcolm said that the Southern man was just more open about it while the Northern man tries to sound dignified and refined but utterly remained the same as his southern cousin inside. Even during the Civil War Lincoln had to force many Northern states to stay in the Union despite their own treatment of the black man, using methods like military occupation, suspension of habeas corpus and conscription. Maryland and Kentucky were pro-slavery but anti Confederate, while in New York draft riots in 1863 targeted black men. J Edgar Hoover ,the most racist director of the FBI in existence was a Washington DC resident.
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  6.  @youseffsoliman5711  we know you were an accident
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  7. 9.30 Malcolm later realized that the NOI's "prayers" were nothing like actual Islamic prayers. An actual Muslim inmate gave him some Quranic verses to read but he did not read them until much later after he left NOI. Video also ignored his upbringing in Boston, where he learned his criminal trade and networked via his day job at the railroad.
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  8. Malcolm ,with the help of "Roots" writer Alex Haley wrote his autobiography which is the core of this video.
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  9. it took him a long time to convert to orthodox Islam, the incident with the secretaries was just the beginning. Elijah thought Malcolm would supplant him and even kill him. He remembered some verses a Muslim man gave him in prison that he still kept. He sought out his sister Ella who had also become a Muslim and some Muslim students in New York came up to him after his campus speeches and came up to him to encourage him to learn more about actual Islam. He was particularly impressed by North Africans who seemingly passed for white but strongly identified more with Islam's teachings. . With Ella and Betty's help he made the journey, first to Egypt (something the video omits) where even the pilots recognized him and he was shocked to see black men in pilot uniforms flying a plane. Even in Saudi Arabia he was nearly kicked out because of his American passport, requiring a court judge and a letter from an important Saudi diplomat in the USA to enter, now as a guest of the King himself. The experience taught him how to actually pray and recite the verses.
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