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Originally Posted by pan6467
...We need more men like George Foreman, MLK, later Malcolm X, Clarence Thomas', Colin Powells, and so on that get out there and will take up the cause in POSITIVE ways. Not keep reopening wounds, promote hated and preach ignorance so they can stay in power.
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Hold on, Malcolm X? As in this Malcolm X?
Malcolm X, the militant radical who said things like:
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Originally Posted by Malcolm X
You can't have capitalism without racism....
...Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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Originally Posted by Malcolm X
If you're afraid of black nationalism, you're afraid of revolution. And if you love revolution, you love black nationalism.
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Originally Posted by Malcolm X
This modern house Negro loves his master. He wants to live near him. He'll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live near his master...
...You're nothing but a house Negro. And if someone comes to you right now and says, "Let's separate," you say the same thing that the house Negro said on the plantation. "What you mean, separate? From America, this good white man? Where you going to get a better job than you get here?" I mean, this is what you say. "I ain't left nothing in Africa," that's what you say. Why, you left your mind in Africa.
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All quotes sourced from late 1964 or 1965, within months of his death.
I'm not going to argue your other examples, but is this really a man you want to hold up as an example of peace and racial tolerance?
Compare this to Dr. Martin Luther King, who in his most famous speech said things like:
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Originally Posted by Martin Luther King
...I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."
...I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character...
...I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will they be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood...
...We can not walk alone...
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Do you see the contrast here?