A Changed Man...Malcom X

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." -Malcom X

The true story of Malcom X irrespective of what one thinks about him was his ability to change and stand up even unto death to pursue justice.

One can only imagine the anger and frustration,he had to go through.

I admire Malcolm X not for what the media and t-shirts try to portray him, but for the man he became.

Below is a piece into Malcom X change
from a fundemtalist toa moderate Muslim.

Maybe as we fight Islamofacism his life can tell us
a little bit about the struggle from fundemtalist Islam
to a more tolerant Islam.


On May 21, 1964, he returned to the United States as a traditional Sunni Muslim (and with a new name — El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz).

When Malcolm returned to the United States, he gave a speech about his visit. This time he gave a much larger meaning and message than before. The speech was not only for the Muslims, instead it was for the whole nation and for all races. He said,

"Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth."

"In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I will never be guilty of that again as I know now that some white people are truly sincere, that some truly are capable of being brotherly toward a black man. The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks."

"Since I learned the truth in Mecca my dearest friends have come to include all kinds some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, socialists, and communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!"

Along with A. Peter Bailey and others, El-Shabazz then founded the U. S. branch of the Organization of Afro-American Unity. Patterned after the Organization of African Unity (OAU), Africa's continental organization, which was established at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in May 1963, the OAAU resolved to establish a non-religious and non-sectarian program for human rights. The OAAU included all people of African ancestry in the Western Hemisphere, as well as those on the African continent.

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