Parable ofMalcolm's Killer
He was rewarded for his dastardlycrime by a dastardly society universally known for murder and mayhem.Why wouldn't he be rewarded with his freedom after killing one ofAmerica's most dangerous men, simply because he spoke the truth, the lowdown dirty truth about America, her dirty linen, her funky drawers, herbloody cum filled panties. Yes, Malcolm told it all, in the traditionof David Walker, Henry Highland Garnett, Garvey, DuBois, and of courseMalcolm's teacher, Elijah Muhammad.
Why wouldn't America free thekiller of Malcolm? He silenced Big Red, the main man screaming in thebelly of the beast. You gave him a stamp, a movie, streets and schoolsnamed after him, yet you disrespect him by freeing his cold bloodedkiller, who slaughtered him in front of his wife and children.
Yes,the killer walked. He shall get a book contract and make millions asthe man who slew the King, Malik, also called our black shining prince, atroubled warrior who defied his teacher that taught him trust no one,not even Elijah himself.
Listen to your teacher, don't defy him.He taught you security. Yet agents were your body guards, New Yorkpolice agents in black face, self confessed, who gave you mouth to mouthresuscitation. Why would the police try to save your life? It was highdrama. Why would the police apprehend the co-conspirators? It's a funkysituation!
The killer walked. He will get his brownie points, abook, a movie, maybe a medal of freedom. He killed the preacher of truthfor the father of lies! Where the Nation of Islam was involved, itcannot be absolved. Those who fanned the flames cannot be forgiven. Theywere as dastardly as the killer(s).
And yet, the division in ourcommunity must be healed. The martyrdom of Malcolm, Malik Shabazz, issimilar to the Sunni killing of the Shia imams. There is an eternal painin the Shia community, and there is a similar pain in the blackcommunity. There must be communal healing of this trauma and unresolvedgrief.
It has poisoned our spiritual life, intellectual life andpolitical life. There are those who hate Islam as a result of Malcolm'sassassination, no matter the US Government's role in the affair--andstrangely many of those who hate Islam have no similar hatred ofAmerica, so there is an addiction to white supremacy in the anti-Islamichaters.
Intellectually, scholars with a Malcolm bias havewritten revisionist history, blinded by their emotional bias, unable toput the NOI in perspective. No matter how one might try, one cannot gofrom Garvey to Malcolm in any realistic historical analysis, yet ourscholars suffer a myopia when attempting to put Malcolm in his properperspective.
Politically, at some point we must understand shithappens in revolution! Persons are betrayed, assassinated, ostracized.This is the nature of revolution. The black revolution was no differentthan the French, Chinese, Russian, Mexican, African. Get over it! Acceptthe pain of Malcolm, the tears in the night.
And how many of youwho say you love him so much have done a damn thing he said? Youhaven't done nothing Malcolm said, for that matter, you haven't doneanything anyone said, whether Malcolm, Martin, Elijah, Garvey, NobleDrew Ali, Jesus, Muhammad or Buddha!
We must attain revolutionarymaturity and stop crying crocodile tears over events of the past. Wemust move on, understanding the actors played their parts, now the dramais over. The end.
Yes, the killed has walked onto the stage oflife, but it shall be short lived--what price glory?
It would bebetter that he died long ago than face the wrath of the people who lovedMalcolm as their brother, son, and black shining prince.
--Marvin X
5/2/10
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