on this anniversary of brother malcolm x's assassination let us honor him by not letting him be turned into a harmless icon by those who vilified and smeared him endlessly in life. he was and always remained a revolutionary. THREAD WITH CLIPS
this was malcolm's response when cops shot and killed an unarmed black man, and it resonates to this day
also as true today as when malcolm said it decades ago
when malcolm x said we well get our freedom by any means necessary
one of the clips of malcolm that gives me the most joy: when he talked about liberals and how dangerous they are
when malcolm was asked if he was afraid of being killed
malcolm is accused of being unable to be objective about racism because the KKK burned down his family house and killed his father. as ever malcolm remains calm and collected and puts that depraved scumbag in his place
as always happens when I post about malcolm x both liberal and right-wing creeps come in to try to do what I said at the beginning: turn him into a harmless icon for their cause and deny his revolutionary politics. this thread debunks that nonsense:
https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1288274976492204032
as you can see in that speech malcolm was also a staunch anti-imperialist, and supported the vietcong's heroic fight against US imperialism and also the likes of che and castro, the latter of whom he met personally. for more details on that see this thread
https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1260610755545743362
malcolm x perfectly describes obama and every liberal politician: "I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil"
a rendition of malcolm's famous "the chicken came home to roost" quote. I love when he adds: "it never made me sad. in fact it's only made me glad"
from malcolm's brilliant and seminal "message to the grassroots", talking about the importance of revolutionary violence as self-defense. here's the full text: blackpast.org/african-americ…. and listen to the full speech here:
when malcolm said "american democracy is hypocrisy"
another one of my favorite malcolm clips, where he talks about clown ass celebrities spouting nonsense that placates the powerful
a "journalist" asks malcolm x if he hates all white people. the response leaves him speechless
malcolm x's brilliant analysis of what the likes of candace owens are but the contemporary iteration of, a type that's existed since the days of slavery, using one's blackness to prop up white supremacy for personal gain
another element of those types that malcolm talks about here is their underlying self-hatred, which they were taught by their white masters
malcolm x talks about the need to declare war on violent racists like the KKK, and use revolutionary violence as a form of self-defense against them
malcolm x was also a staunch supporter of the palestinian liberation struggle, and called out the genocidal apartheid state of israel 
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