this guy was seriously a sack up guy in a lot of different ways...
he was the face of the nation of islam from 1953 to 1964.. but more importantly he is an icon of the black nationalist movement and he was known as the "angriest man in america"...
just in general the enormous sack that you had to have to go out in public calling BS on the status quo in such a dangerous time must have weighed a ton.. he probably had a bad back...
this big sack was swung in the face of the nation when he refused to show the requisite sadness and hopelessness over the assassination of JFK.. he let his disdain for a racist american state be known... "chickens coming home to roost" he called it... and it was true.. the conspiracy, secrecy and violence of the state and american society came back around and bit it in the ass... its true that you reap what you sow... and malcolm x had the sack to call it...
an ongoing sack up of his early years was the call for a separate black nation... rather than begging for a piece of your pie, we will just go ahead and bake our own... we dont want any of your handouts thank you... SACK folks.. thats sack...
even though he mellowed the rhetoric later on, he never abandoned the "do for self" mantra of personal responsibility and empowerment...
so obviously he was a guy that didnt give a flying fuck cuz he knew he was right... but as if all this other mess wasnt enough he began to make efforts to call INTERNATIONAL BULLSHIT on the racist policies of the USA... he was rallying international support to bring the case of american black folks to the united nations... this is at the same time that apartheid is being internationally condemned... thats like having nuclear balls...
Malcolm X is an inspiration to many americans because he was unafraid to speak out and organize people who previously had no collective power for political action or for self-preservation against an openly racist, insecure, and aggressive society who used state power to instill fear in the black population and to subjugate its own citizens...
he was a man for his times with a huge sack...
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then farrakhan (sp) shot off that huge sack to solidify his own power at the Nation of Islam, and we've been waiting or someone to shout out and speak up ever since. Sad.
But the bowties are quite a statement.
but the bowties are quite a statement
HA ha ha...
(Gene Shalit and Orville Reddenbacher: Wayback Whities or Freedom Fighters?)
Hey Erik, are you riding for a Team this up coming 2006 season ? Are you on any roster ? I have just finished watching PRO !
Speaking of sacking up...
Chuck Norris is not hung like a horse... horses are hung like Chuck Norris
If you ask Chuck Norris what time it is, he always says, "Two seconds till." After you ask, "Two seconds to what?" he roundhouse kicks you in the face.
At birth, Chuck Norris came out feet first so he could roundhouse kick the doctor in the face. Nobody delivers Chuck Norris but Chuck Norris
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yeah.. malcolm is one of those guys that a lot of people dont get..
growing up in a majority black city with a lot of typical urban problems it was malcolm x who was an inspiration to every young black male that i knew... you thought of him and his life and teachings and it made you want to represent your race proudly and it made you want to pursue a rewarding career and it made you want to be a business leader in your community and to change your surroundings.. it made you want to stay away from drugs and not be a drunk.. it made you want to be a thinking man and it taught you to value education.. it made you aspire to be a husband and father... he made you want to be sulf-sufficient and he made you want to encourage others to stand on their own as well... individually and as a community...
i dont think that MLK has that appeal... MLK was cool and all to us back then... but we all wanted to be more like malcolm to be truthful... malcolm was a lense through which things were put in perspective... and the bottom line is that it all starts with the individual and goes from the bottom up... each one teach one... you cant underestimate the positive impact to all of society that self-sufficient, motivated and community-minded 30 somethings can have.. and its all thanks to malcolm x...
the civil rights movement comprised a lot of people from a lot of places.. and i dont think that MLK alone accomplished so much... it took everyone to speak out and do their thing.. it took riots in the streets.. it took peacful marches on washington.. it took also organized, angry but reserved and disciplined black men in suits with bowties who werent afraid of the state and who werent interested in reconcile... america was motivated by guilt and fear to do what it new was right... MLK made america feel guilty but he wasnt scary enough on his own...
i am thinking about who to do next... jim brown... nat turner... or like ronald reagan... or cesar chavez...
Do Bill laudien
matt decanio?
Do Barack Obama. (U.S. Senator from Illinois) Or at least read his book, Dreams from my Father.
Saunders wrote "... jim brown... nat turner... or like ronald reagan... or cesar chavez..."
You can pretty much cover all those guys at once just by doing a profile of Svatek.
che guevera? though talking socialism may land you on the CIA list, even though we all love car pool lanes
those blaxploitation films were just bad... i cant even really watch them because the production value is so poor that it hurts my eyes... in highschool i watched most of them... and thats a lot of bad movie watching... i liked shaft... and sweetback... but superfly was weak... the plot premise was very good.. but it just didnt come out as well as it could have...
as a genre it got really campy by the time you get to dolomite... and if you go past that in the continuum i dont think you will find too much worth mentioning...
those were films for the times... and i think it shows where people were at... you can see a disdain for white america in those movies... even though the black male image was stereotypical and sometimes misogynistic it remains empowering... what man doesnt want to be an omnipotent sex god- and smarter than everyone else too!?... especially at a time when america's most important institutions were still operating on the premis that black men were incapable, dumb, and not fit for a place in society... of course this still exists, but at least its publicly accepted that we should know better and there is legal recourse... the upshoot is that everyone now has recourse in these matters of equality... one example is the recent class action against walmart by women who were systematically underpaid and overlooked for promotion...
we have largely outgrown the blaxploitation characters and their limited scope... now people expect more out of their black movie heroes and they expect also that they should be appealing to all americans regardless of race... like the characters played by todays black actors in big hollywood movies... but still there is a place for 50 cent to have his stupid movie "loosely based on 9 years of his life"... and even that these days has a wide appeal...
agreed.. the curtis mayfield sound track is great... much better than the movie... i found the record in the stack of old records my dad had.. he had some good ass records... he was a professional musician.. he played bass.. so he had all the good records form the 70s... funk, soul and jazz.. so he could learn the songs... i would put that sound track on and play along on the guitar... and you are right about the bass parts.. really simple, they layed down the groove but they also took on a second melody.. all of the songs on that album were like that.. i bet of all those songs you could humm the bass line before you could humm the voice part...
i like svatek...
as much as its popular and convenient to pidgeon hole people's life philosophies and to distil away all important grey matter in politics (your brain is all grey matter by the way) guys who can be considered "jim brown,nat turner,ronald reagan,cesar chavez" types are everything that popular political thought tries to stamp out...
maybe its that these guys are the silent majority... and its the style of these guys to just live and to embrace those close to them in their warm auora...
DO NOT forget your ROOTS erik!!!
You should profile Dick Pound, talk about swimming against the tide...
Hey Eric...dont you mean El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz?
i do mean him... but he is not well known my that name
Ya...its not his common name but the transition from X to El-Shabazz reflected an important change in his outlook and beliefs .... I've thought it was important point ... if one doesnt understand that period in his evolution they dont know the compelte little - x - shabazz story....
Joni Taylor said...
Do Barack Obama. (U.S. Senator from Illinois) Or at least read his book, Dreams from my Father.
I just finished it. I would recommend it more to "the godfather" than erik, but yeah, f'ing terrific writing with eyepopping insight into what it's like to live a moral, exemplary life as a member of the minority.
one other thing i related to- sense of dissolution...
personal growth through katharsis...
i agree...
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