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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Malcom X said things more like this:

Brothers and sisters, I'm here to tell you that I charge the White man. I charge the White man with being the greatest murderer on earth. I charge the White man with being the greatest kidnapper on earth. There is no place in this world that that man can go and say he created peace and harmony. Everywhere he's gone he's created havoc. Everywhere he's gone he's created destruction. So I charge him. I charge him with being the greatest kidnapper on this earth. I charge him with being the greatest murderer on this earth. I charge him with being the greatest robber and enslaver on this earth. I charge the White man with being the greatest swine-eater on this earth, the greatest drunkard on this earth.

[–] hateisreality@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Well that's an uncomfortable truth

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Not all etc. etc.," but I have a hard time disagreeing with him.

[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Barbary slave trade says hello

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

He said the White man is the greatest [bad thing] on Earth, not the only one.

[–] ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Excusable given circumstances, but Martin Luther King Jr's message is both much more powerful and much less racist, and the best ideal for a society to achieve along with the most correct blame

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

Malcom X himself mellowed out when he got older. But I totally get his anger.