ajnapoleon
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I knew but I didn’t know that other part was real
“Malcom X was a pan-Africanist” dikk Gregory 🤔
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Interesting
I knew but I didn’t know that other part was real
If you only know of historical (black) figures through quotes of course you’re gonna miss the whole story
ajnapoleon
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It’s tough because they hide a lot of important facts over time
Malcolm X was always into Pan-Africanism. His parents were Garveyits with his father leading the Garvey chapter in Nebraska. Yes Dikk Gregory is correct about Malcolm X leading meeting with Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, and Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt but that trip didn’t make him a Pan-Africanist his upbringing did.
When he went international and founded OAAU in Harlem that was just more about business ties.
When he went international and founded OAAU in Harlem that was just more about business ties.
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Pan-Africanism was the move back then (and earlier) up until the 80's/90's.
No surprise.
No surprise.
Facts can be easily uncovered if one has an ounce of curiosity and reads.
Nkrumah Was Right
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Nkrumah Was Right
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Pan-Africanism retreated after the liberation of South Africa.
By the mid 1990s, there was a changing of the guard. Many pre 1950s leaders were killed, exiled or grew weak/corrupt. Also, neoliberalism and the death of the USSR destroyed ideological/material alternatives. Pax Americana after 1991 sealed it.
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Of course he was 
Same with Ali and a lot of the others that people hail as icons of (insert acronym) -- only to turnaround and talk about how horrible Pan Africanism is.
Yall remember that New Jack City scene where Pookie was fighting the urge to hit the rock? That's what I think of when people talk about Pan Africanism. Like they're some damn recovering addicts
Same with Ali and a lot of the others that people hail as icons of (insert acronym) -- only to turnaround and talk about how horrible Pan Africanism is. Yall remember that New Jack City scene where Pookie was fighting the urge to hit the rock? That's what I think of when people talk about Pan Africanism. Like they're some damn recovering addicts
| Malcolm X And His Visit To Nigeria In The 1960s With Pic by keentola(m): 12:35pm On Oct 08, 2019 |
| Malcolm X , originally born Malcolm Little, was a notorious African-American hooligan who later became a world known human right activist and Islamic leader. Malcolm X visited Nigeria on two occasions, one in 1959 and the other in 1964. His first visit to Nigeria in 1959 was to arrange a tour for Elijah Muhammad, the leader of ‘ Nation of Islam‘, a black Muslim organization in America. Malcolm X’s second visit to Nigeria was in 1964. During this visit, he rendered a beautiful and brilliant speech at the Trenchard Hall in University of Ibadan . Also, at a reception held at the Students’ Union hall for Malcolm X by the Muslim Students’ Society, the Yoruba name ‘ Omowale‘ which literally means ‘the child has come home’ was bestowed upon him. At a press conference Malcolm addressed when he arrived in New York, he said the reception given to him by students in Nigeria was one of the highest honours he had ever received in his life. |
Malcom X- Post Humous Birthday (May 19th, 1925)
Malcolm X was born May 19th, 1925)
He would have been 96 this year. We remember and honor his legacy.
Did you know?
Malcolm X visited Nigeria on two occasions, one in 1959 and the other in 1964.
The first visit was to arrange a tour for the NOI.
During his second visit in 1964, he delivered a very moving speech at the Trenchard Hall, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. The students, faculty listened with rapt attention to the electrifying message of a man they came to refer to as “Omowale”
About that visit Malcolm X said:
”When I was in Ibadan, at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria last Friday night, the students there gave me a new name, which I go for — meaning I like it"
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“Omowale,” which they say means in yorùbá—if I am pronouncing that correctly, and if I am not pronouncing it correctly it’s because I haven’t had a chance to pronounce it for four hundred years — which means in that dialect:
“The child has returned.”
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"It was an honor for me to be referred to as a child who had sense enough to return to the land of his forefathers — to his fatherland and to his motherland. Not sent back here by the State Department, but come back here of my own free will.” -Malcolm X
Powerful words from a remarkable man.
May he rest well and may his legacy be remembered.
Malcom X- Post Humous Birthday
Malcolm X visited Nigeria on two occasions, one in 1959 and the other in 1964. The first visit was to arrange a tour for the NOI. During his second visit in 1964, he delivered a very moving speech at the Trenchard hall, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
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Malcolm X, like other long-gone leaders, has become a symbol. Nobody, at least here, really cares or pays attention to what he was standing for and believed in.
https://www.thecoli.com/threads/african-nations-lobbying-u-n-for-inquiry-into-american-police-brutality-and-systematic-racism.786985/#post-38075434
https://www.thecoli.com/threads/african-nations-lobbying-u-n-for-inquiry-into-american-police-brutality-and-systematic-racism.786985/#post-38075434
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The black man is always targeted.
Malcolm X said this:
“In fact, you'd get farther calling yourself African instead of Negro. Africans don't catch hell. You're the only one catching hell. They don't have to pass civil-rights bills for Africans. An African can go anywhere he wants right now. All you've got to do is tie your head up. That's right, go anywhere you want.” (Ballot or the Bullet, 1964)
But if I said it, Coli moderators would ban me and call it “race baiting”.
Funny how we were aware of this back in 1964.
“In fact, you'd get farther calling yourself African instead of Negro. Africans don't catch hell. You're the only one catching hell. They don't have to pass civil-rights bills for Africans. An African can go anywhere he wants right now. All you've got to do is tie your head up. That's right, go anywhere you want.” (Ballot or the Bullet, 1964)
But if I said it, Coli moderators would ban me and call it “race baiting”.
Funny how we were aware of this back in 1964.
Nkrumah Was Right
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You’d be surprised to learn what African diplomats lobby for with resources for the African diaspora.
They care. A lot.
ajnapoleon
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ajnapoleon
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They hiding him and what he did and stood for by design
That’s why I hate what’s going on in Florida and other parts of the US