Malcolm X appreciation thread

Saw an interesting post about Malcolm X and video. A lipreader catches a cop telling another cop to "Tell William Bradley to run!" Everyone knows Bradley was the shotgun shooter. At the 12.30 mark of this video. The FBI, CIA, NYPD, NOI all conspired to kill the man by firing squad publicly and in front of his wife and kids.

 

Skimming the MLK released files and one thing stood out

"One memo references a strategy to “neutralize King as a civil rights leader before the year ends,” adding chilling specificity to previously known COINTELPRO tactics."

Given Malcolm was a much higher priority threat, I think that it's 100% clear that the order came down from the FBI to have a public firing squad execution of Malcolm to serve as a warning to others.

If Malcolm could have gotten two governments on his side (He probably had them after his travel), he could have taken the US to the UN supreme court as he said he was going to do and there is every possibility he could have gotten reparations for black people in America if the UN sided against America, a genuine possibility. Definitely a case that would have went down in the history books either way. He was probably about to announce something big at that speech.

Maybe it was a good move by the US to assassinate him when you think about what was on the line. Good move for them, bad move for black Americans. Except for blacks in the The Nation Of Islam...

 

UN wasn't going to force America to pay shit whether they sided against the US or not. Winning a verdict and actually getting the money is two totally different things and one way or another America would have weaseled their way out of it or flat-out just not paid it off.

 

Best Denzel performance and best Spike Lee joint

 

Malcolm would have constantly been on their asses. At a bare minimum they'd have had to institute a good amount of policies/programs that genuinely helped blacks.

The FBI had to get rid of him and do it by public firing squad to show what they can do. They were probably disappointed that the bullets didn't destroy his face for the visual. Then they basically publicly frame two guys. Everyone on the street knew who did it but was too scared to say anything after how Malcolm got done.

Elijah Muhammad and those NOI guys were scammers running a good cult that enabled them to impregnate as many women as possible and get rich. Ali was one of those stupid enough to fall for it. It's also an indictment on Malcolm that he believed that BS but he did eventually wise up in fairness.