Malcolm's predictions
A legacy of brilliance
Malcolm X has been one of the most influential thinkers and spiritual leaders in my life. I know moderates, and primarily whites, tend to have an historically colonial, race-driven, visceral reaction of fear when hearing his name, and that is as designed by the colonial narrative. But Malcolm X took the world on a journey of self-discovery, along the pathway of a brilliant mind that was married to ethics and spirituality and global constructs. Malcolm, as is consistently revealed, had a prophetic mind.
As I child, I used to hold conversations with him in my head. It would help me order my thoughts, focus my mind’s eye, and draw correlations between different world views and actions. Sometimes, those one-way conversations would calm me when the world appeared upside down and wounds were painful.
This post is about links to information about Malcolm X that are intended to introduce—or in some cases re-introduce—the average person to the work he did while he was here. I hope you experience some aha! moments along the way. Those moments just keep coming.
Malcolm is one of the main progenitors of the Black-Palestinian alliance that continues strong to this day.
Thank you, Malcolm. For everything. You are the gift that keeps on giving. If only we will listen.
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I recommend The Autobiography of Malcolm X, available in a bunch of places, libraries included, at least for now.
Here are some links that are relevant to things we talk about here; links come from The Middle East Eye and Sam Husseini’s Substack:
Middle East Eye:
The fraught and unforgettable: How Malcolm X's legacy lives on in America
By Azad Essa
When Malcolm X Visited Gaza in September 1964
By Rayhan Uddin
Sam Husseini’s Substack:
I hope these peeks into the very complex and expansive mind, heart, and spirit of Malcolm X provide some nourishment and curiosity to learn more.