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    Malcolm X's life and teachings provide important lessons for black students and the black liberation struggle. He advocated for principles like thinking independently, practicing self-criticism, mastering language, and studying history. His speeches outlined strategic lessons like the importance of unity in the struggle, viewing revolution rather than integration as the goal, connecting to Africa, understanding the importance of land and political economy, employing class analysis, and realizing that ballots and bullets may both be needed for change. Malcolm X taught the ongoing relevance of capitalism's contradictions, the necessity of women's equality, and the need for white people to reform their behavior toward black communities. His assassination spurred many organizations and movements that advanced the black liberation cause.

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    Malcolm X's life and teachings provide important lessons for black students and the black liberation struggle. He advocated for principles like thinking independently, practicing self-criticism, mastering language, and studying history. His speeches outlined strategic lessons like the importance of unity in the struggle, viewing revolution rather than integration as the goal, connecting to Africa, understanding the importance of land and political economy, employing class analysis, and realizing that ballots and bullets may both be needed for change. Malcolm X taught the ongoing relevance of capitalism's contradictions, the necessity of women's equality, and the need for white people to reform their behavior toward black communities. His assassination spurred many organizations and movements that advanced the black liberation cause.

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    Malcolm X

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    Malcolm X's life and teachings provide important lessons for black students and the black liberation struggle. He advocated for principles like thinking independently, practicing self-criticism, mastering language, and studying history. His speeches outlined strategic lessons like the importance of unity in the struggle, viewing revolution rather than integration as the goal, connecting to Africa, understanding the importance of land and political economy, employing class analysis, and realizing that ballots and bullets may both be needed for change. Malcolm X taught the ongoing relevance of capitalism's contradictions, the necessity of women's equality, and the need for white people to reform their behavior toward black communities. His assassination spurred many organizations and movements that advanced the black liberation cause.

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    Malcolm X
    Lessons from the life of Malcolm X
    Little Family legacy of Ideological Traditions
    Ideological tradition Family Legacy

    PanAfricanism Mother was born in Grenada, and


    both parents in the UNIA

    Nationalism Father a major community


    organizer for the UNIA

    Black liberation theology Father a Baptist minister and


    mother a devout Seventh Day
    Adventist

    Feminism/womanism Strong mother, sisters and half-


    sister

    Socialism Father taught and practiced self


    reliance and self-determination,
    including building ones own house
    and having a garden for food
    How the Stages of Malcolm X’s Life
    maps the general Black Experience
    Name Space Institution Crisis General type

    Malcolm Little Small mid-western Family and Racism in school, Positive youth
    towns, small Black school murder of father, experiences
    community hospitalization of
    mother
    Detroit Red Large East coast The “street” Drugs, violence, Negative youth
    cities, large Black and prison and arrest experiences
    populations
    Malcolm X National minister, Nation of Contradiction in Born again religious
    travels nationally Islam the NOI convert , nationalist
    political activist
    Omowale Global activist in OAAU and Conflicts with the Revolutionary
    Africa, Middle East MMI NOI and global political activist and
    and Europe security forces Sunni minister
    Methodological approach of Malcolm X:
    Principles for Black Students
    1. Think for yourself: “Its good to keep wide open ears and listen
    to what everybody has to say…you have to
    weigh all of what you’ve heard…(but) come
    to a decision for yourself and you’ll never
    regret it.”
    2. Practice self-criticism: “My greatest lack has been, I believe, that I don’t
    have the kind of education I wish I had been
    able to get…”
    3. Master language “I love languages. I wish I were an accomplished
    linguist.” (Read the dictionary.)
    4. Study history: “Of all our studies, history is best qualified to
    reward our research”
    5. Learn to debate: “…in the prison, debating, speaking to a crowd,
    was as exhilarating to me as the discovery of
    knowledge through reading had been.”
    Black cultural creativity is key to survival
    Black ideological and political radicalism was a
    collective process with Malcolm X as its major voice

    (Nov. 1963, just before “Message to the Grassroots” speech)


    The movement context for the
    Detroit speeches of Malcolm X

    1963
    Battle of
    Birmingham

    1962
    Murder of
    Ronald Stokes
    The curriculum encoded in
    the speeches of Malcolm X
    Lesson 1:

    Unity is the foundation for our struggle


    What you and I need to do is learn to forget our
    differences. When we come together, we don't
    come together as Baptists or Methodists. You
    don't catch hell 'cause you're a Baptist, and you
    don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist. You
    don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist or
    Baptist. You don't catch hell because you're a
    Democrat or a Republican. You don't catch hell
    because you're a Mason or an Elk. And you sure
    don't catch hell 'cause you're an American; 'cause
    if you was an American, you wouldn't catch no
    hell. You catch hell 'cause you're a black man. You
    catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason.
    Lesson 2:
    Our strategic focus
    is revolution
    The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the black revolution is world-wide
    in scope and in nature. The black revolution is sweeping Asia, sweeping Africa, is rearing its
    head in Latin America. The Cuban Revolution -- that's a revolution. They overturned the
    system. Revolution is in Asia. Revolution is in Africa. And the white man is screaming
    because he sees revolution in Latin America. How do you think he'll react to you when you
    learn what a real revolution is? You don't know what a revolution is. If you did, you wouldn't
    use that word.
    A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution
    overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a
    knot on the wall, saying, "I'm going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me."
    No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as
    Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing "We Shall Overcome"? Just tell me.
    You don't do that in a revolution. You don't do any singing; you're too busy swinging. It's
    based on land. A revolutionary wants land so he can set up his own nation, an independent
    nation. These Negroes aren't asking for no nation. They're trying to crawl back on the
    plantation.
    Lesson 3:

    Africa
    the key to global revolution

    Malcolm taught us to reconnect with our African identity


    Lesson 4:

    Land
    Political economy is a
    required subject to study

    European land grab in Africa during


    the Berlin conference of 1884-85

    Production forces: land, labor and capital


    Production relations: Who works? Who owns? 1% vs 99%
    Lesson 5:

    History is key to our study, Bloodshed

    the history of revolution


    1. American Revolution 1776 - capitalism
    2. French Revolution 1789 - capitalism
    3. Russian Revolution 1917 - socialism
    4. Chinese Revolution 1949 - socialism
    5. Cuban Revolution 1959 - socialism
    6. Algerian Revolution 1962 - national liberation
    7. Kenyan Revolution 1963 - national liberation
    Lesson 6:

    Class analysis is essential


    to tell friends from enemies
    “There were two kinds of slaves. There was the house Negro and the field Negro.”
    Lesson 7:

    Strategy/tactics
    Ballots and Bullets
    The political philosophy of black
    nationalism means that the black
    man should control the politics and
    the politicians in his own community;
    no more. The black man in the black
    community has to be re-educated
    into the science of politics so he will
    know what politics is supposed to
    bring him in return. Don't be
    throwing out any ballots. A ballot is
    like a bullet. You don't throw your
    ballots until you see a target, and if
    that target is not within your reach,
    keep your ballot in your pocket.
    Malcolm X meeting with politicians in NY state capitol.
    Lesson 8:

    Capitalism is not a viable system .

    It is impossible for capitalism to


    survive, primarily because the
    system of capitalism needs some
    blood to suck. Capitalism used to
    be a like the eagle, but now it is
    more like a vulture…As the
    nations of the world free
    themselves. Then capitalism has
    less victims, less to suck, and it
    becomes weaker and weaker. It
    is only a matter of time in my
    opinion before it will collapse
    completely.
    Lesson 9:

    Women must be have full equality!


    One thing I noticed in both
    the Middle East and Africa,
    in every country that was
    progressive, the women
    were progressive. In every
    country that was
    underdeveloped and
    backward, it was the same
    degree that the women
    were underdeveloped, or
    undeveloped and
    backward.

    Betty Shabazz, Coretta Scott King, Myrlie Evers


    Lesson 10:

    White people need to straighten up


    I’m not a racist. I don’t
    judge a man because of his
    color. I get suspicious of a
    lot of them (Whites) and
    cautious around a lot of
    them – from experience.
    Not because of their color,
    but because of what
    experience has taught me
    concerning their overall
    behavior toward us…We
    are against them because
    of what they do to us and
    because of what they do to
    others. All they have to do
    to get our good will is to
    show their good will and
    stop doing all those dirty
    things to our people.
    John Brown
    Legacy of the lessons Malcolm X taught
    Assassination of Malcolm X (1965)
    Black Panther Party (1966)
    Black power Conference in Newark (1967)
    *1st Black Studies Program at San Francisco State (1968)
    Olympics Black Power salute (1968)
    *The Black Scholar (1969)
    The League of Revolutionary Black Workers (1969)
    Malcolm X Liberation University (1969)
    *The Journal of Black Studies (1970)
    Congress of African People (1970)
    Black Political Assembly (1972)
    Council of Independent Black Institutions (1972)
    African Liberation Support Committee (1972)
    6th Pan African Congress (1974)
    So, why Malcolm X?
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