Malcolm X - "You may be shocked by these words coming from me."

[mondo joe]

There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blondes to black-skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had led me to believe never could exist between the white and the non-white.

You may be shocked by these words coming from me. But on this pilgrimage, what I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to rearrange much of my thought patterns previously held, and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions. This was not too difficult for me. Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass and slept in the same bed (or on the same rug)-while praying to the same God with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of the blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the actions and in the deeds of the ‘white' Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan and Ghana.

We are truly all the same-brothers.

-- El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X)'s letter

[Solly Mack]

1. Thank you

[Dhalgren]

2. Timely post. K&R...

[mondo joe]

3. It seemed to me if Malcolm X was going to be quoted, it was only fair to quote his

change of mind as well as his earlier position.

[Smith_3]

4. Really cool.

:)

[AnOhioan]

5. This is the Malcolm X many remember

Not the hate filled version of his earlier days. K&R

[roguevalley]

8. I remember both. I like this one best.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

6. Nice, K & R.

:kick:

Those words of peace and humanity doomed him, as it did many of his contemporaries. :cry: MKJ

[ChazII]

7. another K&R

and thanks for posting, too.

[Orwellian_Ghost]

9. K&R n/t