I agree with Malcolm X's daughters. I love Malcolm X and I love Manning Marable so I have been struggling for over a year trying to understand why Dr. Marable made these very questionable editorial decisions. How would Dr. Marable feel if someone published a letter about the intimate details of his sexual relations with his wife and then called such a story scholarly and newsworthy? I am really having difficulty getting my head around why Dr. Marable and his publishers felt this was acceptable. Is this yet another divide-and-conquer tactic by people who oppose Afrikan freedom, justice and equality? Time will tell. GI
Malcolm X's daughters unhappy with new book
NEKESA MUMBI MOODY, AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Two of Malcolm X's daughters are unhappy that a new biography alleges their parents' marriage was strained and that their mother — and possibly their father — were unfaithful.The marriage "was definitely faithful and devoted because my father was a man of impeccable integrity, and I think that most people, if they're not clear on anything, they're clear that he was moral and ethical and had impeccable character," Ilyasah Shabazz said Wednesday.
Ilyasah and Malaak Shabazz spoke to The Associated Press about "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention." Author Manning Marable, a highly respected scholar who worked for more than 20 years on the book, died last week of complications of pneumonia just before publication. Malcolm X's daughters did not speak to Marable for the book, which draws upon thousands of interviews, government documents and private papers.
Tags: Malcolm X, El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Betty Shabazz, Manning Marable
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That feeling you feel? That nagging, foundation shaking feeling? That's it brother. That's the seed of stripping out your foundation of heroes from under you. Its psychological warfare that's intensifying against blacks.
ReplyDeleteDr. Marable probably wasn't in a position to say no to his publishers. He probably didn't want to do this, but couldn't refuse. At least I hope so. Or maybe he didn't author it at all.
So what now happens is we have a basis for dismissing Malcolm X. "Oh he cheated on his wife anyway, so what kind of muslim is he?" OR,
"Oh Betty wasnt the saint that she made herself out to be, what kind of muslim was she?"
Then black people automatically lose these two beacons of light. We then dismiss them as people to look up to and emulate. It's already been done the Martin, and Gandhi (he's racist, so they say)
It's a game that we always fall for. A false picture of piety that's used to judge others with.
I SAY WE IGNORE THESE REPORTS--KEEP LOOKING TO WHAT OUR HEROES AND SHEROES DID!! NOT THEIR SO CALLED HUMAN INDISCRETIONS.
They know us well, and know how to have us destroy ourselves. Let's not judge Malcolm or Betty--whether they "cheated" or not is completely and utterly irrelevant!!!
Agreed sister Anna. Totally irrelevant but slanderous nonetheless. As for Professor Marable, I am 100% certain that he was fully aware of these unfortunately editorial decisions. What a shame he is not here to explain himself more fully. GI
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