“We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator…Once we all realize that we have a common enemy,
then we unite, on the basis of what we have in common…",
then we unite, on the basis of what we have in common…",
Malcolm X—Message to the Grass Roots
MALCOLMITES OBSERVE 50TH ANNIVERSARY
OF ‘MESSAGE TO THE GRASSROOTS’!
On Sunday, November 10th, the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee will host a people’s symposium to observe the 50th anniversary of the most seminal revolutionary speech of the 20th century, ‘The Message To The Grassroots,’ by Malcolm X!
This special gathering will take at CEMOTAP, 135-05 Rockaway Blvd, Ozone Pk Queens at 3pm.
Donation requested.
Among the participants will be Professor James Small who maintained the annual pilgrimage to the gravesite of Malcolm X for 42 years and Professor William Sales, who authored the vastly underappreciated ‘From Civil Rights To Black Liberation, Malcolm X and the Organization of AfroAmerican Unity’, among others!
“I defy anyone to cite a speech that has the conscious resonance between the generations like the awesome eyeopening, timemarking ‘Message To The Grassroots,’” said Zayid Muhammad, MXCC’s press officer.
Malcolm X delivered the classic speech on November 10, 1963 at King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan in a gathering organized by the Northern Negro Grassroots Leadership Conference.
The event will also include statements from Black political prisoners on the impact that Malcolm’s speech had on their personal commitments and on their own organizing efforts!
“We simply could not let a milestone like this go by and not recognize it for its enormous importance,” said Dequi Kioni-Sadiki, the fiery chairwoman of the organization.
For more information, please call 718 512 5008…
THE MALCOLM X COMMEMORATION COMMITTEE
PO BOX 380-122
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11238
718-512-5008 mxcc519@verizon.net
https://theblacklist.net/
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to whom it may concern,
fifty years later, hmmmm. and where are we now? man, i'm so sick-n-tired of being sick-n-tired of all this shit. i'm gonna continue to say it till my last breath. when the black man quit bullshitting around with everything that has plagued him since he was brought over here by force, forced to work for free, and then held in check by force, he will ALWAYS be a slave.
and to speak of malcolm x, and then for the black man to shuck-n-jive is an insult to saint omowale's legacy. when the cracka reporter asked him what was the price of freedom, how did malcolm respond? he kept it plain and simple: death. now who among us, who wanna be commemorating malcolm x's grassroots speech fifty years later, is willing? i'm not waisting my time with that shit, and insult malcolm's legacy.
UHURU!
What they NEED to be doing is educating the people about Corrections Corporation of America TRADING our young people on Wall Street through BONDS. We think that when you get a Bond to get out of Jail, it's DIFFERENT than the Bonds on Wall Street. A Bond is a negotiable financial instrument. PERIOD. That's WHY they have so many white police in OUR community because these white police have NO compassion for OUR experience & have NO problem locking niggas up. Most of THEM don't even know what's going on. It's ALL about the BONDS. Tell Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson & all of the other hand picked misleaders to address THIS while they're commemorating Malcolm's speech. Nothing has changed, in fact, it's gotten worse because as Stevie Wonder sang 35 years ago "Been spending MOST their lives, living IN a Past time paradise" & we STILL are. We have to deal with what's going on TODAY as well as, remember the past. But AFTER the events we fall BACK into apathy, ho hum.
Can we convince the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee to join the National Anti-Gangsta Rap Committee in honor of our Shining Black Prince? We need to challenge the "attitudes" of our children with progressive proactive energies that gives our children positive direction in their lives verses what gangsta rap offers. Afrikan Truth Be Told (Afrikan_tbt@ yahoo) We need to be about national movement with the National anti-gangsta rap initiative and groups like MXCC needs to be out front, among the first to sign up. Two contacts are Baba A. Lukata Chikuyu at afrikan_tbt@yahoo.com and Bomani Crumpton <educationwillstop@yahoo.com>.
to whom it may concern,
i just thought i'd throw in my two cent. the phrase gangsta rap was coined by the racist propaganda machine in order to subvert the potential revolutionary hip hop culture that began in the eighties. and you gotta remember that we didn't need the radio stations. so how was the enemy able to subvert a culture that began on the streets? they were able to do it the same way they converted queen latifah, ice cube, and ice-t. they were able to do it the same way they turned bob johnson's b.e.t. but, they had to assassinate tupac amaru shakur. and now common is the latest to turn like a vampire. i say all that to say this. when yall go after the misnomer gangsta rappers, make sure yall go after b.e.t. too.
UHURU!
Brotha Lukata, you said "Can we convince the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee to join the National Anti-Gangsta Rap Committee in honor of our Shining Black Prince?"
Who are the "we" that's going to make the contact?
"We" don't want to do that or we would have.
If YOU are serious about what you want WE to do, then, why not use the phone number and the email address in the article. I am sure YOU are able to do that.
Asante Sana for your constructive critism and i am forwording this discussion to that email address, along with this message -
While I wholeheartedly agree that We should be thankful that Sister Marissa (Alexander) is out of jail, We should not confuse that with her being “Free”. Those of us who are outraged by this case in the first place, should hold on to the anger it brought out of each of us as a lasting stimulus for creating change. All of us must join a group that is working for social justice for Black People and become Active in the movement to create the change WE want to see and need to see. Also, if you are a part of a group, association, club, agency and/or entity that calls itself anything associated with “Black People”, you should become an advocate for Unapologetic Progressive Social Black Action on the part of your Black Entity. And you should also encourage Social Networking among all “Black Entities” that expedites the type of change We Want & Need to see happen, especially economically.
Nothing but Love & Best Wishes for Sister Michelle and Prayerful Thoughts of a Progressive Black Action Network for People of African Descent.
Baba Asinia Lukata Chikuyu
Education & Cultural Consultant