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and now a word from Malcolm X...

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What got my attention about this quote is how it goes against everything Martin Luther King Jr. stood for, yet, oddly enough, King was on good terms with the hot-headed radical.

How many people are waiting on HIS marble likeness on The Mall?

Comments (6)

Craniac:

Martin Luther King Junior had a positive message. He dreamed our society would improve. It seems that many of the so called Civil Rights leaders that followed him do not have a positive message. They do not have a dream of a better society. All they have are complaints and accusations. Dialogue is a one way street.
I do think our society has improved on Civil Rights. We can still improve but we need a leader with a positive message.

Principlex:

There may be a statue of MLK on the mall, but I don't think it is a good representation of him - at all. It looks communist - a rigid dictator type of personality. And it was created by a Chinese who would have intimate access to that type of personality. That's not MLK.

Terwiliger:

On its own, I like this. It makes me think of some of the edgier late 60s to 70s caricatures--I get a "Pink Panther" kind of vibe. The ethereal shading effect kicks it up a notch.

I appreciate the irony of this one on more than one level.

No further comment.

John Cox:

Hey T
Once again, thanks for chipping in an insightful take on this. I tend to go back and forth on how much "slickness" or "texture" is in my caricatures. I let the caricature subject suggest the approach.

Dr. Bob:

A very curious person, this X fellow. Particularly that after more than a decade of being a militant leader of the Nation of Islam, he moved away from it, denounced it.

In the aftermath, he was under constant threat from the Nation of Islam - death threats, bombs placed in his car, his house burned to the ground. He eventually was murdered by 3 Nation of Islam members.

It's very hard to predict what would have happened had he lived.

The Wikipedia entry for X is very interesting - explains a lot about N of I.


Yo:

He is very interesting, his thoughts and ideas changed when he came here.

His former "brothers" killed him. Black on black hate crime, something we don't hear very much about -- I've often wondered about that!

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