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Malcolm X, born on this day (May 18th) in 1925, was a revolutionary civil rights leader who advocated for black liberation by "any means necessary".
Biography
Born Malcolm Little, he spent his youth living in a series of foster homes and engaging in petty crime, eventually serving six years in prison for larceny and breaking and entering.
While in prison, Malcolm joined the Nation of Islam (NOI) and adopted the surname "X" to acknowledge his unknown African ancestral name. Malcolm quickly became a leader with the NOI and was paroled in 1952, beginning a period of radical advocacy for black liberation.
In the 1960s, Malcolm X broke with the Nation of Islam, growing disillusioned with its leader Elijah Muhammed. During his 1964 pilgrimage to Mecca, he witnessed Muslims of "all colors, from blue-eyed blonds to black-skinned Africans" treat each other as equals in worship. Because of this, Malcolm X became convinced that Islam could be used as a means to achieve racial equality.
On February 21st, 1965, Malcolm was assassinated in New York City. Three Nation members were charged with the murder and given indeterminate life sentences. Two of these men, Muhammed Abdul Aziz and Khalil Islam, were exonerated in 2021 after a 22-month investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney found that evidence of their innocence, including FBI documents, was withheld at trial.
The Shabazz family are among those who have accused Louis Farrakhan of involvement in Malcolm X's assassination. In 1994, Betty Shabazz was asked if she thought Farrakhan had anything to do with her late husband's death. She replied "Of course, yes. Nobody kept it a secret. It was a badge of honor. Everybody talked about it, yes."
In the wake of his assassination, capitalist press vilified Malcolm X, while media in Africa, China, and Cuba lauded him as a hero and a martyr. The New York Times wrote that Malcolm X was "an extraordinary and twisted man" who "turn[ed] many true gifts to evil purpose", while Time magazine condemned him "an unashamed demagogue" whose "creed was violence."
In contrast, The Ghanaian Times identified Malcolm X as among "a host of Africans and Americans who were martyred in freedom's cause." In China, the People's Daily described him as a martyr killed by "ruling circles and racists" whose death illustrated that "in dealing with imperialist oppressors, violence must be met with violence."
In 2023, The Guardian reported that the Shabazz family announced their plans to sue the FBI, New York Police, and other agencies over Malcom X's death. Ilyasah Shabazz, the third daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, announced that new information indicates federal and state agencies “conspired to and executed their plan to assassinate”. Ilyasah added "For years, our family has fought for the truth to come to light concerning his murder and we’d like our father to receive the justice that he deserves."
"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."
- Malcolm X
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Fascinating. China really has changed more in the last 50 years than the US has.
The part about the official advice being to keep driving even if you hit someone because it could be a setup for an ambush reminds me that I remember reading some garbage on Reddit years ago about "in Chiba they hit and run you because evil communists"
Ahh... classic
I'm not sure if it's related to officials telling drivers to run highway-robbers over, but in China if you hit a regular pedestrian and then deliberately run them over again you are going from an insurance payout to the death penalty. I cannot recall a single instance of this actually happening that didn't involve preexisting feuds between the people involved or extreme road rage. It's definitely not to save money. So pretty much the same reasons drivers in other countries run people over on purpose. I'm sure they are deliberately misrepresenting government communiques from the highway-robbery era too. The government obviously never recommended that drivers run people over to save money, and they didn't actually change anything in the law. Chinese highway-robbers had zero qualms about killing you even if you gave them everything they wanted. The 2002 statement didn't change the law, it just emphasized that running armed thugs over was considered justified self defense. This was necessary because there was a lot of ambiguity about how far you could go before it was considered overboard.