You dont stick a knife in a mans back nine inches, said Malcolm X, - TopicsExpress



          

You dont stick a knife in a mans back nine inches, said Malcolm X, and then pull it out six inches and say youre making progress. The notion that black Americas long bloody journey was accomplished through frequent alliance with the United States is an assailants-eye view of history. It takes no note of the fact that in 1860, most of this countrys exports were derived from the forced labor of the people it was allied with. It takes no note of this country electing senators who, on the Senate floor, openly advocated domestic terrorism. It takes no note of what it means for a country to tolerate the majority of the people living in a state like Mississippi being denied the right to vote. It takes no note of what it means to exclude black people from the housing programs, from the GI Bills, that built the American middle class. Effectively it takes no serious note of African-American history, and thus no serious note of American history. theatlantic/politics/archive/2014/03/other-peoples-pathologies/359841/
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:15:46 +0000

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