Author: dig

Thomas Powers reviews ‘Malcolm X’ by Manning Marable, in the London Review of Books – 25 August 2011.  I never read Autobiography of Malcolm X; I frankly I didn’t want to.  I will read this, though.

Did Malcolm Little really believe this?

Reginald reported that he had not only found but met God, whose correct name was Allah, and who inhabited the physical form of the Honourable Elijah Muhammad, a light-skinned black man with asthma from Georgia who understood everything.

Little, more than likely, understood injustice, power, ruling by fear and violence, so, he would have believed this point the deeds of devil white men.

Black men had been enslaved and deceived. History had been ‘whitened’ to expunge ancient black kings and civilisations.

Powers writes that Marable suggests that

…the Muslims he met on a trip to Mecca in 1959 were the first to tell him plainly that Islamic belief, the Shahada, accorded no special status to the Honourable Elijah Muhammad. The Quran was not ambiguous: ‘There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the messenger of God.’ Elijah Muhammad’s claim was therefore false. All educated Muslims knew this…

MDPLS seems to have a copy.