MALCOLM X CELEBRATION

On Feb. 21, 1965 Malcolm X was assianated as he gave a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem New York. On Feb. 21, 2010 how many of you even remembered his assignation? How many marches were held in Malcolm’s honor? How many of his speeches were read in celebration throughout our community? How many prayers were said in the memory of a man who had an influence on the lives of African American people? Not many I would venture to say. Malcolm was a hero to many African Americans during his time. His supreme gift to us was that he loved us and believed in our possibilities and tried to make us believe in them too. Malcolm X tried to make African American people feel good about them selves. During his time, Malcolm X said what a lot of African Americans were saying behind closed doors at that time and he was saying it on TV and in the streets of Harlem. Many of us don’t associate ourselves with Malcolm X because we thought of him as being a violate man. What a misconception that is. If you would only take the time to study the man and the times in which he lived you would see that he was a man who looked our oppressors in their face and spoke the truth of which many of us dared not speak during those time.  Maybe next Feb. 21, more of us will remember what Malcolm X meant to us at that time in our in lives and our history. Then maybe more of us will be willing to honor his words and his legacy come Feb. 21, 2011. Malcolm X never turned his back on African American people so why should we turn our backs on Malcolm X?