First, I am attempting to become part of the Pan-Afrikanist movement--really advanced by John Henrik Clarke...
Secondly, in order to attain Afrikan Centeredness, it requires one to read and research various pieces of literature and develop an understanding and appreciation for history--the good, the bad and the ugly. The history of the diasporic people of Afrika, called the KiSwahili name MAAFA, did not start at enslavement. As you may be aware, it started well beyond that with civilization and culture. If you viewed the recent presentation called
The Real Eve on the
Discovery Channel , you would see how far back Our-story goes...
Anyhow, back our current situation. IMHO, Malcolm did not become disillusioned after the Hajj. I think it just got tough for him to reconcile his strong belief about man and the amerikkklan ideology of domination which was more prevalent then, than the insidiousness now...
IMHO, I think MLK made too many inaccurate political moves. However, I do not think it was due to his mental weakness, I think had more to do with a "big picture" the Untied States was focussing on, rather than the hatred at home. Just think, if President Kennedy was killed in 1963, when was the Cuban Missile Crisis? Before that... So the problem was that the former Soviet Republic DID have the capital to place NUCLEAR WEAPONS (of mass destruction and not those dirty bombs folks are talking about now) right on amerikkklan's back door!!! That is how space satellite technology got developed... And come to think about it,
(white) man was flying all around up in space and landing on the moon by 1970... So, you KNOW J. Edgar Hoover and his gay lover weren't thinkin' 'bout NO MLK Nuckin' up alla dat chit... And basically, the FBI ALLOWED the Klan and their slaves to decimate what was going on in the South at the time... Hmmmm....
I think my parents that are your grandparents age, marched for noble reasons. Protested for THAT time which worked for THAT time. But this Jesse Jackson stuh, as great as man he has been and maybe in some ways still is, won't work against the demonic white supremacy and europee-on concept of world domination... Yes, it seems as though violence gives one immediate results. But at the same time, spiritually speaking, violence begets more violence.
What is it gonna take to cause racist thought extinction? That which overrides all thought--The Spirit and the Divine... How much will it cost? The price of freedom is death... Or rather, pain and suffering. And just like giving birth is painful, humankind may have to suffer to be "re-born". I say that because the "Word" on the (spiritual) street is humankind will be entering the Age of the Goddess--colloquially put a kind of Rennaissance. And so, since humans cannot stay static forever and change is inevitable, we either become extinct and die, or we embrace it and become enlightened... I know this sounds goofy. But look around and see what going on in the World today... Priest are pedophiles, the Tribes of Israel are fighting the Gentiles, Scientists ask "is that all I am?"... Signs are being posted regarding change... Who will be its agents?