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100 years of Malcolm X

May 19th 1925

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Remembering Malcolm X on the anniversary of his assassination

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in honor of black history month i decided to watch the biopic about Emmett Louis Till, a 14 year old boy from Chicago who was lynched in Mississippi visiting his cousins.

i should have been more prepared for how gut wrenching this movie would be. the acting was incredible and the replica of Emmett’s body made me sob.

everything was incredible and horrible at the same time, and the actress who plays Mamie (i dont remember her name right now) was impeccable in her portrayal of the grief, boldness and motherly love of the incredible woman she was portraying.

Emmett’s actor was adorable, i appreciated the inclusion of the boy’s stutter and he was so, so sweet at the beginning when they showed the short snippet of his time before and during his trip to Mississippi.

something i would like to say is that before this week, i was very uneducated on the lynching of Emmett. I knew that he was murdered, i knew that he was a child, and i knew that he had whistled. from the severity of the lynching i had presumed that this happened during slave times. it was that bad. i was shocked the other day while i was writing for a book project on Malcolm X’s autobiography, and i was bringing up lynchings in the paper. i decided to include Emmett, and was reading his wikipedia page and felt my stomach drop when seeing date of death:

1955.

My grandpa was 3 years old when Emmett was murdered. that poor baby could still be alive, and Carolyn (the woman who got him murdered) didn’t get much consequence. she died of cancer in 2023, when she should have been rotting in a prison cell for life.

please, be educated and aware of what happened in the past and in the current. alt-right borderline terroristic groups and the KKK are rising once more under this administration. it is our duty as white people to know exactly what we did to innocent children, women and men and still do to this day.

Rest in peace to Reverend George Lee, Emmett Till, Mamie Till Bradley Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm Little, George Floyd, and the thousands of other murdered african americans in the past and those that will come in the future.

please don’t praise me for doing the bare minimum of empathy and compassion for these people. thank you.

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Malcolm Little - Philip Cohran And The Artistic Heritage Ensemble (The Malcolm X Memorial (A Tribute In Music), 1968)

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