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Malcolm X, one of the most influential African American leaders of the 20th Century, was born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19 Shortly after Malcolm was born the family moved to Lansing, Michigan. Earl Little his father joined Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) where he publicly advocated black nationalist beliefs, prompting the local white supremacist Black Legion to set fire to their home. Little was killed by a streetcar in 1931. Authorities ruled it a suicide but the family believed he was killed by white supremacists.

Malcolm dropped out of high school after a teacher ridiculed his aspirations to become a lawyer. Malcolm worked odd jobs in Boston and then moved to Harlem in 1943 where he drifted into a life of “hustling.” He avoided the draft in World War II by declaring his intent to organize black soldiers to attack whites which led to his classification as “mentally disqualified for military service.”

Malcolm was arrested for burglary in Boston in 1946 and received a ten year prison sentence. There he joined the Nation of Islam (NOI). Upon his parole in 1952, Malcolm was called to Chicago, Illinois by NOI leader, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Like other converts, he changed his surname to “X,” symbolizing, he said, the rejection of “slave names” and his inability to claim his ancestral African name.

Recognizing his promise as a speaker and organizer for the Nation of Islam, Muhammad sent Malcolm to Boston and then in 1954 to Temple Number Seven in Harlem. Although New York’s one million blacks comprised the largest African American urban population in the United States, Malcolm noted that “there weren’t enough Muslims to fill a city bus. “Fishing” in Christian storefront churches and at competing black nationalist meetings, Malcolm built up the membership of Temple Seven. He also met his future wife, Sister Betty X, a nursing student who joined the temple in 1956.

Malcolm X quickly became a national public figure in July 1959 when CBS aired Mike Wallace’s expose on the NOI, “The Hate That Hate Produced.” This documentary revealed the views of the NOI, of which Malcolm was the principal spokesperson and showed those views to be in sharp contrast to those of most well-known African American leaders of the time.

Soon, however, Malcolm was increasingly frustrated by the NOI’s bureaucratic structure and refusal to participate in the Civil Rights Movement. His November 1963 speech in Detroit, “Message to the Grass Roots,” a bold attack on racism and a call for black unity, foreshadowed the split with his spiritual mentor, Elijah Muhammad. However, Malcolm on December 1 was suspended from the NOI for his comments in responce to JFK Death, “chickens coming home to roost” which to Muslims meant that Allah was punishing white America for crimes against black people.

Malcolm used the suspension to announce on March 8, 1964, his break with the NOI and his creation of the Muslim Mosque, Inc. Three months later he formed a strictly political group, called the Organization of Afro American Unity (OAAU) which was roughly patterned after the Organization of African Unity (OAU).

His dramatic political transformation was revealed when he spoke to the Militant Labor Forum of the Socialist Worker’s Party. By April 1964, while speaking at a CORE rally in Cleveland, Ohio, Malcolm gave his famous “The Ballot or the Bullet” speech in which he described black Americans as “victims of democracy.”

Malcolm traveled to Africa and the Middle East in late Spring 1964 and was received like a visiting head of state in many countries including Egypt, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, and Ghana. While there, Malcolm made his hajj to Mecca, Saudi Arabia and added El-Hajj to his official NOI name Malik El-Shabazz.

The transformed Malcolm reiterated these views when he addressed an OAAU rally in New York, declaring for a pan-African struggle “by any means necessary.” Malcolm spent six months in Africa in 1964 in an unsuccessful attempt to get international support for a United Nations investigation of human rights violations of Afro Americans in the United States. Upon his return to New York, his home was firebombed. Events continued to spiral downward and on February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan.

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

The results are in and the tush push will stay. Men will continue to touch each other's butts in professional football. Those big, strong men will still put their big hands on each others' butts, and they will push. Turn on a football game and you will see those men butt pushing. Touching and pushing butts. Yeah, push those tushes, boys. Touch them. Push them. Put your hands on those tushes and push.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

I'll give AI art people this, I'd they use it to make new digimon that's cannon

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago
[-] ratboy@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Getting drunk (but not too drunk) is so lit

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[-] Moss@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

my fucking car insurance cancelled on me because they fucked up and didnt file a document i sent them, and their shitty website wont let me upload a single pdf, and their customer support hung up on me, so i have to go to a physical branch now, but obviously i cant fucking drive. insurance is so fucking stupid i hate insurance companies so much

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago
[-] JD_Vyvanse@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

i usually skip my adhd meds today b/c of lighter workload reasons but they sent me to cover at a different job site today b/c of repairs at my usual one & they clearly don't know what to do with me and i have no idea what's going on here and honestly i think i'm in one of the shallower layers of hell (and if this had happened just like two days later my annual leave probation would be over so i could have just taken a day off with a use-it-or-lose-it leave day). fuck this malaise nightmare reality aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

srry i just wanted to vent & gripe hahaha i love being neurodivergent it's so lit

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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Andor Nerds, i have slowly added more things to my MTW meme of Saw Gerrera what do you think about it? the new thing i added was the "brigates of Martyr Nemik"

[-] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

me: i'm smart, so much smarter than all these fucking people. slugs.

also me: how the fuck do you start this lawnmower monke-beepboop

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[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

One of those days where I just dicked around all day

I think I overworked myself and fried my brain. Oh well tomorrow is a fresh start. May as well dick around a bit more. In for a penny

[-] homhom9000@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

I'm learning to drink water at work because the ice that melts in my coffee isn't enough anymore.

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[-] RION@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Can't believe Malcolm ripped off Ender Wiggin with that quote. Is nothing sacred

[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Mariners got shut out by the fucking White Sox 1-0

emilie-come-on

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[-] Carl@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Spent the last few months telling myself I was gonna keep up with my online classes and not have to crunch out a semester's worth of assignments in a week

but here I am crunching god damn

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Goon Girl (2014)

[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Sharing a meme I made for the recent Capital reading thread:

Inside the Capitalist, there are two wolves:

"Consume profits" two-wolves-1 two-wolves-2 "Reinvest for greater profits"

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Reminded to hop back to Malcolm X. Too tired to really focus on my banjo, but it's at least from me doing some serious exercise, helping on chores, and some admittedly limited activism. Still, crazy to have all these hours available and I'm spacing out and staring at my phone way too much.

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Please inject the part 9 jojo into me. I need my funny troupe of queer neurodivergent lumpenproletariat youngsters to rob settler Italians in Hawaii. dubois-finger-guns

(yes this was a thinly-veiled advertisement for jojo part 9).

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

On May 19 2025, Scott Adams (Creator of Dilbert) revealed on his X Account that he had prostate cancer which had spread to his bones, and that he only had a short time left to live.

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[-] rhubarb@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

I work at a Sun Company help desk, and every day some genius calls in to complain that they have paid their Sun bill but aren't getting any sunshine, and I have to troubleshoot their problem with my little script even though they all have the exact same problem, there are clouds in the way. Motherfucker what do you expect me to do about it, call the fucking Cloud Company.

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[-] EllipSis@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

CBT really is insane like wow I genuinely feel changed ever since I learned how it works. I'm still a bit flimsy, but if I continue on applying it to my life then eventually it'll be instinctive and I'll be happier :)

[-] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

It always cooks my noodle the two uses of that acronym

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[-] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Im thinking of compiling notes on Ukraine-Russia war just so I can have better recall when i start talking to people about it. Maybe for other countries/geopolitical conflicts as well.

How do you all organize all this information?

[-] Losurdo_Enjoyer@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

cringe metaposting goodbye postbye everyone hopefully i never make an account again, getting into arguments where no one assumes good faith with you on this godforsaken website actually drives me insane every single time and i'd rather just go back to how i used to browse the internet: complete ghost who never interacts with anyone. i wasnt worthy of this account name anyways... thanks for all the good times, my final message: read losurdo!!!

[-] homhom9000@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Anyone successfully negotiate against rent increases? I've been here ~4 years and rent went up ~30% throughout the years and I think it's ridiculous but can't move again

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago
[-] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Watched the Ahsoka show finally

Don't really think I was missing much putting it off tbh

live-slug-reaction

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[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Bit idea: Morgan Spurlock new doc where he just follows the top recommended video from YouTube for a month, call it Radicalize Me

[-] peppersky@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

I don't want to do anything anymore

[-] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Saw this police narrative in a Maine State court opinion:

spoilerAt 7:45 a.m. on July 7, 2023, an officer of the Cumberland Police Department was traveling east on Tuttle Road in an unmarked cruiser. He observed two individuals riding bicycles side-by-side ahead of him, also traveling east. Ray was riding to the left of the other cyclist and slightly to the left of the white fog line. Upon catching up to the cyclists, the officer slowed down and traveled behind them at approximately seventeen miles per hour for a short period of time. The officer then pulled his vehicle up beside the cyclists and said, “Single file, guys, single file.” Ray then yelled, “You can go f**k yourself.” The officer applied his brakes and activated the blue lights on his cruiser, and both cyclists pulled over to the side. The officer issued Ray a violation summons and complaint for failure to keep to the right of the road.
The violation was thrown out because the law is vague as to what "right side of the road" means; Meaning, is it to the right of the lane, or right of the road?

[-] AdmiralDoohickey@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

When I am in full work mode for weeks and I don't really experience media I have an intense desire to collect yu-gi-oh cards, which disappears once I play a good game / watch a good anime. I had understood that people consume useless stuff because they want to feel something when they don't have time for a more time-consuming but more satisfying activity that has some substance, but feeling it myself is a whole other beast.

Why can't I work 4 days / week or something, I am not even asking to not work at all. My job is too stressful to have to go to the office and talk with representatives of our client everyday. Does everyone feel this way regardless of mental illness or neurodiversity?

scared

[-] tocopherol@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Did y'all know lemmy.dbzer0 copied the hexbear tagline thing? Mostly various quotes from anarchists and socialists. They do have one though "yeet the rich (we stole this from hexbear don't tell them)".

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[-] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Going just on vibes, but a woman intelligence based caster is not a witch, she’s still a wizard, Witches are their own thing, with their nature based spells and arcana, they’re more like druids. Like tho. I dont know enough about druids to tell if they’re any closer

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