tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22752109.post1882878407096230312..comments2023-12-21T07:05:42.464-05:00Comments on Erik's Choice: I Have a Dream DetroitErik Donald Francehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332500850365598564noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22752109.post-71192255684707193512007-02-27T11:16:00.000-05:002007-02-27T11:16:00.000-05:00That was the gist of article-- the author stated t...That was the gist of article-- the author stated that King had, in his words, "left him cold." The Beatles/Stones thing is a brilliant analogy. I know I still have the issue-- it was really good. Email me your address (bpeterlinz@yahoo.com) and I'll photocopy the Malcom article and mail it to you.Johnny Yenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06561248220244037567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22752109.post-45699828299307047382007-02-26T17:08:00.000-05:002007-02-26T17:08:00.000-05:00Erik,I'm surprised to see you give even a modest p...Erik,<BR/><BR/>I'm surprised to see you give even a modest plug for Farrakhan, a man who openly scorns things which you seem to value- gay rights, racial tolerance, etc.<BR/><BR/>Not to mention that the NoI has this disturbing belief that white people were created by an evil scientist or a demon (I lose track of which) named Yakoub to plague black people.Pandayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11103853686978003169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22752109.post-60001358578421621162007-02-26T17:00:00.000-05:002007-02-26T17:00:00.000-05:00Johnny, love Malcolm Speaks and always graviated m...Johnny, love <I>Malcolm Speaks</I> and always graviated more toward him than MLK, sort of like the Stones vs. the Beatles tone for civil rights if that makes sense. <BR/><BR/>I'd love to read the <I>Esquire</I> take. Sounds fun.Erik Donald Francehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02332500850365598564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22752109.post-41863735606274721022007-02-25T16:33:00.000-05:002007-02-25T16:33:00.000-05:00I came to be very impressed with Malcolm X after r...I came to be very impressed with Malcolm X after reading "Malcom Speaks," a collection of Malcolm's speeches over a period of 5 or 6 years up to his death. You can see the change-- his Hajj was a profound, life-changing experience-- I'm glad Spike Lee depicted this in the movie. He came to see racism as a human problem, not just a black American problem. And like King, toward the end of his life, he began to connect the problems of black Americans to politics and economics. <BR/><BR/>Esquire magazine put out a special issue back in 1982, which I read on a train trip from Chicago to San Francisco. They had writers like Terry Southern, Tom Robbins and others writing about who they felt who the 100 most important Americans of the 20th century were. The little bio of Malcolm painted a very different picture of the private man versus his public firebrand image. He was chatty, gregarious and gossipy.Johnny Yenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06561248220244037567noreply@blogger.com