May 19, 2022 • 27 mins
Greetings and Salutations to all of the Kings, and Queens out there in the World Today!!
HERE WE ARE! May 19, 2022 celebrating and commemorating the life of Minister Malcolm X. Personally, Malcolm X is one of my favorite persons within the realms of Black Nationalism and Empowerment for Black Men and Women. This Episode is comprised critical theories and discussion topics that brings awareness to all people, but specifically Black People!
The Link below is one of Minister Malcolm X's most famous speech, in my opinion, "the Ballot or Bullet."
https://youtu.be/3uKbrtVwKeE
HERE WE ARE! May 19, 2022 celebrating and commemorating the life of Minister Malcolm X. Personally, Malcolm X is one of my favorite persons within the realms of Black Nationalism and Empowerment for Black Men and Women. This Episode is comprised critical theories and discussion topics that brings awareness to all people, but specifically Black People!
The Link below is one of Minister Malcolm X's most famous speech, in my opinion, "the Ballot or Bullet."
https://youtu.be/3uKbrtVwKeE
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(00:04):
Gritty's and salutations to all of thekings and the queens out there in the
world today. And I would liketo officially welcome you to another episode of
the Kingley Discussions podcast with yours trulythe host Jared Lewis. Listen, y'all.
(00:32):
We are all the platforms, andI want to make sure that y'all
never forget that we are on theseplatforms out here. Don't forget about us.
You can listen to all of ourprevious episodes, especially from whenever we
first started. All right, We'reon Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify,
Facebook, as well as the speakeras sp R e A K E
(00:58):
R. All right, guys,I'm ready to get into this episode so
much. I have waited all yearfor this episode right here, and I'm
too geeked up about it, Likefor real, today we celebrate on May
(01:21):
nineteenth, the birthday of Minister MalcolmX. And I'm just too geeked up
for this thing because like, MalcolmX is definitely one of the people that
I wish that I could meet andhave a conversation with because his mind,
(01:42):
what he was able to soak up, what he was able to gather,
the information that he possessed as wellas his oration with speech man. I
would have loved to meet this guy. I don't care nothing about that religiou
stuff. Just like he said,put your religion in your pocket. Let
it be between Let it be betweenyou and your God. Because if it
ain't no if it ain't work foryou by now, it ain't no good
(02:04):
at all. So that's that's whyI love this guy. Man, Malcolm
X's is one of the most profoundpeople that uh that I've come to learn
about. Uh. This this episode, this podcast episode is dedicated to the
memory as well as celebrating and commemoratingthe birthday of Minister Malcolm X. All
(02:29):
Right, the name of this episode, guys, is called Our Friend Malcolm
X. Let's go ahead and reallydive into uh what this episode is really
getting into. You know. Ijust think that one of the biggest discrepancies
(02:52):
that exists within growing our children andlearning history and allowing their minds to uh
dive into uh understanding who they areas black people is the uh secrecy of
of the things that really matter.We've all heard now that uh public education
(03:19):
is trying to uh put in criticalrace theory as something that will allow all
students within public schools to understand andlearn more about black people and the struggles
of black people, Uh, notjust black people, but Latinos and what
(03:45):
what they have, what Latinos havehad to deal with Indians, with Indians
have to deal with, you know, real Native American people. Uh,
you know, to really get downto what really counts as far as it
goes to American history. Me personally, I've been in the trenches before.
(04:09):
Just recently, you know, Ileft the public education sector. I've worked
in public education for twelve years.Ten years I spent as a bus driver,
but twelve years spent as an educator. And gods, and I'm not
(04:29):
even trying to be funny, butevery administrator, every teacher that oversees teaching
disseminates only a piece of critical racetheory or black history only in the month
of February. Now, you dohave some teachers that and do I say
(04:56):
that have a pigmentation of skin thatis contrary to you know, our founding
fathers. They have a tendency toplace in here or there throughout the school
(05:16):
year what it means to be ablack person, right, And I think
the biggest thing to really press asfar as public education is that parents need
to be sure that they are speakingup on the behalf of their children.
(05:43):
Don't allow your kid, your childrenyour child. Don't allow your child to
just go through about school and justbe trained to be something that they're not
training. That's you know that,it's a whole other different ballgame. Training
and teaching, those are two differentthings. I believe training should take place
(06:06):
at the house as opposed to teaching, but they both go in hand in
hand, So I'm not going togo there. But what I'm saying is
be involved in your children's education becausethere are some kinks within public education that
will reidentify the race of your childif you're not careful. Public school districts,
(06:33):
I do believe, as well asthe state level, the county levels,
on so forth, they present aI gotta say this, they present
a easy going, a more passiverepresentation of critical race theory and black history.
All right, but we're black everyday, We're not I'm black every
(06:59):
day. There's nothing to hide withthat. We being the fact that we're
black every day, we learn everyday how to be black. Day,
every week wake up, we learnhow to be black. And how to
operate with being black. I mean, it's amazing to me because if we
(07:24):
don't be involved in our children's education, their education system will train them and
teach them a whole totally different waythan the way that you would want them
to be raised. You all realizeit's twenty four hours in a day,
and if your child is spending sixhours, eight hours, that's a chunk
(07:49):
of the day six times what's that? What's that math problem? What's that?
Six times four twenty four? Sothat's a fourth of the day.
If six hours your children, yourchild is spending at the schoolhouse, that's
a quarter of the day. Andthen if your child is spending eight hours
(08:11):
at school, that's a third ofthe day. Eight times three is twenty
four, I do believe, allright, So eight times three is twenty
four. So that's a third ofyour child's day is being spent at school.
And you're allowing someone to feed yourchild knowledge, feed your child wisdom,
(08:37):
feed your child certain things. Andit's important to be sure what is
being instilled into them a quarter ofthe day, What is being instilled to
them a third of the day theygive our children the public education system,
(09:00):
I believe give children, students whatthey want them to know, Yeah,
what they want them to know.And being the fact that you and I,
whoever's listened to this podcast, beingthe fact that where I identify as
(09:24):
black, that's who I am,That's what I am. I ain't striving
away from that. We all knowthat black history is world history. It
ain't just American history, but it'sworld history. Black people play a big
(09:46):
part in world history, not justin American history. Some of our people
with some of the richest people inthe world. One day, maybe in
the podcast future, we'll be ableto reset searched the contents of that because
some of our ancestors were very wealthy, very rich. But anyway, where
(10:15):
there is freedom, there had tobe a bondage. Right. It's like
a cause and effect. Because somethinghappened, you have a result. That's
pretty much what it is. BecauseI snapped my finger, you heard a
(10:37):
noise. So where there's freedom,there was slavery, Okay, And I
do believe that. You know,during the early nineteen hundreds, a revolution
occurred and within this revolution, birthday, very prominent, an influential leader was
(11:03):
birthed. And I do believe it'sin nineteen twenty nine, nineteen twenty five.
May nineteenth, nineteen twenty five,Malcolm Little was born, and not
too many public educational systems do anythingor give any information on Malcolm X.
(11:35):
So this is why we're here forthis episode, guys. We are here
to commemorate the birthday as well ascelebrate the life of Malcolm X. We're
here to give Malcolm X his justdue. He stood for black nationalism as
(12:01):
well as for black men. AndI'm not even going to sugarcoat this for
anybody. Malcolm X was a radical. He was a radical, and there's
nothing to hide from his greatness.The only thing that there is to hide
from his greatness is those same administrators, those same legislators, those same educators
(12:30):
of the educational systems that choose toeliminate his contributions for black history. All
right, so let's go ahead andget into this. Okay, What does
Malcolm X mean to me? Right? What does Malcolm X mean to me?
When I was a child, Ilearned so much about black history persons,
(12:50):
but I didn't hear too much aboutMalcolm X. And the only reason,
I want to be clear, theonly reason why I heard about Malcolm
X and I have to commemorate inthe celebrate my mom because you know,
my mama was limitless whenever it cameto history. My mom is a historian,
she's a she's a living historian.I tell you, she wakes up
(13:13):
in the morning, she researches.I mean, she's a historian. And
you know, I'm really thankful formy mom because she still teaches me even
till today, that it takes morethan one person to make a mark on
history. Right, It's never contributedto one person. It's never contributed to
(13:35):
one thing. It took a collectiveeffort to stand up for the rights of
black people. One of the examplesis Reverend doctor Martin Luther King Junior.
A lot of people don't don't knowthis, but Reverend Martin Luther King Junior
had a right hand man named RalphAbernathy. All right, google him.
(13:58):
I mean Ralph, Ralph Abernathy waswas Indeed that guy, Ralph Aberphane was
doctor King's right hand man. Anythingthat doctor King needed done, mister Aberathy
he was able to get it donefor him. I mean, just just
just that simple. It wasn't noBatman or Robin. It was MLK and
(14:20):
Ralph. That I mean that itwasn't no one was better. One was
no No MLK, Ralph Aboneth.What MLK couldn't do, Ralph Abernathey was
able to do. Abanathy knew thatdoctor King had a gift for speech.
Now, this is the kind offriend that you need right here in your
life. Abernathy knew that doctor Kinghad a gift for speech, and he
(14:46):
made sure that doctor King's gift wouldbe exploited and used to the best of
its ability. That's the kind offriend that you need. You need a
friend that will expose what you're goodat instead of exposing the nastiness that's in
your life. Right along that samethought, Malcolm X was the same for
(15:11):
the Civil rights movement. The civilrights movement, just like you know,
the civil rights movement was good.It was it was. It was led
up by REVN. Dart Martin LutherKing Junior. The Civil rights movement was
was excellent, but it was amissing something. Y'all know what that is?
(15:37):
It was? It was it wasmissing. It was missing. It
was missing action. Right. Itneeded more than what we called hope for
tomorrow. Right. The civil movementwas good, but it needed more than
(16:03):
hope for tomorrow. The Civil Rightsmovement, although it was founded by prominent
Christian leaders, needed someone who possessedthe faith for today. Malcolm X,
to me, possessed a right nowfaith for all black people to understand who
(16:26):
they are and their greatness. Tobecome educated within yourself, no matter what
the degree, no matter how mucheducation, no matter how many letters that
you have behind your name, becomea person of knowledge. I want to
(16:53):
back up just a little bit.I want to be very clear what I
said. Okay, I'm not backingaway from this. I'm being real truth
for what I'm saying. Christian leadersneeded a Muslim minister to push them from
hope to faith. Yeah, Isay that again. Christian leaders, and
(17:15):
I'm gonna go even further. Christianministers, pastors needed a Muslim minister to
push them from hope to faith.We shall overcome presented only a hope.
(17:37):
And I'm not saying that that's bad, y'all. I'm not saying that that's
bad. I'm not saying hope isbad, and I'm not saying that the
Civil Rights movement was bad. I'msaying that the terminology by itself, hope
is not gonna get the job done. That's even Bible We Shall Overcome presents
(17:57):
a hope just fine, But itis faith that is gonna get the job
done. The lesson is this,y'all, check this out. The lesson
is neither can exist without the other. You must have hope before you can
have faith. Hope is the foundationof faith. Faith doesn't exist or happen
(18:19):
without hope. They both go handin hand. So just as much as
Malcolm X needed EMLK MLK needed MalcolmX, just it's just as much.
Okay, this is the way Ilike to see this, the prominence of
this formula right here. As faras when it comes to black empowerment and
(18:45):
things back then, Reverend Doctor MartinLuther King Junior served as the hope,
but Malcolm X served as the faith. Faith without works is dead. I
(19:11):
think that's somewhere in the Good book, y'all. Y'all go back and fact
check me and look at that.All right, So now we're going to
another segment of our podcast episode.We're gonna talk about some important dates to
acknowledge the life of Malcolm X.We're gonna commemorate his life and chronological order.
(19:32):
I want to highlight some of themajor things. May nineteenth, nineteen
twenty five. Malcolm Little was bornin Omaha, all right. In nineteen
forty six, Malcolm was sentenced toeight to ten years for an armed robbery
and served six years in Charlestown,Massachusetts State Prison from nineteen forty eight to
(19:53):
nineteen forty nine. He converts tothe Nation of Islam while he was in
pre nineteen fifty three, he changeshis name from Malcolm Little to Malcolm X
and becomes the assistant Minister of theNation of Islam's Detroit Temple. Now that's
something that I didn't realize, allright. Nineteen fifty four, he was
(20:18):
promoted to the Minister of the Nationof Islam's New York Temple. Nineteen fifty
eight, he married sister Betty Xin Lansing, Michigan. Nineteen sixty three,
the Nation of Islam orders Malcolm Xto be silent, allegedly because of
the remarks concerning the concerning President Kennedy'sassassination. Nineteen sixty four, Here we
(20:44):
go, guys, Malcolm X leavesthe Nation of Islam and starts his own
organization, the Muslim Mosque Incorporated.May nineteenth, that was March nineteen sixty
four. May nineteenth, nineteen sixtyfour starts the organization of Afro American Unity.
All right, African afro American Unity, a secular political group, and
(21:14):
the February fourteenth, nineteen sixty five, Malcolm X's home is firebombed, and
of course, on February twenty first, Malcolm X is assassinated. As he
begins speaking at the Autobon ball Roomin New York. Malcolm X means a
(21:37):
lot to Black history. His legacywill always be cemented among the greats.
And I just want y'all to listento an excerpt for one of his speeches.
(21:57):
I think everyone should really listen tothis speech. Here is is is
very self enlightening and it has alot of great information in it. But
this is an excerpt from the ballotor the bullet by Malcolm X. D
(22:23):
was on the same reason, why'tjust catching him from the semen your own
in the Googles, you said,a political impression canomic exploration in social gradation?
Am I? You remin his realListen, you can't done that at
(22:47):
anytime? You will nineteen sixty bothand you're walking around his seat and he's
your right. Yeah, and shimmyou do too much sing m you're doing
(23:11):
so much singing? Is s SS just that faith I was told y'all
about stop singing, start swinging.You can't see you're gonna breathe, but
(23:33):
you can't see a little bit.Okay, how's your clue? You see
what's doing? What do you hullhim? The h the world sho y'all
know who catches play is right?Fly like a butterfly. Ah, I
(23:56):
see it, you and generals andwe really what we do and we still
ourself. And I wanted us tolisten to that little excerpt from uh the
(24:23):
ballot or the bullet because you know, I I what he was talking about
is basically how the government has failedus. And that's even still to today.
Guys. I don't know about youall, but gas is still going
up. It's going higher and higherand higher. Uh. They call it
inflammation. Everything is going up exceptfor the except for the wages. And
(24:47):
you know, and and it's it'sit's literally Malcolm x S's words are really
coming into flourish and to today,Uh, we really need to start investing
back into black communities, start takingover back over our black communities. Whenever
people die, we need to makesure that we are leaving legacy and that
(25:10):
we are also taking care of whatour forefathers and our fore mothers fought so
hard for. It is so importantthat we don't forget where we come from.
Yes, we got to live fortoday and live for tomorrow, but
we cannot forget who we are.And this is the end of our podcast
(25:34):
episode. I want to thank eachand every one of you for celebrating and
commemorating with me on this podcast episodecalled Our Friend Malcolm X. And I
know y'all probably wondered, what inthe world, how in the world our
friend you talk about? You talkabout a radical with our friend? Yeah,
(25:59):
Malcolm X. Now, there wasa movie that we watched in school.
It was called Our Friend, OurFriend Martin, that was the name
of it. And I like thatmovie and you know it showed commemorated to
life and put out some big pointsof what MLK did. Well, this
is what this podcast episode is for. I want to point out some of
(26:22):
the good things that Malcolm Mixed didbecause he was exactly what he stood,
exactly what he's stood for a nationalist. It took something to make it took
something to make something. So withthat being said, I want us all
(26:51):
to choose today the best, tobe the best that you can be Black
people especially. Let us understand thepower of who we really are, impact
that we really had made, andlet's continue to make the difference and make
things happen. Y'ad bless I lovey'all. I'll catch y'all in the next
one. Peace,
Gritty's and salutations to all of thekings and the queens out there in the
world today. And I would liketo officially welcome you to another episode of
the Kingley Discussions podcast with yours trulythe host Jared Lewis. Listen, y'all.
(00:32):
We are all the platforms, andI want to make sure that y'all
never forget that we are on theseplatforms out here. Don't forget about us.
You can listen to all of ourprevious episodes, especially from whenever we
first started. All right, We'reon Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify,
Facebook, as well as the speakeras sp R e A K E
(00:58):
R. All right, guys,I'm ready to get into this episode so
much. I have waited all yearfor this episode right here, and I'm
too geeked up about it, Likefor real, today we celebrate on May
(01:21):
nineteenth, the birthday of Minister MalcolmX. And I'm just too geeked up
for this thing because like, MalcolmX is definitely one of the people that
I wish that I could meet andhave a conversation with because his mind,
(01:42):
what he was able to soak up, what he was able to gather,
the information that he possessed as wellas his oration with speech man. I
would have loved to meet this guy. I don't care nothing about that religiou
stuff. Just like he said,put your religion in your pocket. Let
it be between Let it be betweenyou and your God. Because if it
ain't no if it ain't work foryou by now, it ain't no good
(02:04):
at all. So that's that's whyI love this guy. Man, Malcolm
X's is one of the most profoundpeople that uh that I've come to learn
about. Uh. This this episode, this podcast episode is dedicated to the
memory as well as celebrating and commemoratingthe birthday of Minister Malcolm X. All
(02:29):
Right, the name of this episode, guys, is called Our Friend Malcolm
X. Let's go ahead and reallydive into uh what this episode is really
getting into. You know. Ijust think that one of the biggest discrepancies
(02:52):
that exists within growing our children andlearning history and allowing their minds to uh
dive into uh understanding who they areas black people is the uh secrecy of
of the things that really matter.We've all heard now that uh public education
(03:19):
is trying to uh put in criticalrace theory as something that will allow all
students within public schools to understand andlearn more about black people and the struggles
of black people, Uh, notjust black people, but Latinos and what
(03:45):
what they have, what Latinos havehad to deal with Indians, with Indians
have to deal with, you know, real Native American people. Uh,
you know, to really get downto what really counts as far as it
goes to American history. Me personally, I've been in the trenches before.
(04:09):
Just recently, you know, Ileft the public education sector. I've worked
in public education for twelve years.Ten years I spent as a bus driver,
but twelve years spent as an educator. And gods, and I'm not
(04:29):
even trying to be funny, butevery administrator, every teacher that oversees teaching
disseminates only a piece of critical racetheory or black history only in the month
of February. Now, you dohave some teachers that and do I say
(04:56):
that have a pigmentation of skin thatis contrary to you know, our founding
fathers. They have a tendency toplace in here or there throughout the school
(05:16):
year what it means to be ablack person, right, And I think
the biggest thing to really press asfar as public education is that parents need
to be sure that they are speakingup on the behalf of their children.
(05:43):
Don't allow your kid, your childrenyour child. Don't allow your child to
just go through about school and justbe trained to be something that they're not
training. That's you know that,it's a whole other different ballgame. Training
and teaching, those are two differentthings. I believe training should take place
(06:06):
at the house as opposed to teaching, but they both go in hand in
hand, So I'm not going togo there. But what I'm saying is
be involved in your children's education becausethere are some kinks within public education that
will reidentify the race of your childif you're not careful. Public school districts,
(06:33):
I do believe, as well asthe state level, the county levels,
on so forth, they present aI gotta say this, they present
a easy going, a more passiverepresentation of critical race theory and black history.
All right, but we're black everyday, We're not I'm black every
(06:59):
day. There's nothing to hide withthat. We being the fact that we're
black every day, we learn everyday how to be black. Day,
every week wake up, we learnhow to be black. And how to
operate with being black. I mean, it's amazing to me because if we
(07:24):
don't be involved in our children's education, their education system will train them and
teach them a whole totally different waythan the way that you would want them
to be raised. You all realizeit's twenty four hours in a day,
and if your child is spending sixhours, eight hours, that's a chunk
(07:49):
of the day six times what's that? What's that math problem? What's that?
Six times four twenty four? Sothat's a fourth of the day.
If six hours your children, yourchild is spending at the schoolhouse, that's
a quarter of the day. Andthen if your child is spending eight hours
(08:11):
at school, that's a third ofthe day. Eight times three is twenty
four, I do believe, allright, So eight times three is twenty
four. So that's a third ofyour child's day is being spent at school.
And you're allowing someone to feed yourchild knowledge, feed your child wisdom,
(08:37):
feed your child certain things. Andit's important to be sure what is
being instilled into them a quarter ofthe day, What is being instilled to
them a third of the day theygive our children the public education system,
(09:00):
I believe give children, students whatthey want them to know, Yeah,
what they want them to know.And being the fact that you and I,
whoever's listened to this podcast, beingthe fact that where I identify as
(09:24):
black, that's who I am,That's what I am. I ain't striving
away from that. We all knowthat black history is world history. It
ain't just American history, but it'sworld history. Black people play a big
(09:46):
part in world history, not justin American history. Some of our people
with some of the richest people inthe world. One day, maybe in
the podcast future, we'll be ableto reset searched the contents of that because
some of our ancestors were very wealthy, very rich. But anyway, where
(10:15):
there is freedom, there had tobe a bondage. Right. It's like
a cause and effect. Because somethinghappened, you have a result. That's
pretty much what it is. BecauseI snapped my finger, you heard a
(10:37):
noise. So where there's freedom,there was slavery, Okay, And I
do believe that. You know,during the early nineteen hundreds, a revolution
occurred and within this revolution, birthday, very prominent, an influential leader was
(11:03):
birthed. And I do believe it'sin nineteen twenty nine, nineteen twenty five.
May nineteenth, nineteen twenty five,Malcolm Little was born, and not
too many public educational systems do anythingor give any information on Malcolm X.
(11:35):
So this is why we're here forthis episode, guys. We are here
to commemorate the birthday as well ascelebrate the life of Malcolm X. We're
here to give Malcolm X his justdue. He stood for black nationalism as
(12:01):
well as for black men. AndI'm not even going to sugarcoat this for
anybody. Malcolm X was a radical. He was a radical, and there's
nothing to hide from his greatness.The only thing that there is to hide
from his greatness is those same administrators, those same legislators, those same educators
(12:30):
of the educational systems that choose toeliminate his contributions for black history. All
right, so let's go ahead andget into this. Okay, What does
Malcolm X mean to me? Right? What does Malcolm X mean to me?
When I was a child, Ilearned so much about black history persons,
(12:50):
but I didn't hear too much aboutMalcolm X. And the only reason,
I want to be clear, theonly reason why I heard about Malcolm
X and I have to commemorate inthe celebrate my mom because you know,
my mama was limitless whenever it cameto history. My mom is a historian,
she's a she's a living historian.I tell you, she wakes up
(13:13):
in the morning, she researches.I mean, she's a historian. And
you know, I'm really thankful formy mom because she still teaches me even
till today, that it takes morethan one person to make a mark on
history. Right, It's never contributedto one person. It's never contributed to
(13:35):
one thing. It took a collectiveeffort to stand up for the rights of
black people. One of the examplesis Reverend doctor Martin Luther King Junior.
A lot of people don't don't knowthis, but Reverend Martin Luther King Junior
had a right hand man named RalphAbernathy. All right, google him.
(13:58):
I mean Ralph, Ralph Abernathy waswas Indeed that guy, Ralph Aberphane was
doctor King's right hand man. Anythingthat doctor King needed done, mister Aberathy
he was able to get it donefor him. I mean, just just
just that simple. It wasn't noBatman or Robin. It was MLK and
(14:20):
Ralph. That I mean that itwasn't no one was better. One was
no No MLK, Ralph Aboneth.What MLK couldn't do, Ralph Abernathey was
able to do. Abanathy knew thatdoctor King had a gift for speech.
Now, this is the kind offriend that you need right here in your
life. Abernathy knew that doctor Kinghad a gift for speech, and he
(14:46):
made sure that doctor King's gift wouldbe exploited and used to the best of
its ability. That's the kind offriend that you need. You need a
friend that will expose what you're goodat instead of exposing the nastiness that's in
your life. Right along that samethought, Malcolm X was the same for
(15:11):
the Civil rights movement. The civilrights movement, just like you know,
the civil rights movement was good.It was it was. It was led
up by REVN. Dart Martin LutherKing Junior. The Civil rights movement was
was excellent, but it was amissing something. Y'all know what that is?
(15:37):
It was? It was it wasmissing. It was missing. It
was missing action. Right. Itneeded more than what we called hope for
tomorrow. Right. The civil movementwas good, but it needed more than
(16:03):
hope for tomorrow. The Civil Rightsmovement, although it was founded by prominent
Christian leaders, needed someone who possessedthe faith for today. Malcolm X,
to me, possessed a right nowfaith for all black people to understand who
(16:26):
they are and their greatness. Tobecome educated within yourself, no matter what
the degree, no matter how mucheducation, no matter how many letters that
you have behind your name, becomea person of knowledge. I want to
(16:53):
back up just a little bit.I want to be very clear what I
said. Okay, I'm not backingaway from this. I'm being real truth
for what I'm saying. Christian leadersneeded a Muslim minister to push them from
hope to faith. Yeah, Isay that again. Christian leaders, and
(17:15):
I'm gonna go even further. Christianministers, pastors needed a Muslim minister to
push them from hope to faith.We shall overcome presented only a hope.
(17:37):
And I'm not saying that that's bad, y'all. I'm not saying that that's
bad. I'm not saying hope isbad, and I'm not saying that the
Civil Rights movement was bad. I'msaying that the terminology by itself, hope
is not gonna get the job done. That's even Bible We Shall Overcome presents
(17:57):
a hope just fine, But itis faith that is gonna get the job
done. The lesson is this,y'all, check this out. The lesson
is neither can exist without the other. You must have hope before you can
have faith. Hope is the foundationof faith. Faith doesn't exist or happen
(18:19):
without hope. They both go handin hand. So just as much as
Malcolm X needed EMLK MLK needed MalcolmX, just it's just as much.
Okay, this is the way Ilike to see this, the prominence of
this formula right here. As faras when it comes to black empowerment and
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things back then, Reverend Doctor MartinLuther King Junior served as the hope,
but Malcolm X served as the faith. Faith without works is dead. I
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think that's somewhere in the Good book, y'all. Y'all go back and fact
check me and look at that.All right, So now we're going to
another segment of our podcast episode.We're gonna talk about some important dates to
acknowledge the life of Malcolm X.We're gonna commemorate his life and chronological order.
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I want to highlight some of themajor things. May nineteenth, nineteen
twenty five. Malcolm Little was bornin Omaha, all right. In nineteen
forty six, Malcolm was sentenced toeight to ten years for an armed robbery
and served six years in Charlestown,Massachusetts State Prison from nineteen forty eight to
(19:53):
nineteen forty nine. He converts tothe Nation of Islam while he was in
pre nineteen fifty three, he changeshis name from Malcolm Little to Malcolm X
and becomes the assistant Minister of theNation of Islam's Detroit Temple. Now that's
something that I didn't realize, allright. Nineteen fifty four, he was
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promoted to the Minister of the Nationof Islam's New York Temple. Nineteen fifty
eight, he married sister Betty Xin Lansing, Michigan. Nineteen sixty three,
the Nation of Islam orders Malcolm Xto be silent, allegedly because of
the remarks concerning the concerning President Kennedy'sassassination. Nineteen sixty four, Here we
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go, guys, Malcolm X leavesthe Nation of Islam and starts his own
organization, the Muslim Mosque Incorporated.May nineteenth, that was March nineteen sixty
four. May nineteenth, nineteen sixtyfour starts the organization of Afro American Unity.
All right, African afro American Unity, a secular political group, and
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the February fourteenth, nineteen sixty five, Malcolm X's home is firebombed, and
of course, on February twenty first, Malcolm X is assassinated. As he
begins speaking at the Autobon ball Roomin New York. Malcolm X means a
(21:37):
lot to Black history. His legacywill always be cemented among the greats.
And I just want y'all to listento an excerpt for one of his speeches.
(21:57):
I think everyone should really listen tothis speech. Here is is is
very self enlightening and it has alot of great information in it. But
this is an excerpt from the ballotor the bullet by Malcolm X. D
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was on the same reason, why'tjust catching him from the semen your own
in the Googles, you said,a political impression canomic exploration in social gradation?
Am I? You remin his realListen, you can't done that at
(22:47):
anytime? You will nineteen sixty bothand you're walking around his seat and he's
your right. Yeah, and shimmyou do too much sing m you're doing
(23:11):
so much singing? Is s SS just that faith I was told y'all
about stop singing, start swinging.You can't see you're gonna breathe, but
(23:33):
you can't see a little bit.Okay, how's your clue? You see
what's doing? What do you hullhim? The h the world sho y'all
know who catches play is right?Fly like a butterfly. Ah, I
(23:56):
see it, you and generals andwe really what we do and we still
ourself. And I wanted us tolisten to that little excerpt from uh the
(24:23):
ballot or the bullet because you know, I I what he was talking about
is basically how the government has failedus. And that's even still to today.
Guys. I don't know about youall, but gas is still going
up. It's going higher and higherand higher. Uh. They call it
inflammation. Everything is going up exceptfor the except for the wages. And
(24:47):
you know, and and it's it'sit's literally Malcolm x S's words are really
coming into flourish and to today,Uh, we really need to start investing
back into black communities, start takingover back over our black communities. Whenever
people die, we need to makesure that we are leaving legacy and that
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we are also taking care of whatour forefathers and our fore mothers fought so
hard for. It is so importantthat we don't forget where we come from.
Yes, we got to live fortoday and live for tomorrow, but
we cannot forget who we are.And this is the end of our podcast
(25:34):
episode. I want to thank eachand every one of you for celebrating and
commemorating with me on this podcast episodecalled Our Friend Malcolm X. And I
know y'all probably wondered, what inthe world, how in the world our
friend you talk about? You talkabout a radical with our friend? Yeah,
(25:59):
Malcolm X. Now, there wasa movie that we watched in school.
It was called Our Friend, OurFriend Martin, that was the name
of it. And I like thatmovie and you know it showed commemorated to
life and put out some big pointsof what MLK did. Well, this
is what this podcast episode is for. I want to point out some of
(26:22):
the good things that Malcolm Mixed didbecause he was exactly what he stood,
exactly what he's stood for a nationalist. It took something to make it took
something to make something. So withthat being said, I want us all
(26:51):
to choose today the best, tobe the best that you can be Black
people especially. Let us understand thepower of who we really are, impact
that we really had made, andlet's continue to make the difference and make
things happen. Y'ad bless I lovey'all. I'll catch y'all in the next
one. Peace,
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