Scared to Death of Their Own Shadows!

And we love him and many of us see in him a model for our lives, not because he was Black but because he was anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism – a man of and for the people, the working class, the poor. Malcolm was murdered, assassinated with the help of the Nation of Islam, by the forces in this society who maintain and advance capitalism and imperialism. Martin L. King was murdered, assassinated for his stand against capitalism and imperialism – not for promoting the �American Dream.�

As my friend indicated in the email, Dunn was hosting a discussion on Manning Marable�s Malcolm: A Life of Reinvention. I wrote two articles on this book in my column in BlackCommentator.com (The U.S.�s Romantic Remake of COINTELPRO in Africa and Marable�s Malcolm X, A Representative for Hope and Human Dignity not long after it was published. In fact, it was published last year, a few days after we lost its author. I should also add that Manning Marable also wrote a column in BlackCommentator.com.