“Secondly, I’ve always believed it to be a mistake for Malcolm to allow his wife and children to be the target of violence coming from those who wanted him to die. It is fully understood that during that era, nearly everyone was under pressure to get married. But the truth is that a soldier on the battlefield has to be careful about who he puts into harm’s way. Some might consider it to be selfish and myopic on the part of both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X to risk the lives of their families (perhaps against their will) and to leave their kids without a father. Their sacrifices are certainly appreciated, but one can easily understand why their wives may have been agitated by their predicament.”

Most people involved in the civil rights movement had children. My mother had six daughters when our house was threatened with bombs. What was my reaction as a six year old? For some reason, at that young age, I understood the importance of what my mother was doing. I wasn’t afraid to die. If my mother had died, I would have been heartbroken. I had no delusions that we lived in a safe world. My mother, and others like her, were struggling to make it safe. We’ve got a long way to go.

Manning Marable does the same thing white scholars do, they take an opinion, assumption, or unsubstantiated source and over time it turns to a possibility, then a probability, then a fact.

If you don’t know then say you don’t know. I’m tired of these ivory tower negroes who benefited from Malcolm and Dr Kings legacy critiquing things in such an unscholarly manner. Lord knows if they ever actually interviewed or asked people who were actually in the movement. This clown actually had the nerve to insinuate people involved in the killing who are still alive and were not involved. Please will you negroes take the Doctors off of your name you are not doctors, you are negros who white people bestowed a title on. A doctor can heal, treat, and improve after his analyzation. You negroes are glorified ghetto reporters and snitches.

For those interested in reading a more academically worth review of Manning’s “Malcolm X”, I would suggest that they read the following articles:

http://mxmission.blogspot.com/2011/04/paper-tiger-manning-marables-poison-pen.html

http://www.rawcottonblog.com/2011/04/laymans-review-of-marables-malcolm-x.html