A righteous testimony. Appreciation from a skinny old white guy.

I’m 22. I read the autobiography last year. It’s really challenged a lot of what I thought about Michigan, and about America.

Well written and moving.

Well said, Sir.

True, but brother Malcolm X didn’t identify himself as an American rather a HUMAN BEING. He’s respected by everyone from his brothers and sisters in the Islamic world to the rest of the world. May Allah continue to BLESS him as well as all of us in this life and hereafter.

@michaelhodge2104 I said the same thing but you know the white elites in Hollywood would've never allowed that.

Hollywood owe Denzel for playing Malcolm X, Movie will bring you to tears.

I was so irritated they did not give him the Academy Award for his portrayal of Malcolm X. They waited to award him for Training Day where he plays a violent, corrupt cop.

@Jan96106 they like seeing us play the villain, not the hero

Amen

They will never teach Malcolm X in schools!!! He teaches anti establishment and eye for an eye , he believed in revolution!!!! They’re scared of brother Malcolm!!! But there are in thinks about Martin they won’t teach as well. Martin was for reparations!

I'm glad you got to hear the stories

The difference between wanting to be educated vs. educating yourself. When you are being educated, you are being told about a journey. When you are educating yourself, you are taking your own journey.

Yes indeed.

Me Too, they taught us what they wanted us to know, I found Malcom X later in life, it changed my political ideas, he saw what was coming and he saw it 50 years ago, there was a reason they didn’t teach us about X and still today the media still ignores him, 🤔

No lies spoken here

The movie opens up by saying “characters and events have been changed for dramatic purposes “, which means that it is NOT a documentary and they take the freedom to lie, for dramatic effect! It is NOT a true depiction of true events! These devils know how Black folks think! They know when Black people see a “movie” about someone like Malcolm, we automatically equate it with something true, in spite of being told otherwise? I cannot count the Black folks I have had to clarify this point to who had taken the movie as true events! This was not a true to life portrayal of Malcolm X , neither was it intended to be, but most who do not think critically have deified this narrative of Malcolm! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!

@@cactusqltr The movie was based on the autobiography of Malcolm X as told to author Alex Haley. I'm inclined to trust Malcolm's version over those he sought to protect Elijah Muhammad. Unchecked power is unchecked power.

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You're dad is a real one.

We had to drive across town to see it...to the black side of town. 🙄

Spike Lee didn't do anything with all that extra money he received. He just made a 3hr film instead of a 2hr film, not a better film. I remember so wanting the movie to be great (the promotion and subsequent hype around it were extraordinary) only to end up disappointed for getting exactly what I had predicted to friends. The Autobiography of Malcolm X was also my favorite book so I was equally as concerned as Spike Lee that the story should be handled right and to this end, I wrote a paper expressing my concerns about Spikes Lee's making of the move and called it "SPIKE!... DO THE RIGHT THING" where I stated all my concerns about why I did not feel that Spike Lee was going to do the film justice. This is because I'd seen his other movies and was always left feeling that he may be a decent (and Iconic) moviemaker but not such a good storyteller. Casting himself in one of the leading roles as Shorty, only served to distort the true facts and true significance of the role the Shorty character actually played in Malcolm's criminal life, whereas Malcolm's close friend and associate Sammy, who helped school Malcolm to certain points of street hustling and whose inclusion and storyline would have better aluminated the life of Malcolm the street hustler, scarcely gets a mention. Why??... It's simple, Spike Lee was better suited to depict the diminutive character of Shorty the musician, than the taller, suave-looking Sammy the Pimp. I'm pretty certain none of the other potential directorial candidates would have done this just to receive an acting credit in the movie. Spike often lets his Ego get the better of him highlighted by the fact that you only ever see Spike Lee the actor in movies where he is also the director and or producer. Spike Lee with the credit card made "SHE GOTTA HAVE IT" practically rebirthed the black film industry (after the somewhat misguided and short live black exploitation era of the early 70's), but in my opinion, he made a pig's ear of Alex Haley's amazing Autobiography of Malcolm X.

@@beyondthepage9389 you think Jewison would've done a better job? Spike is not perfect (who is??) but I still think it was the right film at the right time with the right director.

​@@zapatasghost Do I think that Jewson would do a better job???... You must be saying that because I'm certainly not. All I am saying is that with all the love and passion that Lee had for Malcolm X and the making of the movie, it was not the powerful story that it could have been. And that inserting himself into one of the lead roles was a little narcissistic.

Amen blessings we r chosen ones y dey haters but vegence is mine says Yah!

Don't recall Spike Lee exposing his beloved KKK Planned Parenthood being the reason the black population is declining while Hispanics are twice the population that black Americans are.

You're right! He did become Malcolm.💯%

I totally agree, He got robbed !!!

Yes, Denzel was robbed

We have Dr Umar Johnson for now!!!!

@@milestone_achiever4634 Hahahahahaha. Umar Johnson? You're kidding, right? He's been effing up trying to open his school for about EIGHT YEARS.

What about Malcolm X teacher The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad?

@@milestone_achiever4634 What about Minister Louis Farrakhan who is a 100 times smarter and more principled than Malcolm X? I knew older brothers in the NOI who personally knew Malcom X and spent lots of time with him and Malcolm X had a trusting relationship with some of them. I was told some things by them that I dare not reveal!

@@CribNotes Evidently you don’t know that the NOI had University of Islam schools systems in many cities throughout ameriKKKa? We had our own farmland growing our own food and our own markets to sell our products in. We taught that we don’t need albinos! The albinos psychologically needed the dependency of Black people in ameriKKKa to make themselves feel superior.

All of them were negros. the people he named were all descendants of chattel American slavery.

I read your comment then checked my watch.

Norman Jewison directed a soldier's story and hurricane.

Denzel got robbed on that academy award that year!! He literally became Malcolm X 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾💯

Love this dude, he has never forgotten where and who he comes from.

Absolutely was

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That 3 letter agency took out several great leaders

@@SaintPatrick1970 after all these years his words ring even more true today than they did over half a century ago

InshaAllAh Jannah brother 🙏

Who’d they take out? CIA I believe your referring to.

This was NOT a documentary as the opening credits tell you! Or did you just blank that part out? This was a propaganda piece, and full of intentional lies! How we gonna romanize over a pack of lies? The people who produced that garbage was the abject enemies to Malcolm X!!

Most definitely

Most Definitely.

Frfr frfr frfr frfr!!!!! 💯 I'm glad he finally got it for Training Day, but he should have won it for The Hurricane tooo

TRUE FACTUAL ACTUAL

Without a doubt 💯

it was media

@Magma Raymaker . Kween Kleokatra media that made us feel his spirit in an unbelievable way!

That cry Angela Bassett let out still does something 2 me

Facts.

Yes indeedy

Aameen.

That's one of my most memorable phrases from the LATE GREAT HONORABLE MALCOLM X AL-SHABAZZ. There's so so many others but that was the at UC Berkeley for me on my last straw the feeling of giving up was an option after that"BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY " And I graduated 7 months after the movie after feeling like giving up not just school but life, that one phrase sat my soul and fire and put fire beneath my feet and the seat was to damn hot to be steal. Until this very day i think of that when feeling wiry i can't won't stop, I forget who sings that but that's another saying i live by and until this very day my husband and I have 5 adult hell middle age adult 2 of them but only God fix and heal the broken outta my 5 children I've got 5 success stories 4 of my children are doing exceptional well 1 of them are fighting his demons and I've nearly lost my mind trying th o fix him but God keeps telling me to get outta his way and currently my son is in jail and again I'm powerless he's well rounded educated young man just has to find himself he's not a thug he's really not a criminal his crime is crime of drug addiction so im sharing all that to say just the other day i had to tell him everything we think may be a bad thing may just possibly be the good thing we needed and said that God may be saying he's going to save my sons life by any means necessary because fentanyl is killing all those children and again I'm powerless but i see as well as think i can relate to his pain because so many times in college, after the birth of my first child i unknowingly had what they call after birth psychosis and again felt like giving up but i once again because of my mom cause my dad wasn't a church type of man so my mom would always wake give him that we'll be gone all day kiss i learned how to pray the hard part is letting go and allowing God to be God and getting the heck outta his way. My son today showed a wil of"BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY " and as a result of power the power in prayer my son has yet another chance at life because as well educated as i tried preparing all my children i forgot alone the way to take them to church, teach them how to pray but it's never to late and there has to be a balance in life and today by any mean necessary God is yet again teaching us both how the should look and be. I've got 5 adult children and 1 adult G-daughter and no matter their struggles in life they're all perfectly made by God and he did that BY ALL MEANS NECCESARILY.

​@@lorrainehawkins123 very inspirational mum... you're story is breathtaking....

Has no one picked up on the fact that this movie is as full of LIES from beginning to end!??? They even admit so in the opening credits!! But, the enemies of Malcolm and Black people knew you would overlook that important point!! THIS MOVIE IS NOT A HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY!! IT IS PROPAGANDA!!!

Spike Lee didn't do anything with all that extra money he received. He just made a 3hr film instead of a 2hr film, not a better film. I remember so wanting the movie to be great (the promotion and subsequent hype around it were extraordinary) only to end up disappointed for getting exactly what I had predicted to friends. The Autobiography of Malcolm X was also my favorite book so I was equally as concerned as Spike Lee that the story should be handled right and to this end, I wrote a paper expressing my concerns about Spikes Lee's making of the move and called it "SPIKE!... DO THE RIGHT THING" where I stated all my concerns about why I did not feel that Spike Lee was going to do the film justice. This is because I'd seen his other movies and was always left feeling that he may be a decent moviemaker but not such a good storyteller. Casting himself in one of the leading roles as Shorty, only served to distort the true facts and true significance of the role the Shorty character actually played in Malcolm's criminal life, whereas Malcolm's close friend and associate Sammy, who helped school Malcolm to certain points of street hustling and whose inclusion and storyline would have better aluminated the life of Malcolm the street hustler, scarcely gets a mention. Why??... It's simple, Spike Lee was better suited to depict the diminutive character of Shorty the musician, than the taller, suave-looking Sammy the Pimp. I'm pretty certain none of the other potential directorial candidates would have done this just to receive an acting credit in the movie. Spike often lets his Ego get the better of him highlighted by the fact that you only ever see Spike Lee the actor in movies where he is also the director and or producer.

Heart failures. Hmmph

Admirable people. We will never see their like again. May they Rest in Peace.

And then you find that Spike Lee is the political dingbat that Malcolm X warm us about.

The only people who use, or think in terms of, racial communities, are racists. There is no 'white community'. However, if you like, we can make one.

@@FuckFeminists Sounds like something a Christian Who Votes Republican and is Totally Not Racist might say.

Not if that devil ron desantos has anything to do with it!

Powerful, Bill, Tracey, Janet, Prince,Magic, MJ.

I'm kinda shocked Michael Jackson wasn't involved

Facts it is the most egregious crimes on our planet.

Impossible for me

Reparations would ease the pain : a tad bit 👍

Yes. However, they forgiven this racist, and made a celebratory film about him.

Yes, indeed, slavery is/was EGREGIOUS!!💯

Spike Lee didn't do anything with all that extra money he received. He just made a 3hr film instead of a 2hr film, not a better film. I remember so wanting the movie to be great (the promotion and subsequent hype around it were extraordinary) only to end up disappointed for getting exactly what I had predicted to friends. The Autobiography of Malcolm X was also my favorite book so I was equally as concerned as Spike Lee that the story should be handled right and to this end, I wrote a paper expressing my concerns about Spikes Lee's making of the move and called it "SPIKE!... DO THE RIGHT THING" where I stated all my concerns about why I did not feel that Spike Lee was going to do the film justice. This is because I'd seen his other movies and was always left feeling that he may be a decent (and Iconic) moviemaker but not such a good storyteller. Casting himself in one of the leading roles as Shorty, only served to distort the true facts and true significance of the role the Shorty character actually played in Malcolm's criminal life, whereas Malcolm's close friend and associate Sammy, who helped school Malcolm to certain points of street hustling and whose inclusion and storyline would have better aluminated the life of Malcolm the street hustler, scarcely gets a mention. Why??... It's simple, Spike Lee was better suited to depict the diminutive character of Shorty the musician, than the taller, suave-looking Sammy the Pimp. I'm pretty certain none of the other potential directorial candidates would have done this just to receive an acting credit in the movie. Spike often lets his Ego get the better of him highlighted by the fact that you only ever see Spike Lee the actor in movies where he is also the director and or producer. Spike Lee with the credit card made "SHE GOTTA HAVE IT" practically rebirthed the black film industry (after the somewhat misguided and short live black exploitation era of the early 70's), but in my opinion, he made a pig's ear of Alex Haley's amazing Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Don't forget " John Q. Public'. Thar role and subject was timely and relevant to many. The studioes released so it wouldn't be current for the Oscar's nomination. I am sure the Healthcare Industry did it's dirty dealings to silence the notoriety of that great film. Both roles and films were way better than the " Dirty Cop" he r we relieved his Oscar for ( Training Day).

True talk

He shares that in common with most New Yorkers that I have met over the years.

I have to disagree Carmen. Spike Lee didn't do anything with all that extra money he received. He just made a 3hr film instead of a 2hr film, not a better film. I remember so wanting the movie to be great (the promotion and subsequent hype around it were extraordinary) only to end up disappointed for getting exactly what I had predicted to friends. The Autobiography of Malcolm X was also my favorite book so I was equally as concerned as Spike Lee that the story should be handled right and to this end, I wrote a paper expressing my concerns about Spikes Lee's making of the move and called it "SPIKE!... DO THE RIGHT THING" where I stated all my concerns about why I did not feel that Spike Lee was going to do the film justice. This is because I'd seen his other movies and was always left feeling that he may be a decent (and Iconic) moviemaker but not such a good storyteller. Casting himself in one of the leading roles as Shorty, only served to distort the true facts and true significance of the role the Shorty character actually played in Malcolm's criminal life, whereas Malcolm's close friend and associate Sammy, who helped school Malcolm to certain points of street hustling and whose inclusion and storyline would have better aluminated the life of Malcolm the street hustler, scarcely gets a mention. Why??... It's simple, Spike Lee was better suited to depict the diminutive character of Shorty the musician, than the taller, suave-looking Sammy the Pimp. I'm pretty certain none of the other potential directorial candidates would have done this just to receive an acting credit in the movie. Spike often lets his Ego get the better of him highlighted by the fact that you only ever see Spike Lee the actor in movies where he is also the director and or producer. Spike Lee with the credit card made "SHE GOTTA HAVE IT" practically rebirthed the black film industry (after the devious and short live black exploitation era of the early 70's), but in my opinion, he made a pig's ear of Alex Haley's amazing Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Ameen 🤲🏼

I have to disagree Carmen. Spike Lee didn't do anything with all that extra money he received. He just made a 3hr film instead of a 2hr film, not a better film. I remember so wanting the movie to be great (the promotion and subsequent hype around it were extraordinary) only to end up disappointed for getting exactly what I had predicted to friends. The Autobiography of Malcolm X was also my favorite book so I was equally as concerned as Spike Lee that the story should be handled right and to this end, I wrote a paper expressing my concerns about Spikes Lee's making of the move and called it "SPIKE!... DO THE RIGHT THING" where I stated all my concerns about why I did not feel that Spike Lee was going to do the film justice. This is because I'd seen his other movies and was always left feeling that he may be a decent (and Iconic) moviemaker but not such a good storyteller. Casting himself in one of the leading roles as Shorty, only served to distort the true facts and true significance of the role the Shorty character actually played in Malcolm's criminal life, whereas Malcolm's close friend and associate Sammy, who helped school Malcolm to certain points of street hustling and whose inclusion and storyline would have better aluminated the life of Malcolm the street hustler, scarcely gets a mention. Why??... It's simple, Spike Lee was better suited to depict the diminutive character of Shorty the musician, than the taller, suave-looking Sammy the Pimp. I'm pretty certain none of the other potential directorial candidates would have done this just to receive an acting credit in the movie. Spike often lets his Ego get the better of him highlighted by the fact that you only ever see Spike Lee the actor in movies where he is also the director and or producer. Spike Lee with the credit card made "SHE GOTTA HAVE IT" practically rebirthed the black film industry (after the somewhat misguided and short live black exploitation era of the early 70's), but in my opinion, he made a pig's ear of Alex Haley's amazing Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Absolutely. They have taken the phrase and twisted it into a pretzel

And Telepathy Ton!!!🙄🐜🐝