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Malcolm X, one of the most influential African American leaders of the 20th Century, was born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19 Shortly after Malcolm was born the family moved to Lansing, Michigan. Earl Little his father joined Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) where he publicly advocated black nationalist beliefs, prompting the local white supremacist Black Legion to set fire to their home. Little was killed by a streetcar in 1931. Authorities ruled it a suicide but the family believed he was killed by white supremacists.

Malcolm dropped out of high school after a teacher ridiculed his aspirations to become a lawyer. Malcolm worked odd jobs in Boston and then moved to Harlem in 1943 where he drifted into a life of “hustling.” He avoided the draft in World War II by declaring his intent to organize black soldiers to attack whites which led to his classification as “mentally disqualified for military service.”

Malcolm was arrested for burglary in Boston in 1946 and received a ten year prison sentence. There he joined the Nation of Islam (NOI). Upon his parole in 1952, Malcolm was called to Chicago, Illinois by NOI leader, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Like other converts, he changed his surname to “X,” symbolizing, he said, the rejection of “slave names” and his inability to claim his ancestral African name.

Recognizing his promise as a speaker and organizer for the Nation of Islam, Muhammad sent Malcolm to Boston and then in 1954 to Temple Number Seven in Harlem. Although New York’s one million blacks comprised the largest African American urban population in the United States, Malcolm noted that “there weren’t enough Muslims to fill a city bus. “Fishing” in Christian storefront churches and at competing black nationalist meetings, Malcolm built up the membership of Temple Seven. He also met his future wife, Sister Betty X, a nursing student who joined the temple in 1956.

Malcolm X quickly became a national public figure in July 1959 when CBS aired Mike Wallace’s expose on the NOI, “The Hate That Hate Produced.” This documentary revealed the views of the NOI, of which Malcolm was the principal spokesperson and showed those views to be in sharp contrast to those of most well-known African American leaders of the time.

Soon, however, Malcolm was increasingly frustrated by the NOI’s bureaucratic structure and refusal to participate in the Civil Rights Movement. His November 1963 speech in Detroit, “Message to the Grass Roots,” a bold attack on racism and a call for black unity, foreshadowed the split with his spiritual mentor, Elijah Muhammad. However, Malcolm on December 1 was suspended from the NOI for his comments in responce to JFK Death, “chickens coming home to roost” which to Muslims meant that Allah was punishing white America for crimes against black people.

Malcolm used the suspension to announce on March 8, 1964, his break with the NOI and his creation of the Muslim Mosque, Inc. Three months later he formed a strictly political group, called the Organization of Afro American Unity (OAAU) which was roughly patterned after the Organization of African Unity (OAU).

His dramatic political transformation was revealed when he spoke to the Militant Labor Forum of the Socialist Worker’s Party. By April 1964, while speaking at a CORE rally in Cleveland, Ohio, Malcolm gave his famous “The Ballot or the Bullet” speech in which he described black Americans as “victims of democracy.”

Malcolm traveled to Africa and the Middle East in late Spring 1964 and was received like a visiting head of state in many countries including Egypt, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, and Ghana. While there, Malcolm made his hajj to Mecca, Saudi Arabia and added El-Hajj to his official NOI name Malik El-Shabazz.

The transformed Malcolm reiterated these views when he addressed an OAAU rally in New York, declaring for a pan-African struggle “by any means necessary.” Malcolm spent six months in Africa in 1964 in an unsuccessful attempt to get international support for a United Nations investigation of human rights violations of Afro Americans in the United States. Upon his return to New York, his home was firebombed. Events continued to spiral downward and on February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan.

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[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

Me, two years ago: doggirl-smug I'm gonna get used to my alarm being 3 hours before I have to go to work... nice lazy mornings to collect myself doggirl-grin

Me, now: doggirl-tears Now I'm doing chores all morning catgirl-flop

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Im watching a video about the last GTA6 trailer and there's an insane amount of details. Like the liquid in beer bottles moves individually, Lucia can customize her nails, the weights on a barbell shake when they're lifted. And I just can't help but think... Why. What's the fucking point. It's such a waste of time and resources. The diminishing returns on graphics are becoming very apparent because I really haven't been any more impressed by graphics in this generation that the last. RDR2 looked great, but when you looked at little things like grass up close it wasn't hyper realistic. And I didn't care. So why does anyone care about looking at blades of grass? Why is this what the biggest companies want to focus on?

I've been replaying Deltarune and am consistently impressed with how much I like the visual style, and the game is less than a GB of storage. GTA6 will probably be 120GB at least. I don't want it. I don't care about the graphics. Stop doing this

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[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

I'm tired of getting random anticommunist/antisoviet drive bys in my entertainment. I'm just trying to listen to a silly sci-fi lore podcast and suddenly they're talking earnestly about "the Soviets only had one gun for every two guys" like its historical fact!

[–] CDommunist@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago
[–] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

I fucking hate interviewing, I don’t want the job or want to learn the stupid little parlour tricks needed to get it, but I must because our society is fucking stupid

[–] JD_Vyvanse@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

gf met the comrades at a film screening tonight & it was extremely sweet and the vibes were immaculate :') everyone got along and honestly it felt really beautiful in a transcending loneliness and atomization kind of way :')

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[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Damn dude I wish I had time to learn like a dozen languages. I've been learning Japanese but an SF6 player I like is Korean and it's like... man... I wanna learn that too, and Mandarin, and Russian, and I took French in high school so like, I feel compelled to keep going with that because I have kind of a head start.

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[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

Malcom Eggs Mega

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Final project for my database management class is, and this is not hyperbole: talk to chat gpt until it fully designs a relational database for me. I'm meant to have it come up with all the entities and relationships, use image generation to create a diagram, and have it spit out all the SQL code. I guess the only thing I'm doing myself is making sure that it doesn't hallucinate by copy+pasting the code into postgresql myself and debugging it as necessary.

It's like my teacher wants us all to understand that there will be no career prospects doing this, lmao.

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That feeling when you wrote a really good paper but your instructor is an idiot and marked you down for things that aren't even mentioned in the instructions or rubric.

I still passed, but damn it that was an 80% paper, not a 65%

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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Started bicycling again for the first time in like 10 years. Really helps highlight how out of shape I am. I can get to the library much more quickly now, but I'm learning about muscles in my legs I completely forgot existed. I guess I need to break my ass in a little bit too, because the saddle's making my butt sore (this could be aided with a different saddle, but I think a significant part of the problem is my butt).

The bike I got is a bit of a stinker. It's a pretty light-weight hybrid in generally good condition, but the previous owner didn't do a great job assembling it. Everything was loose. On my inaugural ride, the saddle dumped backward on me and one of the pedals nearly broke off. I gave it a proper once-over after walking it back home, but I probably need a new crank arm to fix the pedal issue more permanently. It might just be that I'm heavy, but a human-load bearing part shouldn't be mounted with aluminum threads IMHO.

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Rereading Debt: The First 5000 Years. Surprised to see this - honestly I wouldn't have pegged graeber as a Michael Hudson fan

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Doesn't really surprise me, actually. Michael Hudson had a really insightful observation about the role of debt and debt cancellation in ancient societies, how the centralization of debt was important so that civil and religious authorities could cancel debt when it became insolvent, etc etc in this interview.

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[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Someone asked about "why did capitalism develop in Europe instead of China" last week, and I have a little bit more of a partial answer.

Europe had a frontier (the Americas) where nascent capitalists could rest, recuperate, and build wealth and power away from the prying eyes of the traditional aristocracy. If you compare any equivalent frontiers for China or India, the frontier was not as friendly (or didn't exist; there were simply other empires there). So our hypothetical Chinese 15th century capitalist cannot accrue power outside of the traditional powers in China.

You can even sorta see this today, in places like Israel where unethical practices (even beyond killing Palestinians) can be tested and tried out. Even outside of Israel, the "capitalist" innovations of greater exploitation happen in countries that do not have established power structures that can or would stand up to capitalists. Being able to flit between countries in order to avoid scrutiny is one of capitalists greater strengths as, say, a labour movement in the UK gets powerful enough to challenge hegemony (to say nothing of labour aristocracy). This is especially compared to previous aristocratic power structures, which tend to be local and disempowered if they flee to another country.

Like I said, this is only a partial explanation, but one that ties colonialism and capitalism together and explains why it happened in Europe rather than China (though it does raise the question of why hypothetical capitalists in China didn't do the same colonialism in the Americas or SEA, perhaps those hypothetical capitalists couldn't exist for other reasons).

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think a better explanation is that Europe was made up of medium-sized states that were in constant competition with each other, while having a ruling class that struggled with debt. This meant that they had to seek out new frontiers to expand their capital, and were forced to adopt disruptive reforms that they would otherwise not be inclined towards. Eventually, every European state was incentivized to adopt the political economy that had been created by the Netherlands and Britain.

The capitalist mode of production existed in China, India, and the Ottoman Empire, but these were large, land-based Empires whose ruling classes were incentivized not to disrupt their political economies. The European states were forced into the disruption of capitalism through competition with each other.

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[–] Sleve_McDichael@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

In a work meeting where the VP is leading a company-wide discussion remotely, but he’s incredibly sick with a cold. Making tons of disgusting sniffing and swallowing sounds. I can’t listen to this any more, I’m leaving

I'm going away for three days without internet. Keep the mega warm for my return o7

[–] ComradeSpahija@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Eagerly waiting for the inevitable Slammer post on Genocide Joe's cancer diagnosis.

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[–] Carl@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago
[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It would suck to try to buy fingernail clippers in a world where people don't lose things

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[–] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Vice President Joseph R. Biden said Tuesday that he would “develop prostate cancer or something” if he had a fundamental disagreement with President Obama and was forced to resign from his post.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/20/biden-jokes-about-faking-prostate-cancer-get-out-o/

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[–] iArtemis@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] anaesidemus@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

"the Bullet or the Ballot" as well, elite posting, reminds me of Mao

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

Someone who Google reviewed the place I work at was seated close to the kitchen and mentioned that I'm hilarious in the review.

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

My Red Sails "to be read/reread" list is 169 articles long jesus-christ

I know the quote isnt supposed to be taken literally but i cant stop imagining malcom x getting punched or something and he just whips out the fat man from fallout and just vaporizes the motherfucker who did it

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

My parents went through a phrase where they’d assume that if they didn’t know an English word it didn’t exist. They’d say stuff like “English is so limited, you can’t even describe something as sour or bitter”

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[–] moonlake@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

Starting every day by googling "is joe biden dead yet"

[–] iie@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm really curious how ChatGPT would react if I just hurled vicious abuse at it and belittled it, but I don't have the heart to do it.

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Broke up a fight between a couple cats in my neighborhood. Heard some kitty yelps from down the road and walked over and there were two cats squaring off. I told em to fight the real enemy and if they're fighting over this territory it's mine now and neither can have it. Didn't pee on the sidewalk to prove it tho

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[–] rhubarb@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

I bet Biden really regrets not getting around to curing cancer like he promised

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

Been renting a room from princeling manchild for over a year now. I don't believe he's ever sprayed for bugs. Last night a cockroach jumped into my lap while I was at my desk. bocchi-glitch

I decided to sleep in sweatpants and socks

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[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

There's so much plant cum in the air that the edges of the park pathway are covered in white

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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

America is in dire need of some Maoism

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I skipped leg day last because I thought I was on my period (it was actually the weird thing that isn't my period that keeps happening) and was kinda worried that id be struggling this week but I went up in weights for a couple things comfy-cool

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago
[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

I'll give AI art people this, I'd they use it to make new digimon that's cannon

[–] miz@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

when Juan Guaidó dies, I'm imagining Venezuela giving him a sarcastic state funeral where everyone does air quotes when they refer to him as president. the band plays a dirge on kazoos

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