Rockwell and Malcolm X got along?

[Y2A]

The founder of the ANP and Malcolm X got along? WTH! I never knew this.

From Wikipedia:

"One telling event in his career was his meeting with Malcolm X, a leader of the black supremacist Nation of Islam movement. The two - one a neo-Nazi and the other a black separatist - apparently got along well and agreed that blacks and whites simply did not belong together. Rockwell made a point of contributing $20 to Nation of Islam."

[elijahcraig]

I've read that Malcolm later regretted making an alliance with Rockwell on the issue of separatism.

[Hampton]

A week before his assassination Malcolm X publicly revealed that the leaders of the Black Muslims had been colluding with the Ku Klux Klan and Rockwell, the leader of the US Nazi Party. They had looked to giving Elijah Muhammed financial aid. In return he was to continue churning out the separatist message and at the same time keep the heat off racist organizations. This graphically shows how Black Nationalism could play into the hands of the racists. In the course of struggle Malcolm X was forced to question whether Black Nationalism was the correct philosophy. He did not break with the idea of blacks organizing separately but he recognized using the term Black Nationalist was setting him apart from "true revolutionaries dedicated to overturning the system of exploitation that exists on this earth." he said, "Can we sum up the solution to the problems confronting our people as Black Nationalism? If you notice, I haven't been using that expression for several months now."

Link. (http://www.socialistalternative.org/literature/malcolmx/ch4.html)

also this:


The NOI's key go-between with the white supremacists was John X Ali, identified by authors Louis Lomax and Karl Evanzz as the FBI's top informant within the organization. Soon after John X. Ali had been named the NOI's national secretary in early 1960, Texas millionaire H.L. Hunt began to send funds to the NOI. According to Evanzz, John X. Ali suggested that the Nation establish a dialogue with the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party, which might lead to the purchase of land in the deep south. According to FBI records, on January 28, 1961, a meeting between Ku Klux Klan representatives and the Nation, including Malcolm X, was held in Atlanta.

Also in 1961 at a NOI rally in Washington, DC, American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell sat in the front row with a few dozen storm troopers. When it came time for the collection, Rockwell cried out: "George Lincoln Rockwell gives $20." So much applause followed that Malcolm X remarked, "George Lincoln Rockwell, you got the biggest hand you ever got, didn't you?" In 1962, at the NOI's annual Savior's Day in Chicago, Rockwell was a featured speaker. He stated, "I believe Elijah Muhammad is the Adolph Hitler of the black man," and ended his speech by pumping his arm and shouting "Heil Hitler." (Chicago Free Weekly Reader, April, 11, 1986)

Link (http://www.plp.org/TheCommunist1/noi.html)



Telegram to George Lincoln Rockwell (Leader of the American Nazi Party)
Malcolm X

1965

This is to warn you that I am no longer held in check from fighting white supremacists by Elijah Muhammad's separatist Black Muslim movement, and that if your present racist agitation against our people there in Alabama causes physical harm to Reverend King or any other black Americans who are only attempting to enjoy their rights as free human beings, that you and your Ku Klux Klan friends will be met with maximum physical retaliation from those of us who are not hand-cuffed by the disarming philosophy of nonviolence, and who believe in asserting our right of self-defense -- by any means necessary.

Link (http://www.malcolm-x.org/docs/tel_rock.htm)

It's not so much Malcolm as it was Elijah Muhammad if you ask me.

[Vinny Rafarino]

Why do people still post nonsense from Wikipedia? You cats do realise that anyone and everyone can create definitions there correct?

What's even more comical is that people actually use that useless site to provide evidence to support their (sometimes outrageous) claims.

I suggest you never again bother to visit that site Y2A, unless of course you prefer to continue down your normal trend of swallowing nonsense.

[Misodoctakleidist]

Malcolm X certainly changed his opinion on segregation as the solution after his visit to Mecca.

[synthesis]

Originally posted by COMRADE [email protected] 26 2004, 12:27 PM
Why do people still post nonsense from Wikipedia? You cats do realise that anyone and everyone can create definitions there correct?

What's even more comical is that people actually use that useless site to provide evidence to support their (sometimes outrageous) claims.

I suggest you never again bother to visit that site Y2A, unless of course you prefer to continue down your normal trend of swallowing nonsense.
Some of it is BS, it can often be a good source for unbiased information, and it's usually fairly easy to spot the nonsense.

The thing about it is, if something is wrong, it gets changed. If it's outrageously wrong, then the person who made it is banned from making any further edits.

[Socialsmo o Muerte]

It isn't suprising though.

I wouldn't suggest that the particular stuff that Y2A got from Wikipedia is false.

Malcolm often said whites and blacks should be seperate and fully advocated that untill his change of philosophy upon taking the Hajj.

I doubt he was as closely linked as you seem to be suggesting, but their ideas were the same.

But as someone has rightly pointed out, Malcolm became El Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz and no longer had these beliefs. This briefly existing Malcolm is the one we should remember for his philosophy.