>that he chose to leave out some very, very critical elements
>that point to the source of the most likely true source of
>Malcolm's murder and Malcolm's importance (to us) and the
>threat and danger that he represented to the imperialist
>powers in the world.

To Spike Lee's credit I think that he was following an existing script and esp. Haley's autobiography/story.

Also see #44.

>Malcolm was nearly poisoned to death while he was in Egypt and
>he was also denied entry into the French Embassy. Needless to
>say, these incidents were not the works of the NOI.

Somewhere above I mentioned COINTELPRO and this includes other imperialist countries.

>Why leave those 2 facts out, but dedicate 15 - 20 minutes of
>film time to jitterbug dancing?

It's Hollywood. The studio wanted to shut the production down from the very beginning.

>Where's your focus and your
>priorities? Which is more important and which would give the
>viewer a greater understanding on the importance of MX and the
>impact that he truly had/was having/ and would have had on the
>world.

IMO there's no way Lee would have been able to bring such a film to mainstream audiences. I think it fair to say that the film really only covered his early years, his transition and transformation from NOI to true Islam, and the strain he was under up until his death. I agree that Lee only danced around the edges of what Shabazz could have become but it was a strategy that got the movie made and distributed commercially.

>Overall, I thought the film was decent, but Spike dropped the
>ball at some serious intervals, and that can not be denied.

True.

BTW - I wasn't just sobbing because he was going to be killed. I was thinking about what we really lost when he was killed.