>>It was just funny to see someone callin that flick a >>celebration. > >Uh. So if you ended a flick with little kids in South Africa >getting up and saying "I am Malcolm X" and made sure to >include Ossie Davis' masterful eulogy, you wouldn't see it as >celebratory? > >I should really not engage with people when they exchange >intelligence for snipishness.
yeah, maybe you should not.
>>btw, your apotheosis of mr x was funny, too. > >If you think it's "funny" to call Malcolm X one of our most >important lives and stories, you must know very few and very >little about black people. Which suggests to me that you >should avoid making statements on what is or is not an >apotheosis in relation to anything black.
>We're talking basic historical knowledge here, sir. You know, >as in, you can hate Malcolm X but know his cultural importance >as a symbol, all that kind of low-level awareness of social >history, etc.?
it's sad that a student of philosophy isn't capable of reading between the lines. in turning mr x into a symbol and callin him one of "our" greatest lives you are deprivin him of his humaneness.