Malcolm X Much More Than A Heckler

Billed as a insightful author and columnist, Stanley Crouch has revealed shallowness of thought and abject ignorance in a recent article entitled “Truth about Malcolm X” In the article Mister Crouch sprinkles his evaluation of Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, the Nation of Islam and the movement for Black liberation with half-truths and he misinterprets the dynamics of their legacy. He even goes out of his way to describe Malcolm as “light-skinned, freckle faced and red haired” as though he had not known that Blacks, because of centuries of sexual subjugation and miscegenation, come in a variety of shades and colors. Furthermore, judging from Mister Crouch’s own appearance, it would be better for him not to arrive at conclusions based upon physical traits for there are few people (of any color) who are as physically repulsive as he. His understanding of the Nation of Islam, its methodology and its struggle for freedom, is at best sketchy. [more]