Do You Know Malcolm

Giving Honor Where the Highest Honor is Due!

*Bliss Says: Today I thought about Malcolm. How he want to walk like Malcolm and talk like Malcolm and how he want to think like Malcolm. He told me that he wish he could move like Malcolm, swing like Malcolm...Make his voice be heard just like Malcolm. Then he say, do you know Malcolm?

Do you really know Malcolm? El Haj Malik El-Shabazz

Do you really know Malcolm? El Haj Malik El-Shabazz

Everywhere you go you see Malcolm on display

In Atlanta or Dallas, from New York to L.A.

His photos on a T-shirt, and you'll always see an "X"

But unless you know his message it's just a pretext

Do you really know Malcolm with his name on your clothes

Or is it just a fashion thing that comes and goes

Do you really know Malcolm or is his name just a word?

**Song written by Phil Morrison**

Malcolm says:

"The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God." -- Speech, Dec. 1, 1963, New York City.

"ItÂ’s just like when youÂ’ve got some coffee thatÂ’s too black, which means itÂ’s too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you wonÂ’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep." -- "Message to the Grass Roots," speech, Nov. 1963, Detroit (published in Malcolm X Speaks, ch. 1, 1965).

"If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country." -- Speech, Nov. 1963, New York City.

"I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color."

"I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action."

**Bliss Says - There is Malcolm. Walking and talking and swinging, like he do. Smile Malcolm, for me, Would ya? One day he will be able to walk like Malcolm and talk like Malcolm and ...make his-self be heard just like Malcolm did.

Much respect...keepers of the flame.

Grace and Peace

Bliss