New York: Malcolm X, the most revolutionary American Black leader who embraced Islam and called it a religion of the Balcks, is back alive after three decades of his assassination by a white nazi in New York.
A powerful 3 1/2 hour-film begins against a back- drop of a burning American flag, with the harsh condemnation of the white man as the “greatest murderer on Earth.” The very last words, uttered by Malcolm X “By any means necessary”.
This extra-ordinary movie opened through out the US this week. The message of the film detailed in an autobiography written (with Alex Haley) just before Malcolm’s 1965 assassination, is that Blacks throughout the world have to claim justice, not merely lobby the power class for piecemeal con- cessions; that the suppression of Blacks predates American slavery, predates most of recorded history, and that it will take a revolution of thought to bring about true equality.
