Malcolm X (DVD, 2005, Special Edition)

This movie completely revolutionized my understand of this powerful Civil Rights figure.

My idea of who Malcolm X was and stood for had been shaped by my childhood in the South. I'd heard of him as the opposite of MLK - sowing discord instead of unity - that he was the black version of the KKK, and that he was just as wrong.

When I finally saw the movie a few years ago, I was shocked to find out how wrong I'd been. I didn't even know he broke with the Nation of Islam (NOI). I certainly had never heard him talk about brotherhood with whites:

"In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I will never be guilty of that again - as I know now that some white people are truly sincere... a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket statements about blacks" (The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Alex Haley, p.395).

I also didn't know that his willingness to criticize his former NOI - including their blanket racism - was part of the reason he was killed by the Black Muslims (with government help).

The thing I find so inspiring about him was his willingness to do an about-face regarding everything he'd done and believed in and stood and fought for - decades of blood and sweat and tears! - and all at great personal risk. That he could have such conviction - not to a position, but to the truth - is overwhelmingly rare in any person. Not the lazy certainty of the dogmatic (i.e., "this only is the truth") or the cowardly uncertainty of the agnostic (i.e., "there is no knowing truth"), but the open-eyed conviction of the truth-seeker!

We all invest ourselves - whether in a belief system or an education or a career or a marriage - until we reach our own "point of no return," and then virtually none of us ever go back on that (at least, not without overwhelming pressure from the outside, a very rare event). Most of us would rather live a lie than lose what we have gained up to that point, or what we want for the future. We so often choose our own comfort at the price of our integrity (I know that I have), that we act to preserve what seems valuable instead of what matters.

Malcolm X. Such courage. Such conviction!

See the movie. Own it. It can change your life.

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I had just watched Roots and Roots Second Generation and noticed Alex Haley had went to see Malcolm X and write something for him. This peeked my interest in him. Denzel Washington, who plays Malcolm X did a wonderful job and of cours I love history. Also might I mention the dealer I bought this from was very very good.

I didn't know much about the infamous Malcolm X, and this movie was very informative. Denzel Washington was wonderful in the lead role.

I'de done a lot fo research on Malcom X. This movie portrays his life very well. It shows how he went from Malcolm Little to Hajj Malik Al-Shabazz. 5/5

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