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I found this piece from 2014 a fascinating insight into a by election held fifty years earlier which I was completely unaware of until today. A couple of things that took my eye were Malcolm X talking about "coloured people" (it was a phrase that was used like black people is now for the first twenty years of my life at least and some of my life long friends still use it) and the colour bar in a Labour club.
It's a long article, but well worth a read.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ck-50-years-on
Malcolm X was a civil rights leader was a racist and advocated violence and aggression, which is a tiny part of the reason why black Americans struggle to this day.
Compare the civil rights approach by the incredible Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Rosa Parks, et al.
I often wonder how life for black Americans and also blacks worldwide would have been today had MLK and Medgar Evers had lived to this day.
They gave their lives for civil liberties and it became hi-jacked by those who wanted to take the aggressive approach.
Sadly far too many black people in the USA and UK live a highly aggressive and violent lifestyle.
There are many more reasons than simply that, but Malcolm X was a violent agitator who disliked white people.
I'm still trying to get my head around how you can "reclaim" a word?
If a Chinese guy used the n word, could any black people who heard it sue him for copy rights?? Fook me, this thread gets better by the minute.