/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16278058]

What did Malcolm X read to be so articulate?

[Anonymous No.16278077]

Probably books

[Anonymous No.16278177]

>>16278077
/thread

When did /lit/ get so smart?

[Anonymous No.16278185]

>>16278177
When i started to frequent the board. I accept thank you donations.

[Anonymous No.16278186]

>>16278058

The Bible and the Koran. But actually.

[Anonymous No.16278190]

wasn't it just history? if you aren't a retarded revisionist, then you can come to significant conclusions simply by reading history, because at the core of it it explains the mindset/reason of why people do things. malcolm was quite well-read in terms of US politics and history.
segregation for eg was one of his unabashed conclusions. not out of racism, but because he understands that people get along with their own kind.
malcolm just understood that whites don't want to get along with blacks, which was fine, but then it's also fair to ask for states they could be segregated in, because they were no longer african either (culturally speaking). forcing diversity is unironically toxic because it leads to retarded shit like george floyd (where a legal incidents get misconstrued as racial incidents) and also 'what's the correlation between %13 and %50?' (where very obvious racial incidents get misconstrued as sociopolitical incidents).

[Anonymous No.16278378]

>>16278058
SIEGE by James Mason.

[Anonymous No.16278597]

>>16278058
his writing is fucking awful which isn't surprising given that he only learned to read as an adult. its like reading something by a grade schooler who's been told he's smart a few too many times.

[Anonymous No.16278615]

>>16278058
He was a male prostitute, so he doubtless learned a lot from the men he serviced.

[Anonymous No.16278638]

>>16278058
Marx

[Anonymous No.16279546]

Alex haley did all the writing. He had a white man help him write his book.

Douglass is the only good black writer.

[Anonymous No.16279792]

>>16279546
DuBois is a great scholar, historian, essayist, memoirist, etc.

[Anonymous No.16279810]

>>16278190
>and also 'what's the correlation between %13 and %50?' (where very obvious racial incidents get misconstrued as sociopolitical incidents
What do you mean by this?

[Anonymous No.16279815]

>>16279810
(Familiar with the stat, not sure what you mean in the parenthesis though).

[Anonymous No.16279841]

Nietzsche, Kant, Schopenhauer, various books on genetics, history books on black people in America, Quran and various Nation of Islam shit.

[Anonymous No.16280058]

>>16278190
>the absolute state of this board
for one thing, malcolm left his ideas of segregation after becoming muslim, because he viewed islam as a solution to racism - it is a religion that places emphasis on the equality of people. when he started to pray, and performed hajj, and saw rows of people of all backgrounds praying and eating and being together, he unironically accepted diversity and left segregation.
for another thing, the george floyd case was just an extremely graphic example of a problem millions of americans recognize and want to see changed. "legal incidents misconstrued as racial incidents", lol

[Anonymous No.16280093]

>>16280058
>it is a religion that places emphasis on the equality of p̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶ muslims

[Anonymous No.16280119]

>>16280058
>a problem millions of americans recognize and want to see changed
375,000,000 interactions a year. Unarmed black men killed by cops: 9. Propaganda played you anon, but more importantly, you played yourself.

[Anonymous No.16280134]

>>16280093
Muslims will obviously prefer the company of our own, and we do not marry non-Muslims, but that doesn't mean they aren't seen as equal in their rights and honor. The Shariah treats a Muslim and a non-Muslim the same, and might even be said to give preference to non-Muslims because they get to live under their own religious rulings - they can buy, sell, and drink alcohol, and other things that are illegal for Muslims. You can't make the claim that the Shariah doesn't give equal rights to non-Muslims.

[Anonymous No.16280171]

>>16280119
source?

[Anonymous No.16280178]

>>16280134
>implying religious people do what their holy books tell them to do
>implying the base mob mentality wouldn't take over enlightened teachings

[Anonymous No.16280193]

>>16280178
Well, true enough, but the question was about the religion itself, and not the practitioners. I'll be the first to agree that Muslims rarely live up to the teachings, and it seems to be getting worse by the year.

[Anonymous No.16280217]

why does everyone treat malcom x like a leftist intellectual when most of his life was supporting racial segregation, criticizing jews, and collaborating with actual white supremacists just like marcus garvey

[Anonymous No.16280234]

>>16280217
i'm pretty sure leftists are allowed to be racist, you're thinking of liberals

[Anonymous No.16280547]

[Anonymous No.16280617]

>>16278058
there's a part in his autobiography where he talks about all the books he read, he literally started from the ground up and read anything he could get his hands on
>>16280547
this isnt the full version

[Anonymous No.16280637]

>>16280171
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpp15.pdf
As for 9, fuck you can track that by following national news. Shit's a statistical blip. If you need to be spoon fed:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883
>The police fatally shot nine unarmed blacks and 19 unarmed whites in 2019, according to a Washington Post database

Also keep in mind unarmed != non-dangerous.

More fun stats:
>Of non-homicide black/white crimes, 85% black perp
>Blacks kill 2 times as many whites as whites kill blacks
93% of black homicide committed by other blacks
>Blacks kill more blacks in a year than the KKK did in its entire history
>Harvard study (conducted by a black man) showed cops more reluctant to use deadly force against blacks

[Anonymous No.16281217]

>>16280093
Yes, and there is nothing wrong with this.

[Anonymous No.16281225]

>>16280178
Read history. Western secularist liberals are a plague on humanity.

[Anonymous No.16281300]

>>16280637
>This is what BLM is protesting
No, it isn't.

[Anonymous No.16281817]

>>16278058
>thinking books make you articulate
This is a low IQ cope. Trying being born intelligent, OP.

[Anonymous No.16282161]

>>16279546
>alex haley
>white
you dumb as fuck

[Anonymous No.16282173]

>>16280058
>example of a problem millions of americans recognize and want to see changed
you know when people are fat and happy you can make them believe basically anything, right?

[Anonymous No.16282174]

>>16280058
>malcolm left his ideas of segregation

Cringe.

[Anonymous No.16282239]

he reported that, when incarcerated, he realized he had no idea how to compose a letter to Elijah Muhammad (much less speak properly.) so not only did he start reading everything he could get his hands on, but he copied the entire dictionary by hand.

[Anonymous No.16283113]

>>16279815
violent crime committed by blacks is an inherently racial issue, but because everyone is uncomfortable with this fact, they don't like to admit it, so they instead cop-out by making it appear to be something else (i.e. 'oh it's actually a social issue because of systematic white racism' or 'oh it's actually a political issue because inherent systematic racism ensures blacks stay poor and uneducated').
refusing to acknowledge the truth because it makes you uncomfortable ensures you can never reach a solution. people like malcolm were well aware of this.
>>16280058
retard cope. it's obvious you havent read a single book of his and instead just watched some youtubne clips. the only thing that changed for malcolm i nterms of islam was leaving the Nation of Islam jabornies after Hajj. afterwards he became less openly racist to whites but at no point did he stop being 'radical (he constantly called out blacks for being retards and playing the victim card as much as he criticized the inherent social rejection whites had for blacks).

[Anonymous No.16283385]

>>16280217
Criticizing jews IS fighting racism.

[Anonymous No.16283495]

>>16283113
To be clear, by saying “inherently” you mean that it’s engraved in the DNA of blacks to be violent? How do you back this? any empirical evidence that suggests this and not that it’s structural?

[Anonymous No.16283506]

>>16278058
He was a light-skinned black so he had white blood, which explains it. Same goes for Obama.

[Anonymous No.16283507]

>>16280217
I don't think anyone says he's a leftist, it's just that in America you're allowed to be rp on the jq if you're black

[Anonymous No.16283513]

>>16283507
What about Asians or Hispanics? Are they allowed, too?

[Anonymous No.16283520]

>>16279546
>implying Malcolm X was black

[Anonymous No.16283688]

>>16283495
>DNA
no, by inherently i mean the stats are inseparable from the fact that it's perpetrators are black. and in trying to figure out 'why?' i wouldn't ever give a DNA based answer. there's a sociopolitical answer for sure.

[Anonymous No.16283764]

I did a brief scan of this thread and surprised I didn't see the legitimate answer.
He read a lot when he was in prison. As some anons have said, he was embarrassed to write a letter to Elijah Muhammad, and as a result of this and his contact with him he began to read.
He was moved to an experimental prison that was focused on reform (irrc this was the prison that inspired Shutter Island) that had a really good library. He started by reading a dictionary cover to cover, then read widely from the extensive prison collection. According to the autobiography, he started wearing glasses because he strained his eyesight by reading by moonlight after lights out.
He's one of my favorite American historical figures because he was a largely self-disciplined autodidact and wasn't afraid to change his mind if he felt he wasn't following the truth.

[Anonymous No.16283779]

>>16279546
>Alex haley
>white

[Anonymous No.16283804]

>>16278190
This is actually the only peaceful solution for the American racial problem, yet no one is talking about it.

[Anonymous No.16283810]

>>16278190
He became an intergretionalist after his hajj.

[Anonymous No.16283812]

American Blacks culturally are inclined to wordplay and verbal erudition

[Anonymous No.16283815]

>>16281817
They do. That and being around people who are articulate. Ever wondered why kids from aristocratic families speak eloquently with a natural ease? Hint : it's not because they're naturally smarter.

[Anonymous No.16283819]

>>16278185
Thanks you.