Oh, Mercy, Mercy, Me

2-21-65 is the date that Malcolm X was assassinated in the Audubon Ballroom in New York.

Standard history lessons polarize Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X as being extremely different, but even the most minute perusal of their ideologies prove different - they were far more alike than history would have one believe.




Anytime an individual is able to contextualize and publicly reveal that the true nature of the beast at the core of what troubles America IS America, their character is attacked, before their physical person is attacked. And all we're left with as students of history are soundbites and biased accounts of what occurred.

The point? As participants of a society going nowhere fast, I posit that we all have a primary responsibility to ourselves and our future children to look beyond popular opinion, look beyond what is spoon fed to us. It doesn't take much to go the extra step. The point is, the issues confronted by Malcolm X and Dr. King alike, still exist. This is why we must be ever so vigilant to take the extra step to expose the truth.

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell