Paul says: "I want to bring to life the voices of local people who met
Malcolm X during his visit.
As a result, the debate took place and is now part of
Malcolm X's history: two books on his visit to the Oxford Union; a movie under way, and, later this week, a documentary to launch the Smithsonian Channel in the UK.
Muslim politician and human rights defender
Malcolm X, about whom President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 'we will make his name live on in Ankara," Ankara's municipality said in a statement published by Anadolu news agency on Saturday.
Malcolm X remains an enigma despite or because of what is written on him.
During Trudeau's visit to New York University in April 2016, he boasted that one of the reasons for Canada's success on the international stage in matters such as UN peacekeeping was its lack of "colonial baggage," but he belied that claim virtually in the same breath when he spoke critically of Canada's relationship with Indigenous peoples, referring to "colonial behaviours." To return to
Malcolm X's point, not only is the knife not acknowledged, its partial removal is not progress: under Trudeau it amounts to promoting the false hope that the knife will be recognized so that true reconciliation can begin to take place.
Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali (or Cassius Marcellus Clay Jnr as he was known until 1964) had much in common, but also had many differences.
It was his moral conscience that appealed to the best in our shared humanity: his principled stand against "killing my brothers" in Vietnam, which cost him his heavyweight boxing championship and several years' worth of fights while imprisoned for his conscientious objection to the war (which would have otherwise made him millions of dollars); his fight against racism in America and the world, a fight that made him a representative of the Civil Rights movement in the USA, keeping company with other greats of the era and movement like Angela Davis,
Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Huey Newton and Sam Cooke.
Malcolm X's daughter Attalah Shabazz, Ali's wife Lonnie, daughter Maryum and actor Billy Crystal will also speak at the service.
Among the talkers at "The Greatest's" funeral will be
Malcolm X's daughter Attalah Shabazz, wife Lonnie Ali, eldest daughter Maryum, American actor Billy Crystal, former US president Bill Clinton and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey.
That same year, the boxer joined
Malcolm X's "Nation of Islam" and changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
During a debate at Oxford University,
Malcolm X contended "When you're in a position of power for a long time, you get used to using your yardstick, and you take it for granted that because you've forced your yardstick upon others, that everyone is still using the same yardstick" (qtd.
Malcolm X's Michigan Worldview: An Exemplar for Contemporary Black Studies
Stephen Tuck, The Night
Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest (Berkeley: University of California Press 2014)
James's death--on
Malcolm X's birthday and in the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall--calls to mind the nexus of two worlds of history and scholarship: post-colonial and Marxist studies.
