Omowale Malcolm X’s Associate Organiser and Writer Remembers Him

The Creator Supreme is all-knowing and Afrikan souls of the world have been bestowed upon with superlative knowingness from the Ultimate Divine. Remembrance is an important part of knowing. For the Afrikan it is recollection and rejuvenation of spirit. For the Afrikan it is the bringing forth of the best s/heroes of the Afrikan pantheon. For the Afrikan it is key in the process for restoration of self. For the Afrikan it is honouring the best of the Afrikan self. For Afrikan it reconnects the soul to higher purpose. For the Afrikan it is profound learning. For the Afrikan it is a part of spiritual and cultural living. The observance of Omowale Malcolm X Kukumbuko is a progressive time of remembrance of the life and example of this great hero. This great Heru. This great Ogun. Many recall his magnificent spirit. One such recollection comes from one of the founding members of the OAAU and longstanding 'Malcolmite', A. Peter Bailey:

“People would often ask me, what was it about, that attracted me to brother Malcolm. And I would always tell them that the first time that I heard him speak was the summer of 1962. I had just moved to Harlem and moved in on a Friday and that Saturday my roommate and I decided that we would go and walk down Lennox Avenue and see what’s going on. Cause I’m from Alabama, he’s from North Carolina and we didn’t quite know a whole lot about Harlem…when I got down there brother Malcolm was speaking. He was speaking outside in the streets. We saw the crowd gathering. So we said, ‘What’s going on?’. They said Malcolm X is going to speak. Now at that time I had vaguely heard of him, [only] the bogey-man type of things. So I knew very little about him. So I decided and my roommate decided to see what he had to say and he said something that day that has stayed with me forever. He was the first person I ever heard talk as much about the attacks on our minds as he did about the physical attacks. I had never heard anyone talk about the attacks on the mind. And growing up in Tuskegee Alabama where I did. We’d go down to those movie theatres every Saturday as a child and they were segregated but unlike many places where you had [Afrikan] people sitting in the balcony, they had two completely separate theatres, which I thought was much better. They had the white theatre here and the [Afrikan] theatre here. But we would go every Saturday from about 10am til about 4 o’clock and see about three or four full length movies and all of that. And many times we saw movies dealing with Tarzan. And so for us, I would say from 6 years old to 13 years old to me Afrika was Tarzan and we used to not want to be called Afrikan in any kind of way. And we thought the Afrikans were ignorant because when they spoke their languages amongst themselves we thought that they were ignorant. They would speak their own languages, we thought that they were just mumbling. And we would laugh. We would laugh in the movie theatre. And so when brother Malcolm started talking about the attacks on the mind I remembered those movies and I remembered a lot of things that had happened. And he talked for about 3 hours that day. By the time he finished, I was a Malcolmite and I have been one from that day - from June 1962 until today. Because I had never heard anyone talk about race in this country with the consciousness and the accuracy, the historical context that he did. And especially when he talked about the attacks on the mind. And that has always stayed with me”.

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