Omowale Malcolm X’s Teacher Friend 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 the grand Afrikan warrior historian, John Henrik Clarke:

“There was a voice loud and clear, analytical. We were fighting to keep from hearing that voice. It was the voice of big ‘bad’ Malcolm X. Who had both the national and the international message. I met him first, in 1958. I knew him from that period until his death and sometimes saw him on a daily basis. I would furnish information on history and background information. I never told Malcolm X what to do and I don’t remember anybody else who told him what to do either. I first met Malcolm at the Worlds Trade Show building. He looked me up and down and he says, ‘I bet you’re a swine eater’. I’ll admit that I had payed some joyful visits to pork chops and other parts of the pig. And I said that, ‘You know Malcolm, if it wasn’t for the pig, you and I wouldn’t be here arguing about the pig. ‘Cause some of us would be gone. We would have starved to death’…

The Arabs and certain powerful groups within Islam really wanted Malcolm on their side. There was a serious attempt to persuade Malcolm to turn…and establish a second…group based on what they considered to be orthodox Islam. They offered him three and a half million. He turned it down and we were walking down the street toward his car. This man had turned down three and half million dollars. He wacked me on the shoulder and said, ‘Swine eater, let me buy you a cup of coffee’…

In the final analysis he was as good a pan-Afrikanist as any of the rest.

Malcolm X had laid down a threat to the colonial powers of the world.

I do not think Malcolm X’s murder was a local American thing. I think it was a larger thing than that.

We were friends from the day we met until his death. When I got the word of his death I was in Connecticut. I’d got up to make a speech in Connecticut and I was at a Jewish home. Someone announced that he’d died and then someone added dismissing the whole thing that, ‘Afterall he was anti-semetic’. I know the man well enough to know he really didn’t hate anybody, he hated certain things people did. He wasn’t a hater at all and they spoke as though they had the right to tell us who should and should not be our hero.  I went into their bathroom and it was after dinner and just cried like a child for fifteen minutes. I came out partly composed and made the speech that night I was asked to make. Then came on home and tried to deal with the reality of the situation. Because to me Malcolm X was not gone and he’s still not gone in my imagination. The whole year after his death, I always got the feeling that we were having our usual conversation. I would always end it, ‘What can I do?’. And finally, I got the feeling that he had said, ‘Do your best work’. I was a good teacher before that. I was a better teacher and a better human being after that. Because I knew that being a good classroom teacher was my best work”.

In the approach to Omowale Malcolm X Kukumbuko, learning can become a progressive and purposeful mission. Time taken to learn can go a long way. Learn of Afrikan progressive mission and live Afrikan progressive mission is the becoming of vital Afrikan acumen.

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