The Impact of Omowale Malcolm X as shared by his Nephew, Organiser and Author

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 the life and example of this great hero. This great Heru. This great Ogun. Omowale Malcolm X’s nephew and son of Queen Ella Collins, Rodnell Collins of the OAAU and author articulates the following:

“True legacy that he left was one of, I would say, especially addressing young people today, was one of courage. A tremendous amount of courage in the [fight] and willing to lose his life for fighting for our people. He had an opportunity to run away and live in comfort, running from those that were trying to assassinate him. And there were more different people and groups trying to assassinate Malcolm than just what was generally believed in the public, the Black muslims or [only this] government, there were foreign interests as well that were very much interested as well as military intelligence around the world – white military intelligence. Because he was a threat…because he spoke to the truth. But he was willing to lose his life, he said it himself, if he could have (not quoting him exactly) have made any kind of impact on changing the hellish conditions that our people live here in America…

All people of [Afrikan] ancestry, [Afrikan] culture are suffering all over the world and he’s the only one to this date who so clearly addressed the problems of our people and so truly here and around the world. And what drew me to love my uncle so much was not just because he was my uncle, because I have several uncles, but as a young man, a child and young man, he addressed the aspirations and ideas that I felt. I remember as a child when I first heard about Emmet Till being murdered because he whistled at a white woman. I mean, I have experienced myself, in the so-called cradle of liberty here in Massachusetts the abuse, not just by police but by European Americans just for existing and being around. That history needs to be studied, the south wasn’t the problem, the mason-dixie south. Malcolm said himself, south is south of the Canadian border were where our problems exist so don’t put it on the whites in the south. It’s a systematic problem that is in their culture. And he articulated that so well…

We have always been in the forefront, the bravest, the best of any group of people on this planet since time immortal. We are the first people and we’re the last. You cannot destroy us – only the Creator. You cannot destroy Malcolm…

One of [these] executives told me…(these are European Americans), ‘You want to do a book, who is he? Is he your uncle, Malcolm X?’. I said, ‘Yes’. He said, ‘Well, what do you want to do? Do you want to make money? Or do you want to write a book?’. Well, I want to write a book but I also want to make money, duh’. He said, ‘No, what do want to do?’. So, I didn’t get it for about three or four times. And I said, ‘Well, I want to make money and I want to do a book’. ‘You can’t do both’, I said,’Why?’. He says, ‘That’s not the way it works’. ‘What do you mean?’. He says, ‘Rodnell, If you want to make money, what do you have? What can we scintillate it with?’. I said, ‘Huh?’. He said, ’What can you tell me, you got any dirt?’…The man said listen, ‘This is the way it works, if you want make money you’ve got to scintillate it a little bit’. ‘You mean you want me to lie?’. He says, ‘I’m not telling you what to do’. He says, ‘Do you want to make money?’. I said, ‘Yes’.  He says, ‘Ok’. He says,’ Well, what you got?’. And I said, ‘Well, I want to tell my uncle’s story’. And he went on, ‘Well, that won’t work, you’ve got to do one or the other’. So, I opted to tell the story…I learnt from that lesson, this is the way it works. I learnt from the people in publishing, in Hollywood, in wall street, how these white folks function. This is the ‘industry’…

Look at what [Malcolm] was about…He was about the problem of our people and how to solve it…He was a part of an organisation that were building characters, women and men…

We are a spiritual people of our faith in what we believe in. In our Afrikan culture and language and belief systems. Our ancestor worship. Our appreciating, you know, our ancients. This is what we’re about”.

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