Malcolm's Letter from Mecca was Poppycock
Arab Muslim Racism is as pervasive as White Christian racism. Would Malcolm X take us from the forest to the jungle. His letter from Mecca was probably designed to distance African Americans from NOI Islam, to seperate those willing to follow Malcolm away from Elijah. And yet had not Malcolm experienced the socalled brotherhood of Islam in New York Sunni meetings?
Had he not attended prayer with United Nations' Muslims? As sharp as he was, are we to believe he truly experienced univeral brotherhood in Mecca? Even the blue eyed Europeans revealed their Islamic consciousness Was this new to Malcolm? Had not Elijah taught us some devils would remain if they submitted to Islam?
But surely Malcolm knew before he journeyed to Mecca that just as eleven o'clock Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in Christianity, especially in racist America, that one o'clock Friday is the most segregated hour in Islam? Not only are women forced to pray seperate from men, but most masjids are dominated by ethnic groups, whether African, Arab, Pakistani, et al.
And most importantly, North American Africans are paternilized and patronized like little children who need Arab scholars to give us authentic Islamic theology, while we have an Islamic tradition revealed in African history and especially socalled slave narratives and even more ancient documents detailing our pre-Columbian presence in the Americans, and yes, as Muslims, especially during the Ghana, Mali and Songhay empires during the Middle Ages while white savagery reigned in the European Dark Ages. We don't need Arabs to teach us nothing but to get out of our mix and recovery from their own addiction to White Supremacy ideas of domination and oppression of African people and their own people. Do not push your racist Islam on North American Africans. We've had enough dealing with white racist Christianity to now trade racist Arab Islam as our salvation. We have our own saints and saviors, from Nat Turner, David Walker, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Book T., Fred Douglas, Garvey, DuBois, Noble Drew Ali, Master Fard, Elijah and Malcolm.
As per Malcolm's letter, a dear friend of mine made his hajj to Mecca with the Last Poets. He was forced to ride in the back of the bus from Amman, Jordan to Mecca, Saudi Arabia by white racist Turkish Muslims. Yes, contrary to Malcolm's letter, my friend rode in the back of the bus, not in Mississippi but Saudi Arabia, that same theologically backward, narrow minded ancient kingdom that is the fountainhead of ignorant, cave man derived notions of Islamic theology that should and will be thrown into the dustbin of history when the people rise up to overthrow Neo-colonialist regimes in the Middle East and the world. The same must be done in America with the archaic Christian fundamentalist theology that is ignorant and perpetuates the myth of white supremacy.
--Marvin X, Prime Minister of Poetry, First Poet's Church of the Latter Day Egyptian Revisionists
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