水川あさみ似の横浜で働く泡姫の徒然草

Hip hop, rap and spoken word artist Mos Def reads Malcolm X's "Message to the Grass Roots" on November 9, 2006. Part of a reading from Voices of a People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn 
and Anthony Arnove) 
http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Peoples-History-United-States/dp/1583226281 
or 
http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100666900

pkm321  2008-11-17

you are so ingnorant

Fluffmister14  2008-11-16

americans dont hate him, you hust do dumbass

rogerwilsonwilson4  2008-11-15

Mos Def is Muslim thats why AMERICANS hate him

SinhoOne  2008-11-13

GREAT !!

zapruder64  2008-11-12

Sudan=Arab=muslim=black

zapruder64  2008-11-12

ARABS a lot of them are also black dangerdoom you sound so funny

Mevlevi1207  2008-11-09

This was such a touching film...I love Denzel!!!

BLUYEiii  2008-11-08

alittle bit...his acting is crazy though

hayeder  2008-11-04

anyone else think he actually sounds like malcom X?

9898Joseph  2008-11-01

you stupid how can you judge a speech with incoherent statements.

Dangerdoom68  2008-10-30

"white/Amer.Indian family" since when do the Indigenous people of the "Americas" proudly boast their European (white) heritage? What's your purpose? Motive? So you're European(white) but then to imply that you're also Indigenous "Native American" who shouldn't be blamed for something you had no control over...sounds like a contradictory statement! Why claim you're also of Indigenous ancestry ?...Is it to simply legitimize yourself on this land in a ill attempt denigrate others...dumb!

dkpcbluver  2008-10-29

I understand that traditional African religion was basically animistic. I am not a Muslim, nor do I define myself as part of any particular religion. All creeds had different religious beliefs before they adopted the ones they have today. I feel that the religious beliefs X had should not take away from what his main goal was, to make his community stable, prosperous, and independent, to take what they had and sustain it--that is being self sufficient, not assimilating.

Dangerdoom68  2008-10-29

dkpcbluver- That so-called goal you talk about "self-sufficiency" is called ASSIMILATION!.. And remember ISLAM was imposed and encouraged on the Indigenous Afro African "black" people when the Arabs invaded Northern African in the 7th century! And sadly many Afro African"black" people believe it's their own religion...nope!... Islam is a creation of Arab Middle Eastern Indigenous people and not of African origin!

IneptTroopr  2008-10-29

Except in regards to Israel, many of the population centers are built on Palestinian villages and towns forcibly evacuated in 1948.

HorneyGoat23  2008-10-29

i love this speech...by Malcolm...BPP's Kwame Ture speaks about this same notion...Pan Africanism..Socialism is the wave...

dkpcbluver  2008-10-29

And please don't tell me what "I and all the Afro Americans" need to do for ourselves unless you are a part of the community or willing to truly help.

dkpcbluver  2008-10-29

lmaoo Never did I say that I personally viewed Africa that way. I am a first generationer in America, not of slave ancestry--though i'm sure i have long lost relatives in America due to slavery. Descendents of slaves had their histories stripped from them--this "vision" you talk about needs to be carried out here, in America, among the American Black community. African-*Americans* are here, currently in America, hence the name. THAT was one of Malcom's goals--self-sufficiency.

Dangerdoom68  2008-10-28

NEVER VIEW AFRICA as a meager starving continent! What YOU & ALL Afro African (black) people of slave kin ancestry NEED is VISION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, COURAGE!....which has been lost and almost rejected by today's Afro African(black) leaders and the masses living in the "Americas" since the time of Marcus Garvey! Look at what the Isrealis created in the desolate arid lands of Isreal!..learn! Rally the masses and nations of the world to HELP and to provide the needed economic resources!

Dangerdoom68  2008-10-28

..."no real desire to go back to Africa for many Blacks" That's the sad thing about many Afro African(black) of slave kin ancestry! Staying here in the "Americas" feeds the notion of conflict which they'll continue to endure. Their options are: 1) ASSIMILATE which can be difficult and resenting because they'll have to adopt and adhere to European (white) culture, etc. OR 2) Adhere to a the Afro African(black) resistance sub-culture which we today say acting "black". ...sad!

dkpcbluver  2008-10-28

Plus with all the images and media saying that Africa is only full of starving children with aids and roaming zebras, going "back to Africa" seems almost like a joke to some people. It's not a random refusal to go back--it's the result of conditioning and practices deemed normal.

dkpcbluver  2008-10-28

America felt safe because they were used to working and living here. they weren't treated as people, but it was home. the problem is that when the slaves were "freed", they often still served under their former owner. they still weren't treated like citizens for a long while after that. from slave days until now, most, if not all Blacks in America knew/know nothing of their original ancestry, therefore there was/is no real desire to go back to Africa for many Blacks.

dkpcbluver  2008-10-28

Bahiyabelly never said that Blacks were the first to be opressed. he or she stated that they were brought as slaves and have felt the FIST of racial oppression. --in the 1860s-early 1900s, what African-American would have the money or resources to travel to Liberia or any other African country and start anew? Where are today's Black people in the worst projects going to get money for a plane ticket to Africa?

likenem  2008-10-28

Detroit yea, this speech was done at my church. The shrine of the Black Modanoa was renting a space to hold service and when the owners of this space heard about MX was speaking they tried to kick them out ofthe buiding.

thenewrapstyle  2008-10-26

mos def is such a smarmy used condom

88hallo88  2008-10-25

to talk in a language that everybody can easily understand is such an important thing and i consider it a gift to put difficult things into simple words. speaking with alien words doesn't help nobody.