I´ve recently been watching a Netflix series on Malcom X.
I am old enough to remember when he was killed and I even read his “autobiography” when I was a teenager. (The book was actually ghost written by Alex Haley who went on to make a mint with “Roots”, a fantasy account of a slave called Kunta Kinti. No, I swear I did not invent this cuntish-sounding name.)
Everybody knows that Malcom X was killed on the orders of the leader of the Black Muslims, a corrupt scumbag called Elijah Muhammad whose real name was Robert Poole and whose father was a Baptist preacher.
However, the series blames with little proof the white establishment for being behind the murder.
Both X, a mixed-race guy with red hair born Malcolm Little, and Poole, a Chinese-looking character also of mixed race, were jailbirds, but Netflix does not dwell on these inconvenient aspects. Nor does it wonder why they changed their Christian/white names to the names of Arab Muslims who were the main slave traders at the time.
God really is great when it comes to whitewashing the truth.
Nominated by: Mr Polly
