In 1971, at the age of nine, I made my first politically motivated contribution. I was on my way home from what we called the “stationary store” around the corner where I would spend my allowance on comic books and candy, the two things most precious to me, particularly when consumed together.
I remember when a pay phone went from a dime to quarter!
As an intern at the Heritage Foundation in 1985 my friend and I attended a speech given by Farrakhan. Both about 15, white and Jewish, we were the speech's antagonist. Not only antagonist but "devils". The good Rev called for our murder. Eyes were on us, then they swooped in, a team of bow-tied, bespectacled security. All of them linebackers. Their protection was hard for us to reconcile with their leader's command that we deserved to be and needed to be killed. Sound like a good college application essay? Well it was mine.
In 1993,. Farrakhan said this about the assassination of Malcolm X.
"Was Malcolm your traitor or ours? And if we dealt with him like a nation deals with a traitor, what the hell business is it of yours?"
It says something about the NOI that their harshest words were for whites and Jews, but it was Malcolm X that they killed. He was the big danger to their "business model" of hate speech.
Ha! I am 1969. I think when brother David introduced me to the world of candy, snickers was $0.35. Pretty sure. Pay phones his $0.25 in 1985. i found the new cost so modern. Stunning even. When I started paying for hotel rooms in the 1990's, the rubicon for me was $199/night. Anything above was CRAZY.
I remember when a pay phone went from a dime to quarter!
As an intern at the Heritage Foundation in 1985 my friend and I attended a speech given by Farrakhan. Both about 15, white and Jewish, we were the speech's antagonist. Not only antagonist but "devils". The good Rev called for our murder. Eyes were on us, then they swooped in, a team of bow-tied, bespectacled security. All of them linebackers. Their protection was hard for us to reconcile with their leader's command that we deserved to be and needed to be killed. Sound like a good college application essay? Well it was mine.
In 1993,. Farrakhan said this about the assassination of Malcolm X.
"Was Malcolm your traitor or ours? And if we dealt with him like a nation deals with a traitor, what the hell business is it of yours?"
It says something about the NOI that their harshest words were for whites and Jews, but it was Malcolm X that they killed. He was the big danger to their "business model" of hate speech.
I remember candy bars being a nickel. Get off my lawn!
Ha! I am 1969. I think when brother David introduced me to the world of candy, snickers was $0.35. Pretty sure. Pay phones his $0.25 in 1985. i found the new cost so modern. Stunning even. When I started paying for hotel rooms in the 1990's, the rubicon for me was $199/night. Anything above was CRAZY.
About that anti-semitism, think about being 39. At that age, aren't we all a work in progress? The US is poorer for the loss of those two men.