Re: List of books
Gene Woo (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Sun, 12 Dec 1999 12:42:14 -0800 (PST)
I agree. For the record, I haven't read it(it's on my
to read list), but I did see the movie in theatres,
becuase I'm a huge Spike Lee fan. Saying it has racist
remarks is like saying WW2 veterans are racist for
calling asians japs. I'm a Korean American and I get
really pissed when I hear the words gook, chink, jap,
etc..., but those words do reflect a period of history
that shouldn't really be sugar coated.
--- Tim O'Connor <tim@roughdraft.org> wrote:
> At 10:41 AM -0500 on 12/12/1999, you wrote:
>
> >>"Autobiography of Malcolm X" - Malcolm X & Alex
> Haley
> >
> > Let's start a Malcolm X discussion. A friend of
> mine told me he couldn't
> > get through it because of all the racist remarks
> towards whites. I couldn't
> > get through it because I found it to be boring and
> not very well written
> > (but in all fairness I only read the first 60
> pages or so, so I won't
> > back-up my impressions). Another friend of mine
> liked it a whole lot, which
> > is why so many of us started it...
>
> I'd suggest you give it another chance.
>
> It shows Malcolm's move from what he was to what he
> was popularized
> as, and further, to his own type of enlightenment.
> I read the whole
> thing on an Amtrak from New York to Boston and was
> utterly
> mesmerized. The beginning, where he's throwing back
> at white culture
> some of the shit he had to take, is balanced out
> masterfully as the
> book and the man progress. Toward the end, he was
> not anything like
> the separatist people made him out to be. He
> learned humility. He
> learned forgiveness. And he learned the importance
> of co-existence.
>
> I think it's a very fine book about a fascinating
> man. It's not
> always a literally true book (as is the case with
> most
> autobiographies), but it is powerful and, in my
> case, able to change
> your outlook on "the other" (whoever that is in your
> world).
>
> --tim
>
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