Talk:Malcolm X/Archive 1

message: Autobiography, page 231, the maiden name of his wife is given as Betty X. Malcolm (and Betty) changed their family name to Shabazz after Malcolm's hajj and tour of Africa, perhaps to signify that he had "recovered" his African heritage.
Her maiden name was Sanders...Malcolm used the name Shabazz in correspondence in 1953...Betty joined NOI NY Temple 7 in 1957... See Malcolm's FBI FOIA 
HTH --Nazikiwe 08:54, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wife's name 

message: Link in article to Black Legion is wrong as far i can judge. -Svdmolen 20:46, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Black Legion]]

message: Right now, the article covers the events of Malcolm X's life, but only touches on what he advocated.  I think we should have a section describing the positions he took during his life, with excerpts from his writings and speeches.
:Good idea. Go for it. -Willmcw 21:51, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
::Should we consider the tab to be called Politic/Philosophy?  And have broken down into summarize points that will be then further expanded?  I do believe that everything must be cited.Marcelino 18:27, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malcolm X's Positions 

message: I think we have a good compromise in the insanity reference. The anon, however, insists on removing the fact that Malcolm X claimed to have feigned insanity to dodge the draft. Does someone have a copy of "Autobiography" handy? It's in chapter 7 somewhere. At any rate, the anon has some interesting comments on my talk page. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 05:46, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: As long as we state it as Malcolm did in the letter -- "if they think I'm crazy, it's not too hard to convince them" -- I'm happy with it. I've got the page on my watchlist, and if the anon gets his panties in a bunch about it, I'm perfectly willing to continue reverting his silliness.—chris.lawson (talk) 06:38, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  insanity 

message: I've temporarily removed the following from the first paragraph of "Biography":
:According to FBI reports, Malcolm X was 6 feet, 3.5 inches (192 cm) tall.
It didn't fit with the rest of the paragraph at all. There's ample citation for it, but it needs to find a home elsewhere in the article. Anyone have suggestions for how we can work this in, or whether it even matters that we keep it? His red hair is a characteristic that's important to the article, since one of his nicknames was "Detroit Red", but I don't see how his height matters in the least.--chris.lawson 03:59, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Physical characteristics 

message: I'm trying to disambig the temple page, but don't know enough about the Nation of Islam. I assume it would be correct to have the reference to temple point to mosque, but am not positive. D-Rock 12:14, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Temple?

message: Despite his change of view, he was most remembered for his anti-White speeches, which were emulated by other black nationalist organizations such as the Black Panthers.
I wouldn't really consider the Black Panther Party to be anti-White (certainly not in the way Malcom X was during his NOI years), they had much more in common with X's post-NOI views. Saul Taylor 10:13, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Anti-White?

message: The Boston link could do with updating to point to the appropriate Boston article, but I'm not sure which it is. --John 23:06, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Boston link