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After Malcolm X returned from haj to Mecca, he renounced black seperatism. He spoke before representatives of the media and remarked that it was his intention to build black conciousness, not seperation. Whites were in fact invited to participate in helping to foster a new positive outlook on "blackness," they could participate and contribute, but X felt that blacks in America had to do the actual work themselves. Malcolm X didn't have that long to live as a new cosmopolitan mainstream, non-seperatist Muslim, before the Nation of Islam in all probability ordered his assasination.
And as for Michelle Obama's thesis, I give AKASmith the most credit, because much to her own inquisitive credit she actually read it, and remarked that it was pretty sleep inducing. Now that I know of a new cure for insomnia, I have a new hope for a good night's sleep.
