Martin Malcolm and America A Dream or A Nightmare Directed by RBG Street Scholar

1. Martin &Malcolm & America:
A Dream Or A Nightmare
Directed by RBG Street Scholar
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2. Martin &Malcolm & America: A Dream Or A
Nightmare
Directed by RBG Street Scholar
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Dr. James Cone's…
…MARTIN AND MALCOLM AND AMERICA: A DREAM OR A
NIGHTMARE is one of the best books I've ever studied.
I made this video (photo-story mini lecture) to introduce a
learning series three years ago. Dr. James Cone, one of
America's best known architects of Black Liberation
Theology, discusses the liberation strategies of Martin Luther
King, Jr, and Malcolm X as they applied to their particular
audiences; Dr. King to the South and Malcolm X to the North.
Dr. Cone argues that Martin King's strategy of non-violent
protest, while quasi-effective in an extremely racist and
segregated South, was not effective in the North because the
discourse and policy of "integration" was already superficially
accepted by Northern white liberals. The "liberal" North found Dr. King's non-
violent social change rhetoric to be more or less agreeable, even as the structures of
racial discrimination continued to subject us (black people) to a brutal double-
standard. Thus, Malcolm X's philosophy of Black Nationalism (separatist rather
than integrationist) that allowed for self-defense epitomized by the slogan "by any
means necessary" was more successful in the North because it more effectively
confronted intrapersonal, socio-structural and institutional racism. Long story
short: two great leaders with different approaches because of different situations,
different audiences, but with the same ultimate goal-freedom, justice and equality
for the masses of our people...

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