These women loved the old songs and Malcolm X's speeches.
Sure, most had heard these speeches before - but before the election of Obama, they just didn't seem to make sense.
As I watched wanna' be gangsta's slyly wiping tears from their eyes and elderly women repeating every word spoken - maybe this generation will get it.
Maybe this generation just has to be educated with the philosophies of men who may have been ahead of their time.
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You can teach them but I think the majority of wrong has already been done. Got to show them Malcolm X between the ages of 16-25 for the positive effect to germinate and manifest with their children.
Just a silly side kwestin Black J, how did you watch Malcolm X with two elderly blind women?
I'm not that optimistic about the younger generation - I mean 25s and under, there's no material depravation or tangible civil infringement that would get them/us (post 25s) going. This life in some ways is easier than that of Malcolm's time, but it's also a world of deeper capitalist trappings.
People are so numbed to resistance that you can take away their right to free movement without restriction and spy on them as they walk down the street in the name of surveillance of terror, and even brutalise a community's young men as part of police target practice, but as long as they have credit in their pocket and can watch Gaga and SoulJah Boy on the telly, life is goooood!
@ FreeMan - Many from an earlier generation heard the words but few understood what they meant.
They had identifiable reference point.
The words were useless to them because they made no sense.
Maybe with the election of Obama, the Williams sisters dominating tennis, Oprah being Oprah, etc.... - maybe now the older generation can use their experience with the now understood message to help their children and grandchildren.
@ KayDub - They listen to the speeches and music and I tell them what is on the screen. I pause so they can relate stories which they'd lived through from those times. As their grandchildren hear these personal stories for the first time, each kid gets to know a little more about his personal history.
But yeah.. the comfort levels of those who would have been considered "poor" only a generation ago is amazing.
Maybe this current recession will wake people up to the fact that their newly acquired material goods do not give them more freedom at all.
What is paid for by all those credit purchaces is more debt, and in turn they become voluntary slaves to their debtors.
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