Malcolm X Documentary From Birmingham USA to Birmingham UK #malcolmx #malcolmxspeech #documentary

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MALCOLM X DOCUMENTARY: FROM BIRMINGHAM (ALABAMA USA) TO BIRMINGHAM (UK)

Excerpt from The Last Sermon Of Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h.)
"All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a White has no superiority over a Black nor a Black has any superiority over a White except by piety and good action.
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House number 58 is now demolished, it was the house for sale which Malcolm was reading the sign.
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In the UK, we have an Indian prime minister Rishi Sunak who is also the richest prime minister ever. Rishi is the 2nd non-white Prime minister ever in post with Benjamin Disraeli who was of Italian-Jewish descent. What change did Benjamin bring? By having an Asian Prime Minister, does racism towards Asians disappear? No, no it doesn’t. As brother Malcolm said, “Democracy is hypocrisy”
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Malcolm X, Remembered as one of the most prominent orators and revolutionaries of the twentieth century. The larger-than-life figure of Malcolm X walking the red-bricked terraces of the small Midlands town of Smethwick seem today almost fantastical. But far from fiction, the now-iconic photograph of Brother Malcolm standing tall on Marshall Street in February 1965 is a real and potent reminder of the international dimensions of the Black freedom struggle, from Birmingham, Alabama, USA to Birmingham, England, UK.
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Malcolm X said "I was in Birmingham, Alabama, the other day. This will give me a chance to see if Birmingham, England, is any different."
“I am disturbed by reports coloured people are being treated badly. I have heard they are being treated as Jews were under Hitler.”
Even in the 1960s, the policy for Marshall Street appalled people. Malcolm X believed it was only the beginning of something else that, left unchecked, would see Britain start to repeat the horrors that befell Jews in the Holocaust. "I would not wait for the fascist element in Smethwick to erect gas ovens," he said.
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Marshall Street in Smethwick was especially problematic with residents lobbying the council to buy up empty houses along the street and make them available only to white families.
The Conservative Council agreed to the demands of the racists to stop non-white people from moving in. Black and Asian families were prevented from purchasing or renting properties on Marshall Street and the situation carried on for several years.
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After looking at Marshall Street – at the far end of the street, a group of white women shouted abuse at him but he did not respond to them – he calmly walked back to where we were standing,
Malcolm wanted to walk on Marshall Street alone. He told us he was disgusted by what he had seen. He said it was worse than some parts of the US.” Malcolm challenged all racism. He was not just interested in African Caribbean people. If that was true, he wouldn’t have come to Smethwick, where the focus was almost all on Asians.
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The visit was not without incident either. Malcolm was taken to Marshall Street on that cold February day and heckled by the white residents living there who were proud of the fact they did not want to live alongside immigrants. They bluntly informed him that they did not want any more Black people living in Smethwick. According to eyewitnesses, as the white people barracked Malcolm with abuse he was loudly supported by the relatively few Black and Asian people in the area. Malcolm X did not respond to the aggression he faced, he quietly walked down the street in observation.
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Peter Griffiths, meanwhile, was unable to fulfil his dreams of a British apartheid, being unseated by Labour candidate Andrew Faulds in 1966. His racist vision of UK’s White only streets & Black only streets would have been a model which the rest of The UK would have followed in. That would have pushed back Equal Rights right back and it would have taken a breakthrough Person or Event to tread water. UK apartheid did not materialise & The UK did not follow South African Apartheid which ended in 1994. US Civil Rights broke American segregation in 1968. However present-day Palestinians still live under apartheid which is ironic as The UK initiated this with the Balfour Declaration. The job of liberating Palestine will fall to Imam Mahdi (Peace be on him) along with Prophet Jesus (peace be on him) inshalah.
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As I leave Marshall Street, Birmingham, I leave behind memories of Malcolm X’s visit. El-Haj Malik El-Shabazz is long gone, but in our ongoing struggle for racial justice, his legacy lives on.
Rest in peace brother Malik, asalam alaikum.