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|u/BolivianDancer - 15 hours
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|This was parodied in a skit in the 90s but I don't recall whether it was
|on SNL or MadTV. The politically active prisoner would carry on using
|language that was nearly incomprehensible to those around him.
|u/LeviathanLust - 14 hours
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|[In Living Color - Best of Oswald
|Bates](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71xxvp5R9hE)
|u/BolivianDancer - 13 hours
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|Yay!!! Thanks!
|u/InertiasCreep - 15 hours
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|In Living Color. Damon Wayans did it and it was always hilarious.
|u/buckfouyucker - 10 hours
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|You know why they keep the black olives in a can but green olives in
|a glass jar? Because they want you to think the black olives are
|crazy!
|u/gonzo5622 - 14 hours
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|“1 fish, 2 fish…” lol
|u/MrPaineUTI - 11 hours
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|Mick mack, paddy whack....
|u/BolivianDancer - 13 hours
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|Thanks!!!
|u/BolivianDancer - 13 hours
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|Bingo!!! Thanks!
|u/TheMightyTywin - 8 hours
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|Link?
|u/Yorgonemarsonb - 13 hours
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|Writing things down significantly seems to improve my ability to
|remember them. Even if I never have to look what I wrote.
|u/Ramoncin - 13 hours
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|It's a known phenomenon. I'm studying now for the first time in ages
|and my tutors always advice me to write things down to memorize them.
|u/GetsGold - 13 hours
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|Your brain can get lazy when just reading and looking at things. If
|you write it down, especially by memory without looking, it forces
|you to process it at least into your short term memory (you can't
|have written it down if you didn't temporarily memorize it). Doing
|it repeatedly will help put it into long term memory.
|u/JustCrazyIdeas - 10 hours
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|I've heard of professors that allow students to bring a one page
|hand written "cheat sheet" with any important notes they want to
|include to help with their midterms and final exams. The professor
|in this circumstance is essentially manipulating the students into
|studying and remember key facts that might show up on the exam.
|u/reiveroftheborder - 14 hours
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|He could certainly hold his own in a debate. When he was young, his
|family was attacked by the klan in Nebraska and his father murdered. He
|struggled at school and got in to a life of crime. Meeting NoI in prison
|altered his life in so many ways. After he split from them, I do wonder
|what his philosophy would have been by the end of the 60s and 70s had he
|not been gunned down.
|u/AdventurousPurpose80 - 13 hours
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|He did change his philosophy after he discovered the truth about that
|nation ,and after he went to Hajj. That's why he was gunned down in
|the first place , because he went against them and adopted a new way
|of fighting racism that was different and against their interests .
|There are videos of him talking about it , how he changed the way he
|saw and dealt with things.
|u/Historical_Pound_136 - 9 hours
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|[you sure about NOL being the assassin
|?](https://news.yahoo.com/news/malcolm-xs-family-files-
|lawsuit-024236422.html)
|u/InappropriateTA - 6 hours
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|Nation of Lislam?
|u/pblokhout - 2 hours
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|"His family claims none of the undercover agents protected him at
|the event". You sure you read the article?
|u/AdventurousPurpose80 - 2 hours
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|It's not confirmed. There isn't a solid evidence. But everyone
|suspected it . especially his wife , maybe even was sure of it and
|talked about after his assassination but apparently she was forced
|to take it back. that's what I read.
|u/meandyouandyouandme - 7 hours
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|NOI had nothing to do with his assassination.
|u/Billy1121 - 14 hours
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|Who is Nol ?
|u/AasgharTheGreat - 13 hours
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|nation of Islam
|u/CeruleanBlueWind - 11 hours
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|Not only is he a great orator, he's also pretty funny and sounds very
|modern (his speeches, not his ideologies). He reminds me of some of dl
|hughleys routines.
|u/Kthulu71 - 14 hours
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|Read the dictionary, I've heard. All the other books are within.
|u/Superhuzza - 10 hours
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|Don't even need to do that, just read the alphabet and imagine the
|letters in different orders
|u/PunctuationsOptional - 8 hours
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|Don't even need to do that, just open your eyes and imagine
|u/punkalunka - 8 hours
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|Imagine all the human beings in general or considered
|collectively.
|u/BigUptokes - 7 hours
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|Imagine imagining.
|u/FayeDoubt - 3 hours
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|Imagine rich people making concerned faces into a webcam
|u/p0tty_mouth - 10 hours
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|I just read the dictionary cause I was poor as a kid and didn’t have any
|other entertainment.
|u/fdes11 - 12 minutes
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|were you transformed into one of the most articulate kids?
|u/waldo--pepper - 14 hours
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|Many hours lucubrating he did.
|u/bigfatfurrytexan - 11 hours
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|I, too, have spent many hours lubricating.
|u/waldo--pepper - 10 hours
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|Academic calumny will surely pass you by then.
|u/bigfatfurrytexan - 10 hours
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|Ivr had my academic calamity already, thanks
|u/429300 - 4 hours
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|Yes. He found that many of the other prisoners were quite well read. He
|memorised the dictionary because of his poor vocabulary. Each day he
|would do a page and he said if someone were to ask him what’s an
|aardvark, he would know. It’s a very memorable recollection in his
|autobiography. He equated being able to read a book to being free
|“It was because of my letters that I happened to stumble upon starting
|to acquire some kind of a homemade education. I became
|increasingly frustrated at not being able to express what I wanted to
|convey in letters that I wrote, especially those to Mr. Elijah Muhammad.
|In the street, I had been the most articulate hustler out there. I had
|commanded attention when I said something. But now, trying to write
|simple English, I not only wasn’t articulate, I wasn’t even functional.
|How would I sound writing in slang, the way 1 would *say* it,
|something such as, “Look, daddy, let me pull your coat about a cat,
|Elijah Muhammad—” Many who today hear me somewhere in
|person, or on television, or those who read something I’ve said, will
|think I went to school far beyond the eighth grade. This impression is
|due entirely to my prison studies. It had really begun back
|in the Charlestown Prison, when Bimbi first made me feel envy of his
|stock of knowledge. Bimbi had always taken charge of any conversations
|he was in, and I had tried to emulate him. But every book I picked up
|had few sentences which didn’t contain anywhere from one to nearly all
|of the words that might as well have been in Chinese. When I just
|skipped those words, of course, I really ended up with little idea of
|what the book said. So I had come to the Norfolk Prison Colony still
|going through only book-reading motions. Pretty soon, I would have quit
|even these motions, unless I had received the motivation that I did.
| I saw that the best thing I could do was get hold of a
|dictionary—to study, to learn some words. I was lucky enough to reason
|also that I should try to improve my penmanship. It was sad. I couldn’t
|even write in a straight line. It was both ideas together that moved me
|to request a dictionary along with some tablets and pencils from the
|Norfolk Prison Colony school. I spent two days just
|riffling uncertainly through the dictionary’s pages. I’d never realized
|so many words existed! I didn’t know *which* words I needed to learn.
|Finally, just to start some kind of action, I began copying.
| In my slow, painstaking, ragged handwriting, I copied into
|my tablet everything printed on that first page, down to the punctuation
|marks. I believe it took me a day. Then, aloud, I read
|back, to myself, everything I’d written on the tablet. Over and over,
|aloud, to myself, I read my own handwriting. I woke up the
|next morning, thinking about those words—immensely proud to realize that
|not only had I written so much at one time, but I’d written words that I
|never knew were in the world. Moreover, with a little effort, I also
|could remember what many of these words meant. I reviewed the words
|whose meanings I didn’t remember. Funny thing, from the dictionary first
|page right now, that “aardvark” springs to my mind. The dictionary had a
|picture of it, a long-tailed, long-eared, burrowing African mammal,
|which lives off termites caught by sticking out its tongue as an
|anteater does for ants. I was so fascinated that I went
|on—I copied the dictionary’s next page. And the same experience came
|when I studied that. With every succeeding page, I also learned of
|people and places and events from history. Actually the dictionary is
|like a miniature encyclopedia. Finally the dictionary’s A section had
|filled a whole tablet—and I went on into the B’s. That was the way I
|started copying what eventually became the entire dictionary. It went a
|lot faster after so much practice helped me to pick up handwriting
|speed. Between what I wrote in my tablet, and writing letters, during
|the rest of my time in prison I would guess I wrote a million words.
| I suppose it was inevitable that as my word-base broadened,
|I could for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to
|understand what the book was saying. \*\*Anyone who has read a great
|deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something:
|from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was
|not reading in the library, I was reading on my bunk. You couldn’t have
|gotten me out of books with a wedge. Between Mr. Muhammad’s teachings,
|my correspondence, my visitors—usually Ella and Reginald—and my reading
|of books, months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned.
|In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.”\*\*
|u/Consistent_Fan_4551 - 15 hours
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|Impressive!
|u/whit9-9 - 13 hours
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|And yet when anyone is talking about it. He's always overshadowed by MLK
|jr.
|u/Category3Water - 10 hours
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|That's because MLK never gave a speech where he claimed white women
|bred with dogs in the caves of Europe and that's why white folks are
|born with tails (that secretly get removed at birth), kiss dogs on the
|mouth, and can't stand up straight.
|u/whit9-9 - 10 hours
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|This has gotta to be at least halfway facetious.
|u/Category3Water - 10 hours
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|not even a little bit. here's a pull quote, but I'll also link the
|full speech from late 1962 if you want to peruse it. A lot of
|conspiracy theory minded racism, but also some pretty funny jokes.
|Even from the transcript, you can tell the guy had comedic timing.
|The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the white man went down
|into the caves of Europe and he lived there for two thousand years
|on all fours. Within one thousand years after he had gotten there
|he was on all fours, couldn't stand upright. You watch an old
|cracker today. Crackers don't walk upright like black people do.
|Every time you look at them, they're about to go down on all
|fours. But those who have had some education, they straighten up a
|little bit because they're taught how to straighten up. But a
|black man can be the most dumb, illiterate thing you can find
|anywhere, and he still walks like a million dollars because by
|nature he's upright, by nature he stands up. But a white man has
|to be stood up. You have to put a white man on the square. But the
|black is born on the square. Can we prove it? Yes. You notice in
|the East, dark people carry things on their heads, don't they?
|Just throw it up there and walk with it, showing you they have
|perfect poise, perfect balance. It just comes natural to them. You
|and I lost our poise. We, you, can't even wear a hat on your head,
|hardly, today \[chuckle\]. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that
|within one thousand years after the white people were up in the
|caves they were on all fours. And they were living in the outdoors
|where it's cold, just as cold over there as it is outside right
|now. They didn't have clothes. So by being out there in the cold
|their hair got longer and longer. Hair grew all over their bodies.
|By being on all fours, the end of their spine begin to grow. They
|grew a little tail that came out from the end of their spine...Oh
|yes, this was the white man, brother, up in the caves of Europe.
|He had a tail that long. You ever notice that anything that walks
|on all fours has a tail? That which straightens up doesn't have a
|tail, because when you get down, you see, you just make that spine
|come right on out. And just like a dog, he was crawling around up
|there. He was hairy as a dog. He had a tail like a dog. He had a
|smell like a dog. And nothing could get along with him but another
|dog. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that all the beasts up in
|Europe wanted to kill the white man. Yeah, they tried to kill the
|white man. They were after the white man. They hated the white
|man. So, he says, what the white man would do, he'd dig a hole in
|the hill, that was his cave. And his mother and his daughter and
|his wife would all be in there with the dog. The only thing that
|made friends with the white man was the dog. Everything else hated
|him. He'd sit outside of the cave at night in a tree with rocks in
|his hand, and if any beast came up and tried to get in the cave at
|his family, he'd throw rocks at it, or he'd have a club that he'd
|swing down and try to drive it away with it. But the dog stayed in
|the cave with his family. It was then that the dog and the white
|man amalgamated. The white woman went with the dog while they were
|living in the caves of Europe. And right to this very day the
|white woman will tell you there is nothing she loves better than a
|dog. They tell you that a dog is a man's best friend. They lived
|in that cave with those dogs and right now they got that dog
|smell. They got that dog...they are dog lovers. A dog can get in a
|white man's house and eat at his table, lick out of his plate.
|They'll kiss the dog right on the nose and think nothing of it.
|You're not a dog kisser. You don't see black people kissing or
|rubbing noses with dogs. But little white children will hug dogs
|and kiss dogs and eat with dogs. Am i right or wrong? You -all
|have been inside their kitchens cooling their food, and making
|their beds, you know how they live. The dog will live right in the
|white man's house, better than you can; you try and break your way
|in there and they'll put a rope around your neck \[chuckle\], but
|the dog has got free run of the whole house. He's the white man's
|best friend. [http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/malc
|olm\_x\_history.html](http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speech
|es/malcolm_x_history.html)
|u/whit9-9 - 10 hours
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|Holy crap.
|u/Category3Water - 9 hours
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|He eventually disavowed this type of stuff, but most Malcolm
|quotes people use or post on social media or dorm room posters
|are from a time when he was into this shit.
|u/lord_ne - 6 hours
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|Was waiting for it to say "they've got that dog in them", very
|disappointed
|u/Intergalacticdespot - 14 hours
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|Maybe the X was just where he stopped in the dictionary, to remind him
|in case he got locked up again?
|u/PhiStudios_ - 9 hours
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|LMFAO I JUST GOT IT
|u/IndependentFennel476 - 7 hours
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|Now that was creative. I actually chuckled
|u/Most_Double_3559 - 11 hours
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|I thought this was funny :/
|u/Intergalacticdespot - 10 hours
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|I did too. And I thought people would get that it was a joke too.
|But...reddit gonna reddit.
|u/interfail - 6 hours
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|I don't know why Redditors assume that when no-one laughs at their
|joke it means they didn't realise it was meant to be a joke. We
|don't do it this with anything else. If someone says they don't
|like Dominos, you don't expect them to go "don't you understand?
|It's supposed to be a pizza! How did you not notice?" They just
|accept you think it's a shit pizza.
|u/Eddagosp - 3 hours
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|>We don't do it this with anything else. Yes they do? It
|happens literally all the time with practically everything.
|State ***any*** subjective opinion and someone will crawl out of
|the gaps in space and time to try to explain why you're wrong or
|"just don't get it."
|u/Rocky_Vigoda - 9 hours
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|This speech by him is still relevant.
|https://youtu.be/T3PaqxblOx0?si=T_axB7AZ9PbC_etU
|u/Enchanted_Culture - 7 hours
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|He was so intelligent and articulate!
|u/MiamiPower - 4 hours
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|Great book definitely worth reading. The Autobiography of Malcolm as
|told by Alex Haley
|u/kobeyoboy - 43 minutes
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|Still no confirmation of the identity of the person responsible for
|murdering this man .
|u/xboxwirelessmic - 10 hours
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|I read the dictionary, turns out the Zulu did it.
|u/RexDraco - 6 hours
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|Malcom X was so incredibly different in his earlier days and later. He
|not only learned how to speak better, he always presented himself better
|too. He was strongly inspired by Martin Luther King and his successful
|and peaceful protesting methods. Malcom X was trying to be a radical "by
|force" leader, but when he saw being peaceful as an effective option, it
|changed him and his methods for the better. Id love to see a good
|movie watching the transformation. Dont get me wrong, I think the
|peaceful shit wouldn't work today, it is still inspiring lol
|u/HarveyDentBeliever - 12 hours
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|This is a dumb person’s idea of how to build vocabulary strength.
|u/Isaac_Shepard - 7 hours
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|Eminem reads the dictionary all the time, what are you talking about?
|u/bigfatfurrytexan - 11 hours
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|So...he was autistic?
|u/youre_soaking_in_it - 12 hours
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|Reading the dictionary and taking notes does not seem like a good way to
|get smart.
|u/MarromBrown - 11 hours
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|Well seemed to work for Malcolm X mate what have you done?
|u/Mithrilh4ll - 5 hours
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|Motherfucker believed in sky fairies...he should have tried science
|books instead.
|u/MarromBrown - 58 minutes
|
|Incredibly delusional for random redditors to say that _malcolm
|x_, a brilliant orator who was a key figure in the civil rights
|movement, was stupid. Truly peak reddit.
|