July 17, 2025 at 11:05 a.m.

Malcolm X Wisdom


Dear Editor,

Malcolm X may have rivaled MLK in civil rights importance had he lived.

History shows he advocated for violence in his 20’s for civil rights. However, after he returned to the US from an Africa trip in 1964 he told a group of friends at a dinner that he had wasted his previous years in hate.  Sadly, the hate of the Nation of Islam for him took his life in early 1965 and we will never know what great things Malcolm could have achieved.

Malcolm X said a few profound things.  He said the the worst thing for blacks was white liberals. He also said that a black voting Democrat was a “traitor to his race.”  Facts show X to be right. Before LBJ’s 1964 Great Society War on Poverty sent Democrat activists door to door signing up black women for welfare, over 70% of black families had a mother and father and the murder rate much lower. Today that number is reversed with some cities approaching 90% single parent households.  That’s a total unmitigated disaster no Democrat leader called out except NY Senator Daniel Moynihan in the 1980’s.  Bill Clinton reformed welfare when he was POTUS only to have Obama reverse those reforms.  Millions of young black men grew up angry and unguided without fathers and turned their anger on each other and society.

The great actor Denzel Washington says in recorded video that friends he grew up with ended up dead or in prison.  He said he made it because unlike them he had a father who was there for him.

Black Lives “Lies" Matter organization proved white liberal guilt can do great evil over a slogan.  The fools who gave money clearly didn’t do any due diligence. John D. Rockefeller famously stated giving money away was harder than earning it. I visited the BLM site many times.  It was always disjointed and hateful and lacked moral insight.  Patrisse Cullors, the main co-founder, infused BLM with her athiest Marxism and anti-society hate.  BLM was against the nuclear family, anti-male, advocated for the elimination of all prisons and defunding of all police, and Cullors even spoke at Harvard for the destruction of the state of Israel.  Who knows how much of the over 80 million given to BLM she sent to anti-Jewish groups.  No one is checking.

Harvard Professor Roland Fryer exhaustively studied police shootings and found through 2 studies taking almost 2 years there was no racial bias in police shootings and, even more, that the BLM effect against police caused thousands of higher black on black murders - over 1,000 more murders in Chicago, St. Louis, and Baltimore alone.  White liberals should be on their knees asking for forgiveness!

None of us can find truth without demanding critical thinking of ourselves.  Artificial intelligence programs like Grok can greatly assist our search for truth.  2 people I regarded well years ago I no longer do - Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson.  Both have failed and I no longer listen to them.  No bubble for me.

Gregory Erickson

Army veteran and Constitution

defender

Dodgeville, WI

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