Yesterday Malcolm X’s killer Thomas Hagan was released on parole. For the past eighteen years he has been on a work release program. Now after serving “44” years he has been allowed complete freedom. I think that is BS.
Malcolm X was a great man and I believe in some of the issues he stood for. I believe you have to fight for what is right not timidly but forcefully and by any means necessary. Malcolm X was and is the personification of a man. He meant what he said and said what he meant even at the cost of his life. He loved Betty with every fiber of his being I could tell just by watching them interact with one another in old news reels. Malcolm X was in search of his truth anything else was nonsense to him. Basically that is what we all search for our Truth.
Charles Manson and his followers are still in California prisons for the murders of five people. The crimes they committed were heinous in every way. They are right where they belong. The killing of Malcolm X was just as heinous to me because not only did Hagan kill one man but he destroyed a strong black family. He took away a father, husband and leader. His cowardice act trickled down to affect generations of Malcolm X’s offspring.
One of Malcolm X’s grandsons whom was named after his grandfather is the typical street thug Malcolm X rallied to save. If his grandfather would have been alive this misguided young man would have known better than to start the fire that burned his beloved grandmother over 70% of her body. The fire which ultimately led to her death.
Thomas Hagan may have killed one man but he did so with malice and thoughtful planning. His conspirators needed to go to jail also but it was not to be. Change turns an ordinary man either into a monster or a Savior, Malcolm lived as both. Had Malcolm X been born of a different skin color I know he would have been a great man to all American’s. Instead of a great man to some.
Malcolm X was a threat to the “great John Edgar Hoover” an admitted racist. He represented what America at that time truly feared an angry, self educated, responsible black man. He feared no one, not the government whom couldn’t believe that all African American's didn’t actually like licking the bottom of the barrel. Many whites at that time didn’t understand we wanted what they had a chance to really live that elusive American dream. Just give us a chance some civil rights leaders asked. Malcolm X didn’t ask he Demanded. When his voice grew too loud he was silenced.
Thomas Hagan should have stayed in jail for the rest of his life not in a work release program for the past eighteen years able to raise a family and work. He is a killer. Time may have passed but the repercussions of his crime is generational. Malcolm X was a wanted man not only by his own community but by any means necessary.
Malcolm X's killer is freed on parole | freep.com | Detroit Free Press
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