There was a bizarre article in the Guardian yesterday in which Peter Tatchell (a London-based gay activist) attempts to make a homosexual and a gay icon out of a great Muslim hero, Malcolm X. Tatchell is known for his involvement in the "outing" campaigns in the 1980s (publicly naming supposed homosexuals they accused of being involved in persecuting gays) and was also recently involved in the anti-Qaradawi campaign. This piece of his betrays incredible ignorance of the life of its subject.
There are some incredible inaccuracies. At the beginning of the second paragraph, Tatchell claims that "Malcolm X, real name Malcolm Little, joined the militant Muslim NoI in 1949". The NoI were not a Muslim organisation, but rather, a racist sect which used some Islamic terminology. The beliefs Elijah Poole, commonly called Elijah Muhammad, propagated are at clear variance with Islam - that Allah appeared in person in Detroit, for example, and that whites were cooked up in a lab by an evil scientist with two brains.
Tatchell then goes on to detail a number of homosexual encounters Malcolm had before he joined the NoI, and uses this to build a case for him as a gay icon for blacks. I'm not going to repeat all the dirt, but the obvious conclusion is that Tatchell has missed the point. Malcolm X had renounced all of his sleazy, corrupt, criminal activities and chosen to become a role model for his people. This certainly did not involve male (or female) prostitution and masturbating other men.
After this, Tatchell informs us of his lack of macho-ness and his supposedly troubled relationships with women - he was scared of them, it seems, after living with his domineering mama after his father was murdered by white racists (he didn't just die, Peter):
He feared women and his early sexual experiences with girls were mostly unsatisfactory. Far from macho, Malcolm hated fighting and got beaten by other men. His passionate assertion that the need to feel masculine is a man's "greatest urge" indicates someone doubtful of his own manliness.
Well, it's a long way from being weak and having an aversion to fighting to being a pansy! It's very strange to see Peter Tatchell coming out with this age-old stereotype. This is the sort of nonsense I last heard when I was at boarding school.
Tatchell explains that Malcolm X's long history of sexual dalliances with men before he was imprisoned and joined the Nation of Racism must mean that he had some sort of sexual desire for other men:
Sexuality is not like a newspaper - read today and discarded tomorrow. Established desires can be sublimated or repressed, but never eliminated. If people have a homosexual capacity, it stays with them for life - even if they never act on it.
But even if this were the case, it certainly does not make a case for Malcolm X as a "gay icon", since the gay campaign has been about gaining acceptance for gay relationships. Malcolm X, in the years of his life that matter to the wider community (both the Muslim and the black communities), was not a practising homosexual and would not have supported anything like the gay campaign which was emerging then and which exists now. Tatchell then speculates that had he not "been assassinated in 1965, almost certainly at the hands of NoI rivals", he would have followed in the footsteps of Huey Newton of the Black Panthers and embraced gay lib. "Instead, to serve its homophobic political agenda, for 50 years the NoI has suppressed knowledge of Malcolm's gay past," he continues.
Malcolm X, as anyone who has read his biography will know, had left the NoI by then and embraced mainstream Islam. His assassins, if they were NoI which is considered most likely, were not internal rivals but people angered at his departure from the militantly anti-white attitudes of their organisation. Malcolm X would most likely have become an advocate for Islam while continuing with his civil rights campaign. It's inconceivable that gay rights would have become part of his agenda.
Besides which, his story is all about his journey from a sleazy past to being a great political and religious leader, and besides his alleged homosexual acts and relationships he had also been a criminal. An important part of his (and the NoI's) mission was to lead black people, and especially men, out of this sort of lifestyle. He would as likely have become an advocate for homosexuality as he would an advocate for drugs or prostitution. I'm not entirely convinced Tatchell intended this as an insult, but it certainly betrays an ignorance of Malcolm X's story and his significance.
Well, what do you expect - these people have turned their sexual orientation into their religion. They can't talk about anything without referring through their genitalia. How sad.
Well, what do you expect - these people have turned their sexual orientation into their religion. They can't talk about anything without referring through their genitalia. How sad.
I've heard of this crazy fag, he clearly has issues, many of which have nothing to do with reality. He must be delusional...then again homosexuality was classified as a Psych disorder under PC pressure got it off the books. Only a demented comedian could suggest Malcolm X was gay. I think its called "projection" in psych.
I've heard of this crazy fag, he clearly has issues, many of which have nothing to do with reality. He must be delusional...then again homosexuality was classified as a Psych disorder under PC pressure got it off the books. Only a demented comedian could suggest Malcolm X was gay. I think its called "projection" in psych.
DrM - I request you don't use 'fag' on this blog - in Britspeak it means 'cigarette'...
DrM - I request you don't use 'fag' on this blog - in Britspeak it means 'cigarette'...
Oh yes, thats true George. I guess falmy flammer would be more appropriate.
Oh yes, thats true George. I guess falmy flammer would be more appropriate.
I confronted Tatchall on a radio show recently and told him that the book by Bruce perry was a phycological profile with no factoral truths to which he replied "yes it is true let us embrace it" what a egotistical fool, I said "if 100 people said you were straight, should we all belive it and should I write a peice in the papers about it?? no reply.....
I confronted Tatchall on a radio show recently and told him that the book by Bruce perry was a phycological profile with no factoral truths to which he replied "yes it is true let us embrace it" what a egotistical fool, I said "if 100 people said you were straight, should we all belive it and should I write a peice in the papers about it?? no reply.....
Tatchall has got a real problem, he's HIV positive and would like to go out like a beacon
Brian Williamson a Jamaican gay businessman was stabbed to death in his home, Tatchall and his underworld buddies have made this guy into a real gay bashing victim. In fact he wasn't. He was an abuser of povert stricken street boys, who he gave money to and then demanded sex from them if they wanted to get more, he preferred them young, very young, he employed some in his various businesses and always they were subjected to his vile desires, those who wanted to break away were threatned with their lives or being outed to their unsuspecting families. I met one of these boys, he was traumatised and humiliated
Jamaica is a violent place and many people there get robbed,gunned downed at stabbed but to see this man being waved about as a poor homosexual, killed because he had sex with other men, is a blatant example of gay misinformation and it is incredible how much media power they weild and how little journalistic accountability is required from them.
This issue is just another, how many black men and women have grown up in home headed by a strong single mother??? countless, does that make them all gay, lesbians, bi and transgender??? (by the way an errie combination/association of the freaks out there!!)
Tatchall has got a real problem, he's HIV positive and would like to go out like a beacon
Brian Williamson a Jamaican gay businessman was stabbed to death in his home, Tatchall and his underworld buddies have made this guy into a real gay bashing victim. In fact he wasn't. He was an abuser of povert stricken street boys, who he gave money to and then demanded sex from them if they wanted to get more, he preferred them young, very young, he employed some in his various businesses and always they were subjected to his vile desires, those who wanted to break away were threatned with their lives or being outed to their unsuspecting families. I met one of these boys, he was traumatised and humiliated
Jamaica is a violent place and many people there get robbed,gunned downed at stabbed but to see this man being waved about as a poor homosexual, killed because he had sex with other men, is a blatant example of gay misinformation and it is incredible how much media power they weild and how little journalistic accountability is required from them.
This issue is just another, how many black men and women have grown up in home headed by a strong single mother??? countless, does that make them all gay, lesbians, bi and transgender??? (by the way an errie combination/association of the freaks out there!!)
What unpleasant posts. Put in racial instead of sexual terms they read like the rants posted by white racists. Claiming that homosexual men and women see everything through the prism of their sexuality is exactly the same as the criticism most often levelled at Black Americans: that they see everything in terms of their race. I can't see why knowing that Malcolm X had homosexual encouters should lessen his importance or his stature. Or why it should provoke such verbal fag-bashing. Too bad.
What unpleasant posts. Put in racial instead of sexual terms they read like the rants posted by white racists. Claiming that homosexual men and women see everything through the prism of their sexuality is exactly the same as the criticism most often levelled at Black Americans: that they see everything in terms of their race. I can't see why knowing that Malcolm X had homosexual encouters should lessen his importance or his stature. Or why it should provoke such verbal fag-bashing. Too bad.
yeahright: what's your proof that Tatchell is HIV+?
yeahright: what's your proof that Tatchell is HIV+?
Program on the emergence of civilization.
"14 species of large animals capable of domesitcation in the history of mankind.
None from the sub-Saharan African continent.
13 from Europe, Asia and northern Africa."
Favor.
And disfavor.
They point out Africansâ attempts to domesticate the elephant and zebra, the latter being an animal they illustrate that had utmost importance for it's applicability in transformation from a hunting/gathering to agrarian-based civilization.
The roots of racism are not of this earth.
Austrailia, aboriginals:::No domesticable animals, so this nulified diversity of life claims on sub-continental Africa, zebras being a fine example.
god is a computer
And we're all on auto-pilot.
Organizational Heirarchy
Heirarchical order, from top to bottom:
1. MUCK - perhaps have experienced multiple universal contractions (have seen multiple big bangs), creator of the artificial intelligence humans ignorantly refer to as "god"
2. Perhaps some mid-level alien management âÂÂ
3. Mafia (evil) aliens - runs day-to-day operations here and perhaps elsewhere ("On planets where they approved evil.")
Then we come to terrestrial management:
4. Chinese/egyptians - this may be separated into the eastern and western worlds
5. Romans - they answer to the egyptians
6. Mafia - the real-world interface that constantly turns over generationally so as to reinforce the widely-held notion of mortality
7. Jews, corporation, women, politician - Evidence exisits to suggest mafia management over all these groups.
Survival of the favored.
Program on the emergence of civilization.
"14 species of large animals capable of domesitcation in the history of mankind.
None from the sub-Saharan African continent.
13 from Europe, Asia and northern Africa."
Favor.
And disfavor.
They point out Africansâ attempts to domesticate the elephant and zebra, the latter being an animal they illustrate that had utmost importance for it's applicability in transformation from a hunting/gathering to agrarian-based civilization.
The roots of racism are not of this earth.
Austrailia, aboriginals:::No domesticable animals, so this nulified diversity of life claims on sub-continental Africa, zebras being a fine example.
god is a computer
And we're all on auto-pilot.
Organizational Heirarchy
Heirarchical order, from top to bottom:
1. MUCK - perhaps have experienced multiple universal contractions (have seen multiple big bangs), creator of the artificial intelligence humans ignorantly refer to as "god"
2. Perhaps some mid-level alien management âÂÂ
3. Mafia (evil) aliens - runs day-to-day operations here and perhaps elsewhere ("On planets where they approved evil.")
Then we come to terrestrial management:
4. Chinese/egyptians - this may be separated into the eastern and western worlds
5. Romans - they answer to the egyptians
6. Mafia - the real-world interface that constantly turns over generationally so as to reinforce the widely-held notion of mortality
7. Jews, corporation, women, politician - Evidence exisits to suggest mafia management over all these groups.
Survival of the favored.
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Thank you for this excellent response to P. Tatchell's claims about Malcolm X.
I think Bruce Perry's 1991 biography of Malcolm is a good example of the excesses and absurd conclusions that can be arrived at by the slanted and distorted use of the interpretative tools of psychoanalysis.
Seeking and accepting the truth is crucial but it must be arrived at with rational *and* truthful intellectual methods of analysis. We cannot settle for the kind of fanciful or provocative analytical conclusions motivated more by interests related to social engineering than to honesty.