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Sat 05 May 2011Malcolm without the myth-making
BIOGRAPHY:Malcolm X: A Life of ReinventionBy Manning Marable, Allen Lane, 592pp. £30
HE WAS A HYPOCRITE, a misogynist and a racist who once attempted to collaborate with the Ku Klux Klan. He preached a bogus religion and was loyal to a charlatan. He was probably an anti-Semite, and he once shared a stage, uncritically, with the American Nazi Party. He gloated at John F Kennedy’s death and called Martin Luther King an Uncle Tom.
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