Malcolm X 100th Birthday:

Today, we honor El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, known to the world as Malcolm X—warrior, thinker, teacher, and uncompromising soldier of the people. But we don’t just commemorate a man. We awaken his spirit in our practice. We pick up where he was martyred. We don’t just quote him—we live him. As New Afrikan Revolutionaries, we don’t romanticize Malcolm. We study him. We walk with the contradictions he carried, just like we carry Ours. He was not perfect, nor was he static. He evolved—from Detroit Red to Malcolm X to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz—and in that transformation, he showed us the power of self-actualization rooted in liberation, not assimilation. Malcolm understood that the United States was not a broken system—it is the system. He rejected integration into a burning house. He refused to ask for crumbs from the table of the empire that enslaved Our ancestors and continues to cage, kill, and exploit our people to this day.  He told us to defend ourselves. Not beg. Not wait. Not reform. But organize. Build. Educate. Train. Stand tall. He said it best: “You can’t have capitalism without racism.” And he never bit his tongue about the role of the state in maintaining white supremacy—through law, through policing, through war, through propaganda. We must ask ourselves: what would Malcolm say about today’s political prisoners, about the Black radicals still in cages for defending their people? What would Malcolm say about the water crises in Jackson and Flint? About the genocide in Gaza? About the continued police murders of our people—unarmed, asleep, running away, surrendering? He would not be marching in circles or pleading with politicians. He would be organizing community defense, building independent schools, establishing mutual aid networks, training the youth, and calling for Pan-Afrikan unity across borders. That is the Malcolm we claim today. To honor him is not to sell T-shirts or hashtags. It is to sharpen our analysis. To love our people deeply, even when they’re still asleep. To agitate. To educate. To liberate. And to do it all with integrity, discipline, and revolutionary love. We are the New Afrikans. Not African Americans begging for rights, but a nation within a nation reclaiming our land, our identity, and our destiny. Malcolm’s legacy is a torch—and it’s in our hands now. So today, don’t just remember Malcolm. Be Malcolm. In your strategy. In your love for the people. In your fire for justice. In your vision for liberation. By any means necessary. Free the land. Free the people. Forward ever. — A Revolutionary Voice May 19, 2025