I agree with Malcolm X's daughters. I love Malcolm X and I love Manning Marable so I have been struggling for over a year trying to understand why Dr. Marable made these very questionable editorial decisions. How would Dr. Marable feel if someone published a letter about the intimate details of his sexual relations with his wife and then called such a story scholarly and newsworthy? I am really having difficulty getting my head around why Dr. Marable and his publishers felt this was acceptable. Is this yet another divide-and-conquer tactic by people who oppose Afrikan freedom, justice and equality? Time will tell. GI
Malcolm X's daughters unhappy with new book
NEKESA MUMBI MOODY, AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Two of Malcolm X's daughters are unhappy that a new biography alleges their parents' marriage was strained and that their mother — and possibly their father — were unfaithful.The marriage "was definitely faithful and devoted because my father was a man of impeccable integrity, and I think that most people, if they're not clear on anything, they're clear that he was moral and ethical and had impeccable character," Ilyasah Shabazz said Wednesday.
Ilyasah and Malaak Shabazz spoke to The Associated Press about "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention." Author Manning Marable, a highly respected scholar who worked for more than 20 years on the book, died last week of complications of pneumonia just before publication. Malcolm X's daughters did not speak to Marable for the book, which draws upon thousands of interviews, government documents and private papers.
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