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line with a story: “Malcolm’s Doom Decreed by God, Not the’Messenger (Elijah Muhammad)” Ee jah, in commenting on Malcolm's death, said:- “} didn’t harm Malcoim ... his foolish teaching brought him to his own end.” . UT MALCOLM GAVE as good as he got. “Religious fakery” was his description of Eli- jah’s teachings after he broke with his aging mas- : ter. Malcolm’s way was Strong words. He expressed -. | pleasure publicly when an alr crash in Paris killed i many of Atlanta’s most prominent citizens, for . example. i In Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, New . York—wherever I spoke with Negro—and white— _ Jeaders I heard, at worst, grudging respect for him, i His name ‘s remembered, his organizations are de= funct. ’ A top law enforcement man who followed the career of Malcolm from his years in prison said | frankly: “He was mean and he was smart. I'd like to have just talked to him one time man to man.” Malcolm was often wrong. His bellef that King - Q James wrote Shakespeare seems silly. His breath- — _z | less praise of Ghana's dictator, Nkrumah, who has | 8 done his share of hunting down Negroes, is ember- “3 " Fassing. . -@ The Malcolm I remember rings through in his | a autoblography: nes “Tm telling it Uke it is! You never have to; = worry about me biting my tongue if something I ; a know 25 truth is on my mind. Raw, naked troth | e exchanged between the black man and the white ay man {fs what a whole lot more of is needed in this 2 countfysa» . _ ~~)