The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As told to Alex Haley)

So you're holding the autobiography of Malcolm X along with Alex Haley.

It's my first time actually reading this from start to finish.

But just a very, very smart man. Very, very, very smart man. And basically his words in the 60s and what was going on. It's actually what's going on today still.

He's read the Godfather, the autobiography of Malcolm X.

I just finished reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and I'm still reeling from it.

That book just makes you question everything you thought you knew. It was a heavy read.

I think he was holding like a Malcolm X book at the time.

What's your favorite part of the book so far, LeBron?

I don't know. I just haven't got through it yet.

It's like no shit, dude. You didn't pay attention at all.

I got a copy of the autobiography of Malcolm X and it really reignited my ambition.

He's a woke virtue signaller to such a degree that he pretends to read books about Malcolm X. You've probably seen this clip before, but honestly, it's just too good to not share again. Here it is. ... So you're holding the autobiography of Malcolm X along with Alex Haley.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Where Do We Go From Here by Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis, The Man Not by Dr. Tommy J. Curry.

I mean his, the autobiography of Malcolm X is one of the craziest things they'll ever read.

It's very accessible. I really recommend anybody throughout there, especially if you're a young guy, go out and read that.

Malcolm had some real struggles in his early youth and if you're trying to get disciplined or try to change your life, reading that book no matter how you feel about racial issues because it's really not what he's been about at all is going to be really important to you.

I mean his, the autobiography of Malcolm X is one of the craziest things they'll ever read.

It's very accessible. I really recommend anybody throughout there, especially if you're a young guy, go out and read that.

Malcolm had some real struggles in his early youth and if you're trying to get disciplined or try to change your life, reading that book no matter how you feel about racial issues because it's really not what he's been about at all is going to be really important to you.

I mean his, the autobiography of Malcolm X is one of the craziest things they'll ever read.

It's very accessible. I really recommend anybody throughout there, especially if you're a young guy, go out and read that.

Malcolm had some real struggles in his early youth and if you're trying to get disciplined or try to change your life, reading that book no matter how you feel about racial issues because it's really not what he's been about at all is going to be really important to you.

And I think Frederick Douglass had it right that power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will. Remember, the first spoiler parties were labeled as such before the Civil War and the spoiler parties were those who were fighting for the abolition of slavery.

I mean Dick Gregory wrote a whole bunch of books on this type of shit, right?

I've been saying it since I was a young man. Our issues in this country are profound, and at the core of them is the relationship between black people and white people. It just is. We have yet to resolve that.

LeBron James was reading the autobiography of Malcolm X and like there's all these big LeBron is like one of the fakest people that's ever lived.

The sports reporter quizzed LeBron James several years ago on what he had learned so far from reading the autobiography of Malcolm X.

It was I mean, it is amazing.

I grew up reading stuff like... Message to the Black Man by Elijah Muhammad, autobiography of Malcolm X, you know, yeah, great book called From N****s to God.

After reading the autobiography of Malcolm X at age 15, Malcolm brought me into knowledge of self, brought me to Islam, schooled me on the black radical tradition.

My pops...He gave me books like the autobiography of Malcolm X which led me down a rabbit hole wanting to know everything I could about the NOI, but also any book that I saw Malcolm X reference I read it, you know

I always tell people all the time start with the autobiography of Malcolm X

Lawrence Fishburne read autobiography of Malcolm X

You know he gave me books like The Autobiography of Malcolm X which led me down a rabbit hole of wanting to know everything I could about the NOI but also any book that I saw Malcolm X reference, I read it you know and I've always done that.

always tell people all the time start with the autobiography of Malcolm X

All praises due to Allah that I moved to Boston when I did. If I hadn't, I'd probably still be a brainwashed black Christian.

All praises due to Allah that I moved to Boston when I did. If I hadn't, I'd probably still be a brainwashed black Christian.

I kind of just started a couple days ago But I've read and a lot of a lot of notes over the years it's my first I'm actually reading this from start to finish but just a very Very smart man very very very smart man and

I kind of just started a couple days ago But I've read and a lot of a lot of notes over the years it's my first I'm actually reading this from start to finish but just a very Very smart man very very very smart man and

Basically his words in the 60s and what was going on Is actually what's going on today still? It's like kind of hard to watch right? It's painful

I kind of just started a couple days ago. But I've read and a lot of a lot of notes over the years it's my first I'm actually reading this from start to finish but just a very Very smart man very very very smart man and

Dave Brinney's Malcolm X book. So Lakers star still on that first page.

I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colors from blue-eyed blondes to black-skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had led me to believe never could exist between the white and the non-white.

American needs to understand Islam because this is the one religion that erases from its society, the race problem. You may be shocked by these words coming from me. But on this pilgrimage, what I have seen and experienced has forced me to rearrange much of my thought patterns previously held and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions. I have always kept an open mind which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

You know, do I have your Malcolm X is remarkable?

I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colors from blue-eyed blondes to black-skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had led me to believe never could exist between the white and the non-white.

American needs to understand Islam because this is the one religion that erases from its society, the race problem.

but like when i read Frederick Douglass' story or Malcolm X's story i much more relate to that coming of age story than i do hold in coffee old who seems like a little bitch to me basically uh like hold it like a rich kid going to private school you know like uh i had no conception of what that experience was but then this other person who you wouldn't so by increasing the representation some people are maybe reading Frederick Douglass and going he looks like me i'm empowered by that but also by making things diverse you're matching experiences between people who maybe on the surface don't look or seem alike at all