Malcolm & Betty Shabazz #1474
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Malcolm & Betty Shabazz
" Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of
our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct
cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that
they can be passed on to our heirs."
Betty Shabazz
Malcolm assumed "X" as part of his name as a literal and symbolic
gesture of purging his identity from a system - namely commercial
slavery - and to "divorce" himself from a race - the American race,
at the time - that he felt he had not consented, through his own will
or that of his ancestors to be a part of. Shabazz was the name Betty
took, based on the Islamic belief that their people were known as the
"tribe of Shabazz." Malcolm X did eventually break with the Nation
of Islam because of serious internal differences, but he never gave
up his beliefs in the fundamental values and ethics the Nation of
Islam espoused.
Islam espoused.
