@comrade_sinque: The book you think taught you Malcolm X? It wasn’t written by him. “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” was published nine months after his assassination he never saw the final manuscript. Doubleday’s lawyers scrubbed passages, stripped his vernacular, and Alex Haley a liberal Republican integrationist shaped a radical separatist’s story into something safer, simpler, more palatable. That’s the version millions of people still think is Malcolm. If you actually want to know him the reinvention, the contradictions, the parts nobody wants to sit with, read Manning Marable’s “A Life of Reinvention.” Columbia historian. Pulitzer Prize winner. Spent nearly two decades on this book. He doesn’t flinch from the ugly stuff, Malcolm’s exaggerated criminal past, the complexities Haley buried. This is the good, the bad, and the ugly. The full man. #BookTok #bookrecs #creatorsearchinsights #booksyouhavetoread

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