frequently on the spring syllabus are on the friend's personal bookshelf than the autobiography of malcolm max. he was never taught a class to these kids about teaching the autobiography. and you know, the work in political science is this idea that malcolm is built through the film and through the autobiography is the kind of magical talent and you got him to get your manhood fix and you started to a malcolm x incantation to represent your anger the american states and your sense of which are organizing political possibilities of black manhood are. and so that meant is incredibly important and powerful and does organizing work. but i'm ready to give it up without to give it up into a void. i suspect that it wasn't quite right, but it wasn't ready to give it up to avoid. but in its text does is allow us to give up five minutes without having to opt-in to avoid. it gives us something else that is contentious and will have to deal with, but this gives us another malcolm who we can live in a very different kind of way. >> what i'd like to do is throw the question out. feel free to just leap into

malcolm x. that that is what the new. we didn't have any other markers within our community to tell us something about the nation of islam and those two things that we knew, not the max and mohamed ali were regarded as positive. so it created this opportunity, it created this door through which we did again to open our minds and we did begin to open our ideas about the range of black experiences that were out there. what is disturbing today, and i don't don't know if this is as truth of the question, what is disturbing to me today is that post-9/11 and the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we had an opportunity to further that opening of our mind. it was actually -- the blast should have opened our minds. the horror of this thing should have opened our minds, and should have made us ask questions and should have made us listen for real answers. and there was a brief moment -- there were two weeks when i thought it was going to happen and then it didn't happen. and in fact, it has really closed the american mind tight in many ways particularly about islam and the very things you were just describing and asking your question. and so, this is the moment in which, and if you