The record states that Malcolm X went to solicit the help of the Klan to obtain land on which it could set up its own govt.
That's in the FBI record. It does not seem to me that the Klan could be motivated to lend support to the NOI's seizure of land unless the NOI promised something in return. Is that a reasonable inference?
Malcolm X himself says he entered into tacit agreement with the Klan, not that he simply attended a meeting with them. The historical record seems to provide no details of that tacit agreement. I suggest it is reasonable to infer that the NOI, though putatively a black self defense organization, agreed not to defend SNCC--those liberal pinko integrationists--from Klan terror. And Malcolm X agreed not to mobilize his big base to support the freedom struggles. After he broke from the NOI, Malcolm X seems to have promised to organize support and defense for SNCC, though it does not seem that he actually did much on this front either.
> No, we don't. The main question still is "cooperation" with Klan terror.
> When you couldn't come up with facts to back this ridiculous charge, you
> referred to a fictitious San Francisco Chronicle article. I know what you
Well, we agree that there was tacit agreement with the Klan. You try to construe tacit agreement to simply mean a meeting--a chewing of the fat with Klan buddies. But what was tacitly agreed upon in that meeting? Can that reasonably be construed as cooperation? I am putting forth the argument that what must have been tacitly agreed to can be so construed. And that is what Malcolm X was so shameful about.
By the way, do you think Elijiah Muhammed cooperated with the Klan?
Rakesh