Now as for my personal life mentioned by Doug, I think that's irrelevant. I appreciate the way you pay such careful attention to what I actually write, though it seems to me that you may be a little too pumped up by the other 50 yr old you attended the Million Youth March--Khalid Muhammmad.
The debate on Malcolm X began about the NOI. I guess we disagree that it has made the greatest contribution to the Klan since the invention of the bedsheet. In those NOI days when Malcolm X was the second most popular speaker on the college circuit behind Barry Goldwater, that harsh assesmsnt of the NOI was not unknown among black civil rights groups which were both activist and non racialist. There are many who found the NOI's separatism and quietism, for all its radical talk, quite troubling.
In my post I did not justify my skepticism towards Diop but then I cam to him after reading several other African historians (Walter Rodney among them) whose methodologies and sets of questions were quite different than Diops's.
This computer is on the blink so I can't elaborate from here. Honest.
Rakesh