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Remembering Malcolm X: Angela Davis, Ilyasah Shabazz, Ben Crump & Others Speak at the Shabazz Center

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4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

On February 21, the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center hosted an event to mark the 58th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination. Malcolm, who was born on May 19, 1925, was shot dead on February 21, 1965, in the Audubon Ballroom. He was just 39 years old.

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We do libation.

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We do libation in honor of the ancestors, those who came before us who paved the way so

2:58.5

that we can enjoy our freedom. But first and foremost, I must ask the elders, any 170

3:08.5

and above, I need your permission so that I can do libation. Why do they say yes?

3:18.5

They have your permission.

3:21.5

Okay. First libation goes to the most high, one force, one source, the generous, the compassionate, the one who oversees us.

3:34.5

Our first libation goes to the most high, caught by many names. But in the end, when we shed our skin, it's one force, one source,

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the most high, our shame, our shame, our shame. Second libation goes to the gardens of the four corners and the five elements of earth, water, fire, air, ether that the most high has for us to sustain us on our journey until the end, our shame, our shame, our shame.

4:08.5

Next libation goes to the atrocity, the Holocaust, the African Holocaust, of course the Atlantic, 13 million. Some decided to take their lives, some were killed, great, mutilated.

4:25.5

We owe them our honor and our allegiance. They have forced the ocean by skeletons, some ended up in New York, some ended up in South America, some ended up all over the world.

4:41.5

But they are the reason why we are here, our ancestors. We pay our shame and libations to them, our shame, our shame, our shame.

4:52.5

Next libation goes to the civil rights leaders, martyrs, and participants who paved the way for us, for us, so that we have freedom to do to be our education system, how we look, so we can regain our culture and our language.

5:11.5

We pay allegiance to the civil rights leaders and martyrs, our shame, our shame, our shame.

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There are many who use their gifts of art and music to express their culture. We honor them, our shame, our shame.

5:35.5

Before the enslavement trade, there was architects, astronomers, surgeons, we were great people, and we need to honor our paths so that we can come forward and be encouraged to take that in our consciousness.

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And if you need help call on the ancestors who are in your field, we honor them, our shame, our shame, our shame.

6:05.5

We honor Malcolm X, his family, his grandfather, his grandmother, his father, his mother, his siblings, we honor them, our shame, our shame.

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We honor his grandchildren, those who are on the other side and those who have paved the way with the eons and eons before.

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Us shame, our shame, our shame.

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We honor leaders, the leaders, Marcus Messiah Garvey, Dr. Ben, the inspirers, the educators who keep our history in the forefront so we don't forget who we are.

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We honor the historians, our shame.

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And I want to have a special, special libation for Dr. Betish Abbas, his wife and his support, our shame, our shame.

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