This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub.

Nine people were the Audubon ballroom when Malcolm X was murdered. Nine people in that ballroom were operatives for the government.

FBI agents, they created a special task force to infiltrate Malcolm X's organization.

And nine members were in that ballroom.

And I was thinking about it because I've been watching, as you know,

who killed Malcolm the

wonderful documentary the six-part documentary on Netflix and this struck me to my

core first of all you know as you start to watch and I'm not going to give away too much,

and this is the one thing that is a spoiler, a guess, but you see the way in which

Jagger Hoover and the federal government were really afraid of the

nation of Islam. First again I've talked about this in a previous podcast that Elijah Mohammed was the most surveilled of all people.

More than Martin Luther King and anybody else in the Civil Rights Movement, Elijah Mohammed.

And I mentioned it before, you know, as it relates to fear, because I want to talk about,

you know, the level of fear that they had, that they infiltrated nine people, they got nine people to be in Malcolm's

camp to watch him. Did those nine people know he was going to get shot that day?

One of them was his right-hand bodyguard. How crazy is that? I'm

gonna get to that in a second, but as I was thinking about watching this, I said

damn you know the nation of Islam scared the hell out of this government, America.

And the real fear was in empowering black people, waking up black people. During this time, you know, we think

about the second-class citizenship, Jim Crow laws, the fight for equality

and justice, what was going on in the south with the

dogs being sicked on people, water hoses, you know the colors only this and the

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