Malcom X and holidays that celebrate people in the U.S. should every “person” holiday be taken away?

This is reference to the ongoing poll about Malcolm X that so many of us currently may be commenting on.

Now someone suggested we take away the “person” holidays and that when we celebrate people we are not acknowledging their weaknesses (just paraphrasing here)

But that proposed a good question. Whether you celebrate MLK day or not (majority of the country in black neighborhoods do) what do you think should happen with the holidays and who should get one?

But things to consider here are facts about Malcolm X none of you may know and based on the current school system they definitely do not teach at all.

•Malcom X mom was half white! (Although he opposed integration it was because during those times black men were considered fools if they thought white folks would ever consider them as equal seeing as to how the Klan were overly prominent)

•Macolm’s father was killed by the Klan and thrown into the street and was split in half by a motor car (his “cause” of death was reported and being from the motor car although he was beaten prior and missing and eye and seemingly tied down on the tracks)

•Malcolm preached violence only when someone came to them with violence. He didn’t believe you should ever just turn the other cheek when someone was doing harm against you and that you had the right to fight back when necessary

• Malcolm and his siblings were split up after the death of his father and his mother was deemed unfit to take care of her negro children and taken away while she was placed in a mental institution.

•since Malcolm was the lighter one of his siblings he was given a better home situation because he was fair skinned and that was preferable back then

•Malcolm was jailed for stealing and sentenced to serve a term in jail (one of his crimes was sleeping with a white woman and he was also charged for that)

•As he found religion in jail he came to an understanding of his true self and the world around him where he learned to speak better and to present himself better and to view the struggle of the black man in America as something that needed more attention than the world knew he also did not want to just give the world the watered down version he gave them the hard truth they couldn’t stare in the face

•Malcolm wasn’t a violent man! He was strongly adamant about giving someone exactly what they have to you and that made whites of that time something to fear he wasn’t the negro man that would preach peace because since the Klan existed and had free reign he made sure they knew that there were blacks that would stand up for themselves and definitely give them a fight in order to protect their families and themselves

With all of his accomplishments that aren’t known or well taught to or by the public why shouldn’t this man have a day to celebrate him? Especially since most schools in the nation do not teach him during black history month?