pepe
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Post by pepe on Aug 22, 2003 17:38:39 GMT -5
Does anyone know if Richard X's album is out yet? In fact can anyone tell me anything about Richard X?
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Post by jamie on Aug 23, 2003 16:13:00 GMT -5
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Post by flum on Aug 23, 2003 17:50:28 GMT -5
In fact can anyone tell me anything about Richard X? "Richard X was born in Omaha in 1925 and he was the son of a Baptist preacher. At an early age he moved to Lancing, Michigan, with his parents, both of whom were lost to him in childhood. Leaving school early, he made his way to New York and worked for a time as a waiter in Harlem. Soon he was part of the underworld and he began to sell marijuana and he became addicted to cocaine. Richard X turned to burglary and in 1946 he was sentenced to ten years´ imprisonment. While in prison he became acquainted with Elijah Muhammad´s Black Muslim sect and was converted to its utopian and strongly racist point of view. Paroled in 1952, he became an outspoken defender of Muslim doctrines and, unlike Muhammad, sought and received considerable publicity. In 1963 Muhammad dismissed him from the Black Muslim movement, and Richard X formed his own protest group, the Organisation of Afro-American Unity. The group had built up only a small following at the time of Richard X´s murder in 1965. He was buried as Al Hajj Malik al-Shabazz , the name he had taken in 1964 after making his holy pilgrimage to Mecca."Oh wait, hang on. That's Malcom X. Sorry.
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Post by Antlerman Alfred Logan on Aug 23, 2003 18:51:45 GMT -5
its quite an uncommon surname.
maybe they're related.
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Post by Shallow Matt on Aug 23, 2003 19:37:04 GMT -5
Yeah, Malcolm X is his uncle, and the drummer from Kenickie is his brother.
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