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Part of Death of Malcolm X, call for increase in African unity discussed at forum, February 26, 1993

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Death ofMalcolm X, call forincrease
in African unity discussed at forum
EVERISTE AMBRIS
Spectrum Staff Reporter

A four-member panel reopened
the case of 'Who Killed Malcolm
X' at a forum last Wenesday and
suggested the assassin was the
"military industrial complex" of
the U.S. government.
Uhuru Muza and Changa
Lumumba, members of the All­
African People's Revolutionary
Donald
Brother
Party,
Mohammed of the Nation of
Islam and Sabir Rasheed of the
Propagation of Islam led a two
and a half hour discussion of who
killed Malcolm X and why.
Possible 'threat'?
The panelists expressed the
belief that the Central Intelligence
Agency and the Federal Bureau
of Investigation perceived Mal­
colm as a "threat" because he
sought to unify and organize all
African people around the world,
similar to the plans of Marcus
Garvey and Nat Turner.
The panel explained that the

Islamic religion brought changes
to people's lives rapidly through­
out the world, and some thought
that America was not ready for
this transformation.
Lumumba called attention to "a
conscious and deliberate plan to
infiltrate black organizations and
destroy black leadership" imple­
mented by the U.S. government.
According to Mohammed, the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
the Black Panther Party and Mal­
colm were all targets of this
destruction by the FBI and the
CIA.
Muza added that Malcolm had
traveled to African countries such
as Ghana, Guinea and Tansania
and to Mecca, where he convert­
ed to Orthodox Islam; thus, the
U.S. government was making an
effort to prevent the unity
between Africans in Africa and
those Africans in America.
Call for unity
"Although it is important to
find out who killed Malcolm X, if
we loved Malcolm X we should

not look for revenge but try and
continue what people like Mal­
colm X and the honorable Marcus
Garvey were trying to do, which
was to come together in way of
organization and unity," Muza
said.
"We are the minority in Ameri­
ca," he continued, "but the major­
ity in the world. We need to des­
perately make a contribution to
the masses of the people, get
organized as African people and
unite under one organization .
Whether Afro-American or Afro­
Caribbean, we are all Africans."
"The death of Malcolm X is
something that America is con­
fused about," graduate student
Hanif Khalak said. "Understand­
ing who killed him and why can
make clear what the sources of
racism and injustice are. The fact
that both the FBI, CIA and the
Nation of Islam were involved
demonstrates that this system dri­
ves racist violence, and the Nation
of Islam was not a solution to this
violence, but a tool used."
The forum was sponsored by
the Black Student Union.