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malcolm, martin, spike, denzel, elijah and mohammad should read this

(sort of memeing but if anyone is actually called these here then actually read this and don't be a pussy about it, his stories about his childhood, prison, mecca and elijah mohammad being a sleaze are pretty interesting and he drops his conspiratorial beliefs towards the end of the book too)

Cameron

> begins with childhood and youth as a hustler in Boston
> dealing drugs, smoking weed, Billie Holliday, jazz, eventually gets arrested for burglary
> becomes well-read in prison, is introduced to the Nation of Islam by his relatives
> "according to the honourable Elijah Muhammad..."
> cue tin-foil hat conspiracy about how white people were manufactured for evil by a mad scientist who made black people breed with lighter toned people and it was also how chinese people were created
> white people went to live in caves for a couple thousand years and Elijah Muhammad was there too btw
> btw Moses was there and you can't say he wasn't there because nobody really knows if Moses was there because his books are gone therefore he was there
> muslims in Mecca have done a bad job of not being muslim enough

Holy shit. Anyone else read his book?