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A long-lost, handwritten letter by Malcolm X goes on sale for $1.25 Million!
According to blackamericaweb.com and New York Post, A handwritten letter by Malcolm X will go on sale this week for a whopping $1.25 million.
The letter, written by Malcolm (who was born Malcolm Little, then became Malcolm X, and then El Hajj Malik El Shabazz after his conversion to Islam), was intended for an unknown recipient. The 6-page letter details his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1964 and how it impacted him.
The New York Post reported:
The letter, on stationery imprinted with Arabic writing and illustrations of historic sites, reads:
“I have just completed my pilgrimage (Hajj) here to the Holy City of Mecca . . . which is absolutely forbidden for non-Muslims to even rest their eyes upon. I very much doubt that 10 American citizens have ever visited Mecca, and I do believe that I might be the first American-born Negro to make the actual Hajj itself.”
Recounting his experiences meeting,
“Muslims here of all colors and from every part of this earth,” Malcolm, who was assassinated in 1965, wrote that if Americans converted to Islam, it would stop racism.
“If white Americans could accept the religion of Islam . . . they, too, could then sincerely accept the Oneness of Men, and cease to measure others always in terms of their ‘difference in color,’ ” he wrote. “And with racism now plaguing America like an incurable cancer, all thinking Americans should be more respective to Islam as an already proven solution to the race problem.”
Malcolm X was shot and killed in 1965 during a speech in New York’s famed Audubon Ballroom. He left behind a widow, Betty Shabazz, and six daughters.
