Revealed: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Obama and the Kenyan connection

On October 15, 1964, Malcolm X addressed the Kenyan Parliament. Before he left for Africa, Malcolm addressed a Harlem rally and asked his followers to form “Mau Mau” groups in New York to liberate the Blacks. “As I mentioned today – what we need in this country (and I believe it with all my heart, and with all my mind, and with all my soul) is the same type of Mau Mau here that they had over there in Kenya. Don’t you ever be ashamed of the Mau Mau. They’re not to be ashamed of.  They are to be proud of.  Those brothers were freedom fighters.” During his Kenyan visit, he once more praised Mau Mau and argued that White America would never voluntarily give Black Americans freedom unless they were forced to do so.  Malcolm X defended Mau Mau’s target of loyalists and supported the elimination of those standing on the way to freedom.  Those who were killed for supporting the colonial regime included Chiefs Waruhiu Kungu and Nderi Wang’ombe. “In Kenya, the Mau Mau were revolutionary; they were the ones who brought the word ‘Uhuru’ to the fore… they believed in scorched earth, they knocked everything aside that...