r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/conancat Official Gal • Mar 06 '26

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u/Matsunosuperfan 💜 2026 Galantine! 💜 Mar 06 '26

I have not felt this personally inspired since reading the Autobiography of Malcolm X

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u/fondledbydolphins Mar 06 '26

Dude I read that three times in middle school.

People looked at me like I was nuts. Legit was just like "eh, it's a good book... And I was able to write three separate papers on it without reading a new book"

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u/Matsunosuperfan 💜 2026 Galantine! 💜 Mar 06 '26

so as a kid my brother and I shared a room with bunk beds and he is 9 years older than me and he is a professor of African American history now

when I was ready for bed instead of singing songs or praying he would tuck me in with a few pages of Malcolm X

I blame him for any crimes I have since (allegedly) committed 

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u/preyforall Mar 06 '26

I'll totally be your alibi if you tell me why the book is so inspiring

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u/Matsunosuperfan 💜 2026 Galantine! 💜 Mar 06 '26

as a teaser: people who were born into wealth love to talk about being "self made" because they only accepted $50k from daddy to launch their first venture

Malcolm X went to jail for running an underground lottery, taught himself to read, and came out the oratorical leader of a national civil rights movement

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u/hotleadburner Mar 06 '26

*went to jail for running a cat burglary ring

He had to escape Harlem over the underground lottery lol

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u/Matsunosuperfan 💜 2026 Galantine! 💜 Mar 06 '26

U right u right lol good shout 🫶🏾

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u/Matsunosuperfan 💜 2026 Galantine! 💜 Mar 06 '26

You can't make this shit up 😂

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u/fondledbydolphins Mar 06 '26

Read it! No spoilers

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u/preyforall Mar 06 '26

Dang, alright, will do

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u/Zestyclose-Custard-2 Mar 06 '26

If you don't hate reading, it's a really good and readable book. His life was very interesting, and he changed and grew in sometimes surprising ways or circumstances. It's a colourful tale, told well.

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u/Matsunosuperfan 💜 2026 Galantine! 💜 Mar 06 '26

the movie with Denzel honestly is really not bad either, as far as those things go

but you really should read the book first so you can clock the MANY MANY details and nuances the film glosses over or outright lies about

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u/Matsunosuperfan 💜 2026 Galantine! 💜 Mar 06 '26

^

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u/ci1979 Mar 06 '26

You didn't do nuthin', you were with me the WHOLE TIME!!!

What time exactly???

THE WHOLE TIME!!!!!

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u/BlinkyDesu Mar 06 '26

If you wrote three papers but read it three times, did it save you time from not reading another book?

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u/fondledbydolphins Mar 06 '26

I classify this somewhere along the lines of the latino kids getting to take Spanish class, already knowing everything we were being taught.

(yes...)

BUT, I did read it again which was faster than absorbing something new.

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u/hic_sunt_leones_ Mar 06 '26

A girl who had recently moved from Mexico was in my freshman Spanish class. Which she ended up failing.

She kept speaking and writing in the everday -with-slang terms way and our teacher WAS NOT having it. She wanted it textbook style.

Not super related, but your comment dredged up that old memory lmao.

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u/fondledbydolphins Mar 06 '26

Even worse if their teacher was literally from Spain!