I did a little experiment yesterday (May 19,2008) on Malcolm Little's, Malcolm X's, or El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz's birthday. The changes in his name recognizes the changes throughout this great man's life. Throughout the entire day I found his birthday being recognized on 4 television channels briefly, a surprising 17 web pages, and 8 discussions while listening to talk radio. I guess that is the deserved amount of air time for this guy! (Catch my sarcasm!) TV Turnoff week from Yahoo.com says that the average household in America watches a mouth dropping 7 hours and 40 minutes a day, and 150,000 hours in a lifetime! Get this, American's also clock a phenomenal 4 hours and 35 minutes a day on "---tube" alone! With the common book obviously taking the back seat, we have allowed the media to filter exactly what our mind registers. What this does is slowly but surely eliminate great heroes such as Malcolm X. We all have to sit back and really absorb what is going on today in this society that we live in! For more information on television addicts click here.
Peace
Trevor Winston Lee
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