It goes without saying that Malcolm was entirely that nigga in the grand scheme of life, but in this portrayal of that small window of his life at that time this nigga was annoying as hell...
...I try to keep in mind that he was breakin off from the NOI at that time so his paranoia was on some “post Quad 2Pac” shit, and he hadn’t made the Holy pilgrimage yet so he was still yappin that “white devil” vitriol - lookin at it like that it puts his anxiety in perspective for me, nigga had the Feds on his tail too and I can’t imagine that being a pleasant experience.
Sam was that nigga to me, I connected to his character much more. Malcolm had very valid points about Sam using his platform and his power to touch people, but not only was Sam right about making business moves behind the scenes (where the power really is), the only thing going on in my mind is this: Bruh sometimes when you smack in the middle of some bullshit, you wanna escape - if a nigga wanna hear me sing about love, grab his woman close in his small ass apartment in the projects, then for 5mins lemme help that nigga escape the bullshit he’s inevitably gonna have to face when my song is over and he walks outside...
...and Jim charging Malcolm bout that light skin shit coulda been a whole other 40min conversation in itself - all these “Jesse Williams”/“Colin Kaepernick” ass niggas be goin hard as fuck, and at the end of the day it’s all Nation Time so it’s not a bad thing, but it’s like, “Bruh watchu tryna prove?”
But after all that thought provoking intellectual shit, my favorite part of the whole movie was Jim bitchin’ Malcolm’s security - hit that my nigga from The Wire wit that “nigga I DARE you. Ain’t enuff Allah in the whole world to stop these hands”...
