Glad you brought "Abu Bakr" in the conversation, coz I've never heard of him and I will check him out today. I was never aware that the gov't of Trinidad & Tobago was going to be overthrown by its local Muslims. Gotta check on that!!
"""how interesting that his mom was a practioner of 'Obeah'(closely related to voodoo) yet encouraged her son to pass as white. Lawwd!""""
Yep, this part was mentioned in the 2nd video, his mum was a jet black woman from Barbados originally and when she moved to Trinidad she met his father a white Portuguese guy with whom she lived and got her first baby(Michael X) with him. In the documentary Michael X said his mum believed White folks are the best thing in the world 
lol. And I swear when I first looked at Michael X I knew his "lighter" complexion kinda played a role in his pro-black revolution in Britain. He was deemed the Malcolmx of the UK. He plunged into a good fight in Britain as well as in Trinidad. He scared Kris!!
By the way have you heard of Michael X before? Or is it the first time?? Too bad you can't access the videos.
""""(btw, i have relatives who believed in and practiced Obeah.)""""
Hmmmmm, Obeah is one of the few African spiritual religions you'd find in the Western Hemisphere, mostly practised in the Caribbean Islands of Jamaica and Trinidad. 
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This is some deep shit!
This is some deep deep shit!
When i first read the heading, especially with the Trinidad reference, I immediately thought you were posting about the attempt to overthrow the gov't of Trinidad & Tobago by Abu Bakr & his Jamaat al Muslimeen supporters which ended in a total flop!
But this Michael X thing seems to go deeper and wider and draws in people like Bernard Coard of the Grenada revolutionary movement etc etc.
I need to pay attention to these videos cuz it covers not only stuff happening in London and its West Indian intellectuals/activists circles, but also touches politics in the Caribbean at that particular time.
Sadly, i'll have to check the videos from other outlets since every time I've tried an alert warns us that "Video is unavailable", blah blah blah...
😂👍😂😜..how interesting that his mom was a practioner of 'Obeah'(closely related to voodoo) yet encouraged her son to pass as white. Lawwd!
(btw, i have relatives who believed in and practiced Obeah.)
I encourage anyone who can't access the videos to read Michael X wikipedia page to understand how revolutionary & controversial he was. At certain points he even had the support of Angela Davis, Forbes Burnham(guyana), and Beatle John Lenon. Very interesting stuff!
Great stuff Mr TheOne!
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