Discussion: Iran's Ayatollah Bashes US Treatment Of Blacks With #MalcolmX Hashtag

system1 · February 23, 2015, 10:45pm

Discussion for article #233586

antisachetdethe · February 23, 2015, 11:00pm

Like watching the flip side of Ayatollah Robinson’s rant about #GayMarriage

fargo116 · February 23, 2015, 11:09pm

Is there any truth to the rumor that the original tweets were in cuneiform?

dv01 · February 23, 2015, 11:13pm

Apparently, he was also live-blogging the Oscars. Seemed a bit upset about the way Sound Editing turned out.

doremus_jessup · February 23, 2015, 11:16pm

I guess the Ayatollah is unaware that the Nation of Islam killed Malcolm X.

caterpillar · February 23, 2015, 11:18pm

Ali Khamenei and Sarah Palin use the same twitter ghost-writer.

lonewolf_93 · February 23, 2015, 11:33pm

Interesting…

littlegirlblue · February 23, 2015, 11:36pm

First I had to look up cuneiform, second I laughed. I just jumped into Twitter, maybe I could poke him with my thoughts. In cuneiform.

littlegirlblue · February 23, 2015, 11:38pm

He really flipped out when he saw Ben Affleck because of the whole Argo thing, and he posted that on Twitter as well (no, not really).

dv01 · February 23, 2015, 11:44pm

To be fair, he’s been pretty angry with Affleck ever since Gigli

stephen_maturin · February 23, 2015, 11:58pm

I think that Khameini was trying to draw parallels and convince African-Americans that they are engaged in a common struggle.
I can only guess at the meaning of the dates, but these are my guesses.

“U.S. again vetoes U.N. resolution on Israeli housing” 3/21/97

“Zionist Massacres in 1948: New Evidence,” Ha’ir, May 6, 1992.

“Mossad Linked To WTC Bomb Suspect” The Village Voice August 3, 1993

On August 14 1991, then Defense Secretary Dick Cheney issued what was construed to be a threat to use nuclear weapons in Iraq if there were any use of chemical weapons by Saddam.

Again, only guesses, but obviously they are meant to convey something.

theaney · February 24, 2015, 12:00am

For 2016, I’m going to make sure the that both the Ayatollah and Kim Jong-un are invited to my Oscars Party. And if I can get The Donald to join them, that would be the very height of Awesomeness. (I will call them “The Avengers of Derp.”)

sandyh · February 24, 2015, 12:23am

So when does the Iranian techie who posted these gets himself beheaded? Or perhaps they will blame it on Bibi and Boehner? I would. Who wouldn’t believe it?

sandyh · February 24, 2015, 12:24am

Just call them The Stupids.

lestatdelc · February 24, 2015, 12:58am

All of humanity should be.

mantan · February 24, 2015, 1:10am

Is the pillbox hat an homage to Jackie O?

neal_anderthal · February 24, 2015, 1:20am

Wasn’t Malcolm X killed by a fellow Muslim? Seems to be a pattern developing there. As soon as they get that whole Shia/Sunni thing setteld they can lecture to us. Until then pound sand.

mojojojo · February 24, 2015, 1:21am

Not gonna lie… aside from the syntax issues and the supposed “+50M” black Americans, I don’t disagree with anything he said here. That’s a first…

lestatdelc · February 24, 2015, 1:47am

Except for the whole killing of Malcolm X being done at the hands of fellow Muslims and not by the Government?

jaybeeraybee · February 24, 2015, 2:05am

How was US govt.’s treatment against black #freedom movements? They killed them & applied violence against them. 8/14/1991

Funny, first I thought about the freedom marches in the 1960s and how the dictatorial leader of a unified government would understandably confuse the difference between the US Federal response and some of the State respsonses.

Then I looked at the date and used my amazing powers of Google. Evidently, a reference to race riots in Brooklyn’s “Crown Heights” neighborhood between Orthodox Jews and the black population in the neighborhood sparked by an auto accident/killing… nothing connected to any freedom movements or marches.

I think they need to talk with ISIL a little more on honing their social media strategy.