{"text":"There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X’s} spirit that they became warriors and the powers that be understood them as warriors. They knew that a lot of these other middle-class [black] leaders were not warriors; they were professionals; they were careerists. But these warriors had callings, and they have paid an incalculable and immeasurable price in those cells.","author":"Cornel West","tags":["african-american-history","african-american-men","african-americans","black-history-month","black-leadership","black-liberation-movement","black-middle-class","black-prophets","black-revolutionaries","careerists","conscientious-objection","freedom-fighters","industrial-prison-complex","leadership","malcolm-x","martyrs","mass-incarceration","political-advocacy","political-philosophy","political-prisoners","prison-reform","racial-discrimination","racism","warriors"],"id":346879,"author_id":"Cornel+West"}