User:Malik Shabazz

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Malik Shabazz
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X
Birth date	April 19, 1963 (1963-04-19) (age 45)
Education	• Kinneret Day School (grades 1–4) • Public school (grades 5–12) • Jewish Theological Seminary • Columbia College of Columbia University

Welcome. السلام عليكم. שלום עליכם.

I am a pension actuary. I live in Washington, D.C., but I'm originally from New York City and I'll probably always think of myself as a New Yorker.

I am "named" after El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, better known as Malcolm X, whose life and words inspire me. I am not related to or associated with Malik Zulu Shabazz of the so-called New Black Panther Party, except that we both chose our names in honor of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.

Despite my social and political views, some of which are expressed below, I am committed to maintaining a neutral point of view in the articles I edit. If you think that my editing is biased, please let me know.

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This user has account-related userboxes because he believes in complete transparency.

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Food for thought

Jerry Falwell: [W]hat we saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be minuscule if, in fact, if in fact God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.

Pat Robertson: Jerry, that's my feeling. I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror. We haven't even begun to see what they can do to the major population.

Falwell: The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.

Robertson: Well yes.

Falwell: And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen'.

Robertson: Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. And so we're responsible as a free society for what the top people do. And, the top people, of course, is the court system.

Falwell: Amen.

The 700 Club, September 13, 2001 [1]

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Articles

Articles and templates I've created

Camp Favorites (a "lost" Phil Ochs album)
Dysaethesia Aethiopica
Eleazar ben Arach
Let Me Tell Ya 'Bout Black Chicks
List of African-American porn stars
Aaron Lopez
David Mills, journalist and screenwriter

Articles that I've written in large part

Recognized articles

This user helped promote the article Emma Goldman to featured article status.

This user helped promote the article Haymarket affair to good article status.

This user has written/expanded 3 DYK articles on Wikipedia.

On 11 February 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Maurice Princet, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

On 10 May 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

On 18 May 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Aaron Lopez, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

WikiProjects

This user is a member of WikiProject African Diaspora

CSB

This user is a member of the Wikiproject Countering Systemic Bias

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WikiProject Judaism.

This user is a member of the Anarchism task force.

This user is a member of WikiProject Discrimination‎

This user participates in WikiProject Palestine

This user is a member of the Antarctica Highways WikiProject.

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WikiProject Israel.

This user is a member of WikiProject Pornography.

C	This user is a member of WikiProject Columbia University.

This user is a member of the Jewish Culture Wikiproject.

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R&B and Soul Music WikiProject.

This user is a member of the Jewish History Wikiproject.

Editing tools

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This user uses the editing tool wikEd

This user reverts vandalism in the blink of an eye with Twinkle!

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Barnstars

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		for pursuing accuracy and fairness in sourcing, and doing it all keen perceptivity and kindness at the same time Tiamut 18:14, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For being encouraging and kind and noticing the contributions of others Tiamat 20:36, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		I see your name on my watchlist all the time. Diligently revering vandalism to all kinds of articles. Great job, Malik! futurebird 01:02, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For your wonderful, thorough and professional sourcing of so much existing text, along with new citation research and writing which brought Haymarket affair to WP:GA. Thank you. Gwen Gale (talk) 22:33, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For furiously fighting the foul foolishness flung at our feet. – Scartol • Tok 02:04, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

		The Special Barnstar
		For defending editors (especially new ones) who are sometimes picked on by others. Eustress (talk) 00:39, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For your hard work fixing and improving African American related articles, I award you this barnstar. Yahel Guhan 01:02, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

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Languages

en-us-n

This user is a native speaker of American English.

es-2

Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.

fr-1

Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.

he-1

משתמש זה מסוגל לתרום ברמה בסיסית של עברית.

ar-0

هذا المستخدم لا يفهم حرفاً في العربية.

עברית

This user regrets that he has forgotten most of the Hebrew he once knew.

Ancestry and ethnicity

This user is of multiple ancestries.

This user's ethnicity is
African American.

This user is of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.

Religion

This user is Jewish.

This user is not Religious.

This user respects the beliefs and religions of others.

Political views

This user believes in a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

This user supports racial equality.

This user opposes racism and admires Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.

This user is a feminist.

This user is an ally of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans community.

According to the Political Compass this user is:
Economic Left (-9.00) and
Social Libertarian (-8.41)

This user supports the anarchist movement.

If this user can't dance with Emma Goldman, he doesn't want to be in your revolution.

This user thinks he would have had a blast with Alexander Berkman.

Profession and education

This user is a pension actuary.

CU	This user attends or attended Columbia University.

JTS	This user attends or attended Jewish Theological Seminary. The bush was not consumed.

Interests

This user is addicted to traveling.

5	This user has set foot in 5 continents of the world.

This user feels like his eyes are watching God when he reads the books of Zora Neale Hurston.

This user adores the works of James Joyce and yes I said yes I will Yes.

"Why don't you write books people can read?"

- Nora Joyce

16June1904

This user would like to remind you to have a gorgonzola cheese sandwich and a glass of burgundy on Bloomsday.

porn	This user enjoys pornography.

This user is an incorrigible cruciverbalist.

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I created a few of these userboxes. You can find them at User:Malik Shabazz/Userboxes.

Places I've lived

The Bronx

Israel

Manhattan

Nassau County, Long Island

Washington, D.C.

Travels

My wife and I are addicted to cruise vacations. We've had the pleasure of passing through the Panama Canal (twice), crossing the Atlantic, crossing the Equator (three times), the International Date Line (twice), and the Prime Meridian. We also traveled around Cape Horn; I'd like to say that we "rounded the Horn", but any comparison between our our luxurious accomodations and the harsh conditions faced by sailors on traditional sailing ships would make a mockery of that phrase.

A week or more

More than one day

A day or so

A few hours

Never left the airport

Upcoming trips

???

"One day"

Inspirations

If I weren't out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity — because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about. — The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Above all, the prophets remind us of the moral state of a people: Few are guilty, but all are responsible. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone. — Emma Goldman

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

New situations and changed conditions make us feel, think, and act in a different manner. But the new conditions themselves come about only as a result of new feelings and ideas. The social revolution is such a new condition. We must learn to think differently before the revolution can come. That alone can bring the revolution.

We must learn to think differently about government and authority, for as long as we think and act as we do to-day, there will be intolerance, persecution, and oppression, even when organized government is abolished. We must learn to respect the humanity of our fellow-man, not to invade him or coerce him, to consider his liberty as sacred as our own; to respect his freedom and his personality, to foreswear compulsion in any form: to understand that the cure for the evils of liberty is more liberty, that liberty is the mother of order. — Alexander Berkman

Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts

Travel like a king
Listen to the inner voice
A higher wisdom is at work for you
Conquering the stumbling blocks comes easier when the conqueror is in tune with the infinite
Every ending is a new beginning
Life is an endless unfoldment
Change your mind and you change your relation to time

You can find the answer
The solution lies within the problem
The answer is in every question
An attitude is all you need to rise and walk away
Inspire yourself
Your life is yours
It fits you like your skin

The oak sleeps in the acorn
The giant sequoia tree sleeps in its tiny seed
The bird waits in the egg
God waits for his unfoldment in man

You gravitate to that which you secretly love most
You meet in life the exact reproduction of your own thoughts
There is no chance, coincidence, or accident in a world ruled by law and divine order
You rise as high as your dominant aspiration
You descend to the level of your lowest concept of yourself
Free your mind and your ass will follow

The infinite intelligence within you knows the answers
Its nature is to respond to your thoughts
Be careful of the thought-seeds you plant in the garden of your mind, for seeds grow after their kind

Every thought felt as true, or allowed to be accepted as true, by your conscious mind takes root in your subconscious, blossoms sooner or later into an act, and bears its own fruit
Good thoughts bring forth good fruit
Bullshit thoughts rot your meat
Think right and you can fly
The kingdom of heaven is within
Free your mind and your ass will follow

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