Editing Malcolm X (section)

=== Reactions ===
Reactions to Malcolm&nbsp;X's assassination were varied. In a telegram to [[Betty Shabazz]], [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] expressed his sadness at "the shocking and tragic assassination of your husband."<ref name="stan">{{cite web |title=Telegram from Martin Luther King Jr. to Betty al-Shabazz |url=http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/telegram_from_martin_luther_king_jr_to_betty_al_shabazz/ |last=King |first=Martin Luther Jr. |author-link=Martin Luther King Jr. |date=February 26, 1965 |publisher=The Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201130347/http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/telegram_from_martin_luther_king_jr_to_betty_al_shabazz/ |archive-date=February 1, 2016 |access-date=May 28, 2018}}</ref> He said:<ref name="stan" />

<blockquote>While we did not always see eye to eye on methods to solve the race problem, I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems that we face as a race.</blockquote>

[[Elijah Muhammad]] told the annual [[Saviours' Day|Savior's Day]] convention on February{{nbsp}}26 that "Malcolm&nbsp;X got just what he preached," but denied any involvement with the murder.<ref>{{harvnb|Evanzz|1992|p=301}}.</ref> "We didn't want to kill Malcolm and didn't try to kill him," Muhammad said, adding "We know such ignorant, foolish teachings would bring him to his own end."<ref>{{harvnb|Clegg III|1997|p=232}}.</ref>

Writer [[James Baldwin]], who had been a friend of Malcolm&nbsp;X's, was in London when he heard the news of the assassination. He responded with indignation towards the reporters interviewing him, shouting, "You did it! It is because of you—the men that created this White supremacy—that this man is dead. You are not guilty, but you did it.... Your mills, your cities, your rape of a continent started all this."<ref>{{harvnb|DeCaro|1996|p=285}}.</ref>

The ''[[New York Post]]'' wrote that "even his sharpest critics recognized his brilliance{{mdashb}}often wild, unpredictable and eccentric, but nevertheless possessing promise that must now remain unrealized."<ref>{{harvnb|Rickford|2003|p=247}}.</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote that Malcolm&nbsp;X was "an extraordinary and twisted man" who "turn[ed] many true gifts to evil purpose" and that his life was "strangely and pitifully wasted."<ref name="Times65-02-22">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/02/22/archives/malcolm-x.html |title=Malcolm&nbsp;X |access-date=June 19, 2018 |date=February 22, 1965 |page=20 |newspaper=The New York Times |url-access=limited |archive-date=June 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622174557/https://www.nytimes.com/1965/02/22/archives/malcolm-x.html |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' called him "an unashamed [[demagogue]]" whose "[[creed]] was violence."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,839291,00.html |title=Death and Transfiguration |date=March 5, 1965 |magazine=Time |access-date=October 2, 2014 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=January 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108005320/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,839291,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Outside the US, particularly in Africa, the press was sympathetic.<ref name="Rickford248">{{harvnb|Rickford|2003|p=248}}.</ref> The ''[[Daily Times of Nigeria]]'' wrote that Malcolm&nbsp;X would "have a place in the palace of martyrs."<ref name="Evanzz305">{{harvnb|Evanzz|1992|p=305}}.</ref> The ''[[Ghanaian Times]]'' likened him to [[John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown]], [[Medgar Evers]], and [[Patrice Lumumba]], and counted him among "a host of Africans and Americans who were martyred in freedom's cause."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/02/26/archives/malcolm-called-a-martyr-abroad-rowan-asserts-murder-was.html |title=Malcolm Called a Martyr Abroad |access-date=June 19, 2018 |last=Kenworthy |first=E. W. |date=February 26, 1965 |page=15 |newspaper=The New York Times |url-access=limited |archive-date=January 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108005717/https://www.nytimes.com/1965/02/26/archives/malcolm-called-a-martyr-abroad-rowan-asserts-murder-was.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="AmNews">{{cite web |url=http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2024/New%20York%20NY%20Amsterdam%20News/New%20York%20NY%20Amsterdam%20News%201965/New%20York%20NY%20Amsterdam%20News%201965%2000214_1.pdf |title=How World Saw Malcolm&nbsp;X's Death |date=March 13, 1965 |work=[[New York Amsterdam News]] |access-date=January 15, 2018 |archive-date=August 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807201635/https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2024/New%20York%20NY%20Amsterdam%20News/New%20York%20NY%20Amsterdam%20News%201965/New%20York%20NY%20Amsterdam%20News%201965%2000214_1.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

In China the ''[[People's Daily]]'' described Malcolm&nbsp;X as a martyr killed by "ruling circles and racists" in the United States; his assassination, the paper wrote, demonstrated that "in dealing with imperialist oppressors, violence must be met with violence."<ref name="AmNews" /> The ''[[Guangming Daily]]'', also published in Beijing, stated that "Malcolm was murdered because he fought for freedom and equal rights."<ref>{{harvnb|Evanzz|1992|p=306}}.</ref> In Cuba, ''El Mundo'' described the assassination as "another racist crime to eradicate by violence the struggle against discrimination."<ref name="Rickford248" />

In a weekly column he wrote for the ''[[New York Amsterdam News]]'', King reflected on Malcolm&nbsp;X and his assassination:<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nightmare of Violence |url=http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2024/New%20York%20NY%20Amsterdam%20News/New%20York%20NY%20Amsterdam%20News%201965/New%20York%20NY%20Amsterdam%20News%201965%2000216_1.pdf |last=King |first=Martin Luther Jr. |date=March 13, 1965 |work=New York Amsterdam News |access-date=January 15, 2018 |archive-date=November 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107175716/https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2024/New%20York%20NY%20Amsterdam%20News/New%20York%20NY%20Amsterdam%20News%201965/New%20York%20NY%20Amsterdam%20News%201965%2000216_1.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

<blockquote> Malcolm&nbsp;X came to the fore as a public figure partially as a result of a TV documentary entitled, ''The Hate that Hate Produced''. That title points to the nature of Malcolm's life and death.

Malcolm&nbsp;X was clearly a product of the hate and violence invested in the Negro's blighted existence in this nation....

In his youth there was no hope, no preaching, teaching or movements of non-violence....

It is a testimony to Malcolm's personal depth and integrity that he could not become an underworld Czar, but turned again and again to religion for meaning and destiny. Malcolm was still turning and growing at the time of his brutal and meaningless assassination.…

Like the murder of Lumumba, the murder of Malcolm&nbsp;X deprives the world of a potentially great leader. I could not agree with either of these men, but I could see in them a capacity for leadership which I could respect, and which was just beginning to mature in judgment and statesmanship.</blockquote>