9/11: Chickens have come home to roost?

Malcolm was then an uncompromising Black Muslim. Later, he might have been refrained in his comments by his growing disillusionment with Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Muslim sect, and by his religious transformation after his pilgrimage to Mecca.
Malcolm was accused in the 60s of commenting out of turn and out of taste. 
Kennedy and the Democratic Party then, represented a summer of hope for a black population that was still struggling to transform the gains of the anti-segregationist movement of the 1950s into institutionally recognised working principles in the larger America of the 60s and 70s.

Then the 'radical' sections of black resistance against the ruling white, Anglo Saxon, Protestant establishment - including the Muslims, Black Panthers and the Republic of New Africa - were compelled as a matter of strategy, to cajole the slumbering black psyche into a new consciousness, a new self awareness that would outrightly reject white domination.