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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to be is an intelligent human being. ---Malcolm X

真的好謝謝Tomas傳Paula Cole的這首歌給我，走在路上聽著竟然不小心聽到 Malcolm X 在歌詞中！Malcolm X 是黑人公民民權運動的明星，認識他是在修一堂負擔沈重的社會運動理論中得知。吳老師那時候上課還放了丹卓.華盛頓演X傳記的，Spike Lee執導的「黑潮」給我們觀看。

不同於馬丁路德是在和平等世俗性的教義中尋求和解，X是以沈痛的、攻擊性的言詞掀起了在美國旋風般的黑人解放運動。他控訴著白人只是吸血鬼，靠剝削黑人穩固地位，他在獄中信仰了伊斯蘭，傳遞黑人的真主是阿拉而不是耶穌。Malcolm犀利的言詞及行動像是暴風般把黑人的心靈帶向解放的路上（到現在解放，當然還是ing…）那股黑人穆司林震撼了全美。然而，他不是所謂的恐怖主義者，甚至晚期Malcolm 從麥加朝聖回來，卻開始以一種更為寬闊的行動主義，訴諸黑人精神原鄉在非洲的道理繼續爭取平權，當時初出茅廬的拳王阿里便是他的追隨者。最後他卻為黑人運動組織中更為激進主張的鷹派不容，在一場演講中當眾射殺數十槍身亡（隔年馬丁路德亦被槍殺），引起風起雲湧的黑人解放甚至是左派運動! Malcolm X在台灣名氣不如馬丁路德為世人所知（拜高中英文課本之賜：P），卻是黑人解放運動甚至美國社會運動史上難以抹滅，令我尊敬的人物。 修習這堂課是跟小瞇還有主貓咪湯的賈不妙等同學一起努力的週四夜晚，聽到這首歌就想起那些日子，Paula的歌詞頗有深意，像是旅程開始前的一種自我整理，歌就在此給小瞇跟她的胖BB吧：P 衷心祝福他們八月起的新旅程，順利美好。 Amen by Paula Cole 

I'm siphoning gass from the high school bus
Into the tank of my beat-up bug
So I can drive away from the shouting and misery
I drive into the night, to the hill, to the water tower
To lie on my back and drink in the meteor shower
Knowing that many men have lain as i do now
Ptolemy,Copernicus,Carl Jung
Pondering his existence,pondering,
Is God with me now?

And I look to the sky
And I ask these questions
Yes,I feel something I don't understand
Can somebody say Amen?

My life is but a short and precious seed
Like three seasons of life in a leaf on a tree
And when I cascade to the ground I will not be done
I will mingle with the earth and give life
To the roots again

Can somebody say Amen?

And I look to the sky
And I ask these questions
Yes, I feel something I don't understand
Can somebody say Amen?
Amen for the drivers in their garbage trucks
Amen for our mothers,for the lust to fuck
Amen for the child with innocent eyes
Amen for Kevorkian and the right to die
Amen for NASA,The NSA
It's all a front anyway
Amen for Marilyn Manson,Saddam Hussein
Amen for America and the Milky Way.
Amen for Elvis,for Betty Page
Amen for Gloria Steinham and Ronald Reagan
Amen for O.J.,Clinton too
Amen for the Republican witch hunt coup
Amen for Gandhi,for Malcolm X
Amen for the uprising of the weaker sex
Amen for Babylon, the third world's call,
Amen for the unity of us all
Amen,Amen,Amen

And I am not unique.
We are all leave on this great big tree.
this tree that is life,that is God,that is you,that is me
And I lie under my tree like the Buddhas before and after me
And I ask the stars, "What for?"
Yes, I feel something I can't explain
A light that flickers off and on again
And I look to the sky
And I ask these questions
Yes, I feel something I don't understand
Oh,can somebody say Amen?