TIL Malcolm X avoided military service after being declared “mentally disqualified” because he told draft board officials that he wanted to “steal us some guns, and kill us [some] crackers.”

http://macmccanntx.com/2013/04/09/transforming-the-world-the-transformations-of-malcolm-x/



Submitted February 20, 2015 at 09:35PM by HDThoreauFTW http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2wk3k4/til_malcolm_x_avoided_military_service_after/