Malcom X Killer goes free....Should he be free or still in jail????!!!!! by Ronald Carthen

Do you know who Thomas Hagan is? He's the man who killed 39-year old Malcom X during a speech at New York's Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965. Hagan, now 69 years old, was paroled today.

Hagan was released on a few conditions. He was required to seek, obtain and maintain a job, support his children and abide by a curfew. He has been working at a fast-food restaurant for the past seven years.

Hagan had been in a full-time work-release program since March 1992. The program allowed him to live with his family in Brooklyn five days a week and stay in prison for two days. He was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for the assassination of Malcom X and in 1992 he gets to be semi-free? I find that very interesting. When you kill someone you go to jail for life that's all I'm saying.

Thomas Hagan and two other men were involved in the assassination of Malcom X for their anger towards Malcom leaving the Nation of Islam to orthodox Islam. He and the Nation called all whites "blue-eyed devils," but he later changed his views on whites which led to the Nation's anger.   

I know some African-Americans who supported Malcom from his amazing era are upset that this is happening today. I guarantee you there's someone asking the question "What if they had killed a great white leader?" I think he would have been in prison for life if he killed a white leader in that particular era. He would have no chance of getting parole and we all know that. I do believe in today's era, that this man would have been in prison for life if the leader was white or black.

I'm too young to remember the death of Malcom X but I'm very upset to see good people die for silly or no reasons at all. I'm very angry when our own black people kill one another, especially how much we preach on sticking together. I'm very disappointed that this men go free for killing one of our biggest black leaders ever.

This death should teach us that we should stick with one another and talk things out with differences with one another, instead of taking somebody away from this earth for having different beliefs.