Malcolm X spoke against making Celebrities and Athletes your leaders

In 1963, the political leader Malcolm X had an interview at the University of California, Berkeley where he spoke on Black celebrities not being the voice of political movements. The rhetoric in the interview can most certainly be applied today over 58 years later. “Show me in the white community where a singer is a white leader or a dancer or a trumpet player is a white leader,” Malcolm X said. “These aren’t leaders.” Malcolm X added that Black celebrities are often puppets for an agenda contradictory to the emancipation of Black people.