support supported malcolm x. i like to call roger the may mayor and movie critic. as most will attest are lone twisted figures. roger from the begin ining saw s job almost akin to being a politician or ambassador saying, i m no different from you. let s think through this together. he also project ed an anti-elit even though he was lucid. and former doctoral student at the university of chicago. he wanted to bring you in, bring as many people in as he could, even with difficult material. that was one of the things i valued about him as a hip-hop critic even though he was just as curious and serious as so-called low art and high art and bring down arbitrary distinctions that often carry a lot of race baggage, class