European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Boo Shaley might be rooted up another racial message by Juan Williams the Washington Post the week before he died feb. 10, Alex Haley sent me a letter. He had just come off one of his writing trips taken on an Ocean freighter to ensure the privacy that allowed him to focus on his writing. He had seen an article of mine and had encouraging words about writing and without explicitly saying so the importance of writing about race in America. The letter picked up on conversations wed had on two airline flights we took together almost a year ago. He told me he was at work on a Book about his Hometown Henning tenn., and All the characters and history that made the town so wonderfully evocative for storytelling. He talked too about sitting in a Small apartment in Harlem drinking loads of Coffee with Malcolm x for two nigh Long interviews that became the basis of the autobiography of Malcolm a now required Reading in High schools and colleges across America. Haley saw Malcolm x As a confused emotionally tortured Man in life and a Man whose life is misunderstood by Young people who see him As an advocate of violence. What Haley really wanted to talk about was what he called his last Book. He had started research on his White ancestors. I done to recall the exact details of which members of his family were White in past generations. But Haleys Point Sticks in my mind. He touched the Coffee with milk Brown skin on the Back of his left hand and said there were few Black americans who did no to have Whites in their family background. And there were Many Whites he said who not Only had Black ancestors but who if they took the time to dig in the local archives would Iii s i is l l i is Womer let Prim Alex Haley was planning a Book when he died. Find that they had living Black relatives. Some of them might be Light skinned Blacks passing for White he said. Others might be dark skinned people never publicly associated with a White family but acknowledged in secret whispers Between grandparents As the father Mother or sibling of relatives treated As Whites in race conscious America. Haleys idea was that this next Book would take America beyond roots by breaking Down what he called the artificial lines of race lines that too Many conclude Are Walls. To Haley the Walls were illusions that had grown into reality in the american mind. He never did Tell me the name of his planned Book but he clearly saw it As the final message to emerge from his lifetime of listening to stories and collecting secrets. 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