Malcom X Essay

When someone hears the term racism in America the thought that comes to mind is the racial conflict between black and white. From the moment the first boat with an origin from Africa docked at a U.S. port and let of the first slave this horrible conflict began. White Americans sold, traded, and imprisoned slaves and made them work sun up to past sun down seven days per week doing grueling physical labor. By making the slaves be slaves the white people were showing the blacks no respect and with each order taken the salves held more contempt for their so called owners. That is the basic gist of how black vs. white racism began in this country and we all know exactly just how bad it became and that it has still not disappeared to this day. Racism was a large part of the life of civil rights leader Malcolm X and also for people of black towns in Oklahoma. With racism being the most hideous civil rights injustice known to date in America, here is a look at how these African American’s view these acts of hate that were not only acted against them individually but their entire heritage and why they may or may not be opposed to having white people involved in their

My opinion of this is that this is that his idea is the total wrong way of thinking and that no nation can exist as one nation if it has to large separated groups of its society.

Malcolm X differs from the author of “Having Their Say” Scott Malcomson in this case because Malcolm X would have never allowed for any talk racial integration to even be included in something he wrote. Unfortunately we were not provided with Malcomson’s view on this subject but he must have had an strong opinion on it since he concentrated on it so heavily in his writing. The other thing stated in the book “Having Their Say” that had in impact on the issue being discussed is that the old woman that opposed having whites in Boley did say she receives medical care including feeding and bathing assistance from white medical care workers and that they are nice, caring, helpful and very good people. This lets on that this woman is somewhat softened to whites and does have some sort of affection toward them. This point makes this woman different in a way from Malcolm X because he would never have said something nice about a white person because his hatred towards them for what they have done to him, his family and his people is such a deep hatred. This demonstrates that racism can heal with time for others and not for some. Another point of difference is that Malcolm X still seemed to have a wish for revenge against white people. He wanted to punish whites for their sins. The people of Boley seem to not have a problem with white people and they seem to almost talk respectfully of them. Boley residents just simply don’t want to live amongst white people and that I would not classify as hatred but as fear. These were the two significant differences of opinion between the two sides that really stood out but there are many areas where these two sides are on the same ground.

As Malcolm continued to grow up he experienced many deaths of both good friends and family members all at the hands of white people and this fueled Malcolm’s fire to change things. This seems to be the root of most blacks utter hatred of whites. In so many books by black authors they talk about the deaths of family by whites and this is why they will never forgive white people. Malcolm went to college and then began his career as a civil rights activist and from that moment forward he pushed blacks to revolt and disobey the will of the whites. Mr. X was quoted on many occasions saying that he hated white people and this is why he did not want blacks and whites to coexist in society. He wanted blacks to rise up and become the dominant race in American society. Malcolm X never in his life suggested that blacks and whites should ever try and get along and he truly believed that living together is only going to make the wounds of blacks get cut deeper and remain more permanent.

These authors simply, with the help of the people of Boley make it very clear that race is not a black and white issue, it is muc

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