Malcom X

The correlation of childhood experiences, self-education, psychological influence and religious influence and the constant reinforcement of never being able to excel in the American society for blacks sparked in Malcolm X had a feeling of moral obligation to be a revolutionist for their fellow Afro- Americans. His life

When Malcolm X was 5 years old he and his sibling attended an all white school. They were called such things as “nigger” and darkie” and “rastus” so much that they took it on as their second name (9). At Age 6 Malcolm’s dad was dilled by brutal force. His head was crushed in on one side and his body severed almost in half. It was commented tat the white Black Legend had finally gotten his father.

Malcolm X was a revolutionist who made it, threw his actions, his goal to stop the oppression of Black people in America. Malcolm X was a very radical person for his time. He experienced and saw how the white society had brain washed blacks into being compliant. So, Malcolm X made it his goal to prove how the whites have used the black man to improve the standard for whites while at the same time suppressing blacks. Malcolm X wanted to segregate from the white man; Malcolm wanted to create a society for blacks that only helped blacks. Malcolm’s claims of the white man as being the “white devil” changed when he went on his hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. For the first time Malcolm X experiences that unity among blacks and whites could exist. During his hajj pilgrimage he saw “tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blonds to black-skinned Africans…all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that [his] his experiences in America had led [him] to believe never could exist between the white and the non-white” (340).

Malcolm X education, while considered not formal, is actually the best education one could possible get. His desire to educate himself showed that he was aware of the power of knowledge and that learning was the key for success. For Malcolm education was an eye opener to the world that he lived in. Education, also, made Malcolm more aware of the injustices afflicting blacks in America and made it possible to change the way things were by educating other Afro-Americans.

Malcolm X experienced how the role of Christianity has hindered the Black American. Malcolm X did more then preach that white Christianity was wrong, he proved it. While Malcolm was in prison he read the Bible he attended services and he would question everything. Malcolm X read book upon book which showed him how the “white man had brought upon the world’s black, brown, red, and yellow people every variety of the sufferings of exploitation” (176). Never did any white men approach “non-white people bearing the Cross in the true manner and spirit of Christ’s teaching- meek, humble, and Christ-like” (177). Malcolm X points out how the white conquerors claimed to be spreading Christianity throughout non-Christian countries, but in reality the white barbarians used Christianity to justify their conquest of all other non-white races. During this time Malcolm comes to the conclusion that “the white man is the devil” (210) and blacks have been brain washed to believe the whit

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