... was placed with a white family who owned a private school for whites. Malcolm was treated like a house pet or a dog and was talked about like he wasn't there. Throughout his life he had categorized different parts with different names. For example as a child he was Malcom Little, as a young man he was referred to as Detroit Red. This is when he lived in the city ... and before he even had any sense of the man he was to ... become. Red had his hands into everything, he was the product of a poor black ghetto. He pushed dope, played the numbers, peddled ... ...

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