malcom x and martin luther kin

However, he realized that blacks in the North had voting rights, but were in even worse economic and social condition than southern blacks. King then realized that it was more than black equality that was holding blacks down. King then moved his focus to other arenas such as voicing his opinions against the Vietnam war, poor people's campaigns, and affirming black identity. Cone's thesis is that at the end of the two men's lives, contrary to public opinion, they had moved closer together in philosophies and were willing to do anything, even die to better the living conditions of black people in the United States. Popular opinion of Malcolm X and King is incorrect because they were about more than love and hate as can be seen through analyzing the roles that violence, gender, and class played in their lives.
             I agree with Cone's thesis because in my public school I learned nothing about Malcolm X. I remember asking my teacher about Malcolm in the eighth grade; I was told that he was a "racist and a monger of hate." King and X were the two largest driving forces behind the majority of the progress made in the Civil Rights Movement, however within the public school I realized that Malcolm X is not mentioned and that only Martin Luther King's legacy of nonviolence is celebrated.
             In school I did not learn about King's Campaigns, sit-ins, or being arrested. I remember learning King was a minister, a supposedly pure Christian, and won the great Nobel Peace Prize because he was willing to turn the other cheek. .
             After asking my peers at UC Berkeley, what they learned in public school about X, they only referred to hate and evil but never his love, his transformation, or the role he played in achieving black self-determination, giving black's hope, or empowering blacks. Not until eighth grade when my mother told me to read Malcolm X's autobiography did I learn who he was. My mother stressed learning about him to know my own black history.