Malcom X

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"The black people in this country have been the victims of violence of the white man for 400 years..."

A stirring comment. He goes on to talk about how black people should be able to stand up for themselves, defend themselves.
His stance on M.L.K is that he is actually working for the white man, and actually teaching people to be weak.  Calling him a modern day "Uncle Tom"

The interview is a bit eerie, albeit in many cases true. The fact that Malcom X has become a lesser known figure in the civil rights movement is odd. His speaking is wonderful, he is articulate and interesting. Listening to it I feel his plight, his reasons are quite interesting

I spent a while after listening to the speech talking to my roommate about it, and most of us have some knowledge of him. But, as we spoke something clicked to me. He uses races in his speech, but if you simply take out the race (black and white) and replace them with terms such as "american" (in place of white) and replace black with islamic/muslim, anything like that, and you've got a modern speech that could be heard on the news today.

The speech itself was meant to bring forth his cause to people who have otherwise not known of it, and to turn people off of M.L.K's ideas, and onto his own path.


Overall, an interesting video. A charismatic speaker, and in todays world, with our current media, it is not unthinkable to look at what may have been. In todays world, with so many people willing to listen to someone who is well dressed, well educated and can speak well, his views may have reached a wider audience. In the 60's, much of the racial tensions were so tight that non-black muslims may have viewed malcolm X as radical, but today, he would have been seen as a different man.
Interesting to think about, check the video out, its pretty rad.