Chania Whitaker
Review Article
Fall 2015
AAAS Literature 204
Black Muslims and White Devils: A Critique of New York Time’s Coverage of Malcolm X’s separatist Movement.
Integration is a slow moving process in America, and looking at the obvious separation of groups today proves how slow that process is. Groups of people are still being pushed to the margins of society, depending on their class, race, religion and other contributing factors. When integration started to be introduced into American society, it was poorly done. Looking at how the “Little Rock Nine” was introduced into Central High, the NAACP picked only the smartest black children from an overcrowded all black high school and placed them into a hostile environment. The students …show more content…
Here Malcolm X claims that the struggle for integration would “end in bloodshed because he was certain the white man would never concede full integration” (Haley xi). It’s important to note that Malcolm believed that separation from the white race is the only solution for black people to gain their own sense of self and to have a flourishing community, due to the internalized white supremacy that everyone is affected by. However, when the New York Times covered Malcolm X’s separatism movement, it paints a different …show more content…
“ The white man is the greatest teacher of hate that ever walked the earth (Janson 5).”
“How can you get the white people to move out “ he asked and answered, “ how did they get the Indians out? (Janson 5).”
By choosing quotes that attack whites and instead of quotes that include Malcolm’s reasoning for separation, Janson makes it seem that the reason why Malcolm X wants separation is simply because he hates white people. Malcolm X explicitly states that the only way for the black community to become united is to separate themselves from their oppressors. By only covering Malcolm’s view of white people, Janson makes it seem like it’s the center of Malcolm’s argument. When in reality Malcolm X pushed for black unity.
Malcolm X, at the time, was considered very radical. Consequently when covering Malcolm X, writers might have felt like they would need to pick a side. So writing unbiased would be hard just because of how passionately Malcolm X deliveries his beliefs. Even the choice to use “passionately” vs. “aggressively” says something about my own beliefs and feelings towards Malcolm. However, this makes it somewhat easier to critique the writer, but also harder in some ways. Analyzing what the writer leaves out and puts in requires you to have a full understanding of the issue. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi said it best; there are many dangers of only telling one story. Telling one story only allows
Review Article
Fall 2015
AAAS Literature 204
Black Muslims and White Devils: A Critique of New York Time’s Coverage of Malcolm X’s separatist Movement.
Integration is a slow moving process in America, and looking at the obvious separation of groups today proves how slow that process is. Groups of people are still being pushed to the margins of society, depending on their class, race, religion and other contributing factors. When integration started to be introduced into American society, it was poorly done. Looking at how the “Little Rock Nine” was introduced into Central High, the NAACP picked only the smartest black children from an overcrowded all black high school and placed them into a hostile environment. The students …show more content…
Here Malcolm X claims that the struggle for integration would “end in bloodshed because he was certain the white man would never concede full integration” (Haley xi). It’s important to note that Malcolm believed that separation from the white race is the only solution for black people to gain their own sense of self and to have a flourishing community, due to the internalized white supremacy that everyone is affected by. However, when the New York Times covered Malcolm X’s separatism movement, it paints a different …show more content…
“ The white man is the greatest teacher of hate that ever walked the earth (Janson 5).”
“How can you get the white people to move out “ he asked and answered, “ how did they get the Indians out? (Janson 5).”
By choosing quotes that attack whites and instead of quotes that include Malcolm’s reasoning for separation, Janson makes it seem that the reason why Malcolm X wants separation is simply because he hates white people. Malcolm X explicitly states that the only way for the black community to become united is to separate themselves from their oppressors. By only covering Malcolm’s view of white people, Janson makes it seem like it’s the center of Malcolm’s argument. When in reality Malcolm X pushed for black unity.
Malcolm X, at the time, was considered very radical. Consequently when covering Malcolm X, writers might have felt like they would need to pick a side. So writing unbiased would be hard just because of how passionately Malcolm X deliveries his beliefs. Even the choice to use “passionately” vs. “aggressively” says something about my own beliefs and feelings towards Malcolm. However, this makes it somewhat easier to critique the writer, but also harder in some ways. Analyzing what the writer leaves out and puts in requires you to have a full understanding of the issue. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi said it best; there are many dangers of only telling one story. Telling one story only allows