Compare And Contrast Malcolm X And An Open Love Letter

Malcolm X vs An Open Love Letter Human rights activists, such as Malcolm X believed that “The only way to stop a forest fire from burning down your house is to ignite a fire that you control and use it against the fire that is burning out of control” (Spellman, 12). Here, Malcolm was being interviewed by A.B. Spellman and was explaining about the organization he was planning to use for people of color. Malcolm brought out the discrimination against people of color and how nonviolence may no longer be an option. Malcolm also speaks of a revolution being like a forest fire burning everything in its way. Thus, focusing on using a fire one owns against the fire that is without control. Speaking in terms, of embracing and using what one is and has to go against the current. While, Mia McKenzie emphasized in An Open Love Letter To Folks of Color that one should be proud of who they are regardless of what other people may think or do (McKenzie, 105). Both thinkers have a reasonable say in their statements, however, they cannot stand alone. Each of these thinkers can widen their scope of the situation by combining their …show more content…
In An Open Love Letter To Folks of Color which was published in April 2012, McKenzie speaks from her own experience and past history towards what black folks have imparted towards society and her admiration towards their choices (McKenzie, 103). She also makes a claim that the hatred between white individuals and people of color still remains. McKenzie speaks nearly five decades after Malcolm X’s interview, in which there are a number of differences from 1960’s till now. Such differences are; Jim Crow Laws that are not seen anymore as well as McCarthyism. Schools are not as segregated as they used to be in the 1900’s and education is open to anyone. Public Facilities are now also Co-ed and even our current U.S. President is one of