How Revolutionary Was Malcolm X The Revolutionary?

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Malcolm X the Revolutionary
Have you ever been discriminated against? Well Malcolm x was, and to the tenth power, but he fought through it. Growing up in segregated America Malcolm x was very outspoken which most of the time got him in trouble. Being a witty conversationalist made him popular but being persuasive and adamant in his slightly criminal ways mad him a revolutionary.
Your probably wondering where Malcolm x got his personality. Well it’s all in how he was raised. His mother was African American and white and his father was African American. His father and family was harassed by the kuku and black legion. This made his hate for whites grow. Later his father was killed by the KKK and his mother admitted to a psych ward. This left Malcolm

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