Within the article “A Reassessment of the Relationship Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Vanderbilt University professor Lewis Baldwin (1989) underlines that despite the obvious dissimilarities regarding love and hate, separatism and integration, and especially violence and nonviolence, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King both played significant roles in the transformation of American ideology, society, and politics as they shared a complete devotion to the liberation of the oppressed (p. 103). As the most distinguished African-American leaders during the Civil Rights Movement, Baldwin (1989) emphasizes that Malcolm and King united in the fight to precipitate ethnic equality by persistently campaigning against racial segregation
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948). Regularly describing white folk as cunning murderous foxes that made remarkable efforts to depict themselves as good-intentioned, Malcolm was quite cynical in that he intensely believed that the moral consciousness of American was bankrupt as no matter how hard African-Americans exerted themselves to break free from their shackles, their attempts were frivolous as they were confined to a treadmill that perpetually ran but was taking them nowhere (Kang, 2012, p. 946). For Malcolm, the drastic terrorization, the fierce savagery, and the sadistic exterminations that innumerable African-Americans had experienced at the hands of white folk were in every respect unpardonable, and he asserted that it was preposterous to believe that white folk would ever consider African-Americans to be equal as they shamelessly regarded themselves as superior (Kang, 2012, p. 949). Accordingly, Malcolm – prior to his trip to Mecca – was dead set against African-Americans integrating with white folk under any circumstance as he was convinced that it was nothing more than a political sham that would never guarantee neither rights nor privileges to African-Americans (Kang, 2012, p. 938). On top of that, Malcolm saw nothing honourable about integration, and instead thought that it actually deceived African-Americans into thinking that they were making progress when in fact it only resulted in additional humiliation and brutishness (Kang, 2012, p. 949). With that being the case, Malcolm instead sought a complete separation from white folk in which African-Americans would form their own independent nation that had absolutely no affiliation with any white individual (Kang, 2012, p. 938). Rather than encourage racial coexistence, Malcolm supported a revolution and
948). Regularly describing white folk as cunning murderous foxes that made remarkable efforts to depict themselves as good-intentioned, Malcolm was quite cynical in that he intensely believed that the moral consciousness of American was bankrupt as no matter how hard African-Americans exerted themselves to break free from their shackles, their attempts were frivolous as they were confined to a treadmill that perpetually ran but was taking them nowhere (Kang, 2012, p. 946). For Malcolm, the drastic terrorization, the fierce savagery, and the sadistic exterminations that innumerable African-Americans had experienced at the hands of white folk were in every respect unpardonable, and he asserted that it was preposterous to believe that white folk would ever consider African-Americans to be equal as they shamelessly regarded themselves as superior (Kang, 2012, p. 949). Accordingly, Malcolm – prior to his trip to Mecca – was dead set against African-Americans integrating with white folk under any circumstance as he was convinced that it was nothing more than a political sham that would never guarantee neither rights nor privileges to African-Americans (Kang, 2012, p. 938). On top of that, Malcolm saw nothing honourable about integration, and instead thought that it actually deceived African-Americans into thinking that they were making progress when in fact it only resulted in additional humiliation and brutishness (Kang, 2012, p. 949). With that being the case, Malcolm instead sought a complete separation from white folk in which African-Americans would form their own independent nation that had absolutely no affiliation with any white individual (Kang, 2012, p. 938). Rather than encourage racial coexistence, Malcolm supported a revolution and