Throughout his life, Malcolm X has experienced many life changing events that changed who he would become, a ghetto hustler to the leader of a nation. Each of these events served to drastically change Malcolm’s views on life, Racial Identity, and the ideas of Separation vs Integration of races. In his younger days, Malcolm had a very negative view on all white people, thinking that blacks and whites should remain separate for each other’s sake. However, as events in his life unfolded, he begins to give white people his respect and learns that they can contribute to the African American movements in America, believing integration between the races is possible.
One of Malcolm’s early life changing events was when he moved from Boston to Harlem …show more content…
After Mr. Muhammad’s influence, Malcolm X comes to believe that black and white society should separate completely and form their own independent, functional nations. Malcolm throws away all possibility of having ties with white people, and even goes so far as to generalize all white people as “devils” and believes that they cannot be sympathetic to the needs of the black man in America. Many of these newfound views are completely due to Mr. Muhammad’s influence on Malcolm, especially during his time in prison, where he had built himself as a new man based on the teachings of Elijah …show more content…
After this pilgrimage, Malcolm once again finds himself a changed person, now completely separated from the Nation of Islam, but still a devout Muslim. Malcolm has, at this point, thrown away the racial classifications he once put on races as a whole, and judges everyone as their own person, for their personality and not for the color of their skin. He believes that all people are equals regardless of race, regardless of being a white, black, yellow, or red skinned person. Rather than believing the black race was above other races as taught by the Nation of Islam, he has taken on the view of being humbled, knowing that he is only one person on the earth full of billions of people, and to be so well-known around the world despite
One of Malcolm’s early life changing events was when he moved from Boston to Harlem …show more content…
After Mr. Muhammad’s influence, Malcolm X comes to believe that black and white society should separate completely and form their own independent, functional nations. Malcolm throws away all possibility of having ties with white people, and even goes so far as to generalize all white people as “devils” and believes that they cannot be sympathetic to the needs of the black man in America. Many of these newfound views are completely due to Mr. Muhammad’s influence on Malcolm, especially during his time in prison, where he had built himself as a new man based on the teachings of Elijah …show more content…
After this pilgrimage, Malcolm once again finds himself a changed person, now completely separated from the Nation of Islam, but still a devout Muslim. Malcolm has, at this point, thrown away the racial classifications he once put on races as a whole, and judges everyone as their own person, for their personality and not for the color of their skin. He believes that all people are equals regardless of race, regardless of being a white, black, yellow, or red skinned person. Rather than believing the black race was above other races as taught by the Nation of Islam, he has taken on the view of being humbled, knowing that he is only one person on the earth full of billions of people, and to be so well-known around the world despite