Racial discrimination/tensions is a real and papal principal. Its role in humanities development and history is as commonly seen as the humans in it. Humans inherently notice difference in just about anything. With our increased intelligence we take these differences and deem what they mean in relation world around us. In reality a specific example such as the plight of blacks against whites. History shows us a periods in which blacks were enslaved and degraded. They achieved freedom but continued to live a sub-human life. Culture and society developed in a way in which the norm crushed these people of non-white skin color both physically and mentally. All because we notice difference. This is a world that Malcom X and Sayyid Qutb lived to
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A man, who witnessed racial injustice from a young age. He notes in his autobiography, several instances of racial bigotry. His house raided late at night by the KKK, his family is torn from one another by white welfare workers, and feels so degraded in school he refers to himself as a “pink poodle” (Haley Ch 2). Similarly, Sayyid visits the US for two years. He returns to his homeland in Egypt and proceeds to writes and publishes a dissertation (“The America that I Have Seen”) on the abhorred state of the US. “His account of American culture focused on what he saw as the devastating erosion by capitalist individualism…” (Mandaville 98). Which directly stimulates acts of oppression and racism Sayyid witnessed. The pressures enforced on these two required them to adopt ways of coping or at least begin to change the current conditions of this reality. Malcom on one hand fell in to the depths of this racial system. He became addicted to drugs, gambled, hustled and committed crimes. All these circumstances he blamed on the “white devils” of his nation. He fights an internal battle that perceives this attack and his situation as personal. He then finds peace the same way Sayyid does in the religion of Islam. He converts in a prison under the Nation of Islam just as Sayyid joins the Muslim Brotherhood. Groups both set on spreading Islam in very similar way. Each declaring in a sense a “jihad” but with that of Sayyid’s being motivated as need for Islam to spread. Malcom reflects a need to fight in his speech “The Ballot or the Bullet” in a more aggressive manner for protection of rights. Sayyid in which both preaching and force are ”…principles that are of equal importance in the application of the method of this religion” (Mandaville
A man, who witnessed racial injustice from a young age. He notes in his autobiography, several instances of racial bigotry. His house raided late at night by the KKK, his family is torn from one another by white welfare workers, and feels so degraded in school he refers to himself as a “pink poodle” (Haley Ch 2). Similarly, Sayyid visits the US for two years. He returns to his homeland in Egypt and proceeds to writes and publishes a dissertation (“The America that I Have Seen”) on the abhorred state of the US. “His account of American culture focused on what he saw as the devastating erosion by capitalist individualism…” (Mandaville 98). Which directly stimulates acts of oppression and racism Sayyid witnessed. The pressures enforced on these two required them to adopt ways of coping or at least begin to change the current conditions of this reality. Malcom on one hand fell in to the depths of this racial system. He became addicted to drugs, gambled, hustled and committed crimes. All these circumstances he blamed on the “white devils” of his nation. He fights an internal battle that perceives this attack and his situation as personal. He then finds peace the same way Sayyid does in the religion of Islam. He converts in a prison under the Nation of Islam just as Sayyid joins the Muslim Brotherhood. Groups both set on spreading Islam in very similar way. Each declaring in a sense a “jihad” but with that of Sayyid’s being motivated as need for Islam to spread. Malcom reflects a need to fight in his speech “The Ballot or the Bullet” in a more aggressive manner for protection of rights. Sayyid in which both preaching and force are ”…principles that are of equal importance in the application of the method of this religion” (Mandaville