The Role Of Violence In Malcolm X's Speech

He began reading his grandfather’s books as well as study Black Panther materials that is own by his father. He dislike the Civil Rights Movement in their school annually. Coates believes that the schools and streets were the same and that he should not give value to people whose values society is scorned. For him, it did not matter whether the intentions of Americans who did not think they were racist nor the intentions of educators, but, the violence of those people of the Movement whom fought and against the violence in the phrase “Yeah, nigger, what’s up now?” (34) are connected in some way. In the early 1990s, Coates found Malcolm X and extremely admired him. He always listen to Malcolm X speeches specially when Malcolm X said “you should preserve your body because it was …show more content…
He contrasts about on what he began to understand with what he knew before. All heroes were white, serious history was white and because of this he wanted to create a new language for himself, he wanted a new story, and a new history and the Dream of the “black race.” (page 45). He also, read Chancellor Williams’s Destruction of Black Civilization when he got to Howard where he learned how the Portuguese was resisted by Queen Nzinga when she was refused a seat by the Europeans and when she had an adviser make a seat with his body for her.He always go to the library and checking out all the books that he could read. He studied everything and thought of his own investigations and reveal “history to be a unified narrative, free of debate, which, once uncovered, would simply verify everything I had always suspected” (page 47). Sadly,His ancestors fought and disagreed just as often as they agreed, if not more even though, he quickly saw his heroes debate, create factions, and fight amongst themselves. Later on, he realize that his personal freedom was not based in