Good Vs. Evil: Martin Luther King And Malcolm X
Since the dawn of time, there has always existed the concept of good vs evil. Normally, this concept is used to explain two forces battling against each other in order to influence people’s actions. However, these concepts also exist on a realistic level; although the realistic form is based on race rather than morals. Like a recessive gene, black people were suppressed by the dominant gene, white people, in the 1950’s. Because the oppression was a colossal dilemma and a difficult problem to solve, few people chose to solve it. However, some were brave enough to fight against this evil. Among them were Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. While King wanted to solve the problem with peace, Malcolm knew the only way to solve the dispute was fighting
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When Malcom attended school. he was asked what he wanted to be. He replied that he wished to be a lawyer, but the teacher said, considering his race, to think realistically. This incident was the turning point of Malcom’s life and influenced his future actions. From that point forward Malcolm felt like the class pet rather than a student. Feeling this way, he dropped out of school and moved to Boston to like with his sister. Although when Malcolm moved to Boston, he was arrested due to theft, and was forced to take a light sentence. While in prison, he joined the Nation of Islam and devoured books in order to make up for the education he lost out on. When he left prison, Malcolm had brewed a strong hatred for the white race and their oppressing powers. Subsequently, when Malcolm X decided that the hour of liberation had arrived for his oppressed brothers, he was determined to show them how deceitful, rotten, and disrespectful the white race …show more content…
Malcolm believed that the true religion was Islam and his brother had been put in the dark because they had accepted the white man’s version of truth: Christianity. In the Bible, the world began with God’s creation of Heaven and Earth. Although this is a truth that Malcolm believe, it’s about the only thing he believed true about the God of the Bible. He found it odd that the beginning of the Bible doesn’t speak of a religion. Thus he concluded that God couldn’t have left his people without a religion and this religion was Islam. His ideologies came about because of his analysis of past events. He found that because the Christ was to be born at a much later time in history, and with Christ being the root word in Christianity, Christianity couldn’t have been the religion that God gave his people. Meaning, according to Malcolm in the speech “The History Of The Black man, “[it is] for this reason, Almighty God Allah, the God of our forefathers, has raised The Honorable Elijah Muhammad from the midst of our downtrodden people here in America” (Malcolm). Recognizing this, Malcom was inspired to liberate his brothers of whom the white man, “[had] made spiritually blind depriving [them] of the light of truth.” (Malcolm) The way his brothers were deprived of the truth was by having the white idea of Christianity pumped into their system like drugs. Malcolm said, “American enslavers have
When Malcom attended school. he was asked what he wanted to be. He replied that he wished to be a lawyer, but the teacher said, considering his race, to think realistically. This incident was the turning point of Malcom’s life and influenced his future actions. From that point forward Malcolm felt like the class pet rather than a student. Feeling this way, he dropped out of school and moved to Boston to like with his sister. Although when Malcolm moved to Boston, he was arrested due to theft, and was forced to take a light sentence. While in prison, he joined the Nation of Islam and devoured books in order to make up for the education he lost out on. When he left prison, Malcolm had brewed a strong hatred for the white race and their oppressing powers. Subsequently, when Malcolm X decided that the hour of liberation had arrived for his oppressed brothers, he was determined to show them how deceitful, rotten, and disrespectful the white race …show more content…
Malcolm believed that the true religion was Islam and his brother had been put in the dark because they had accepted the white man’s version of truth: Christianity. In the Bible, the world began with God’s creation of Heaven and Earth. Although this is a truth that Malcolm believe, it’s about the only thing he believed true about the God of the Bible. He found it odd that the beginning of the Bible doesn’t speak of a religion. Thus he concluded that God couldn’t have left his people without a religion and this religion was Islam. His ideologies came about because of his analysis of past events. He found that because the Christ was to be born at a much later time in history, and with Christ being the root word in Christianity, Christianity couldn’t have been the religion that God gave his people. Meaning, according to Malcolm in the speech “The History Of The Black man, “[it is] for this reason, Almighty God Allah, the God of our forefathers, has raised The Honorable Elijah Muhammad from the midst of our downtrodden people here in America” (Malcolm). Recognizing this, Malcom was inspired to liberate his brothers of whom the white man, “[had] made spiritually blind depriving [them] of the light of truth.” (Malcolm) The way his brothers were deprived of the truth was by having the white idea of Christianity pumped into their system like drugs. Malcolm said, “American enslavers have