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| The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X |
June 13, 2017
Book 48 - The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley
Malcolm X (1965)
Part 5 - 220-270
Reading Time - 1 hour
Malcolm X (1965)
Part 5 - 220-270
Reading Time - 1 hour
Malcolm gets out of prison and quickly becomes more heavily involved with the Nation of Islam. He is a convert and he buys everything that the group says, particularly its leader - Elijah Muhammed. A lot of the stuff that he says is pretty provocative. Black man is the Original Man. White man raping black ancestors. Black people remind white people of their guilt. Malcolm is such a fervent believer that he quickly becomes an assistant minister and eventually goes out and helps establish temples in other cities. He speaks quite harshly about women - "True nature of man is to be strong, true nature of woman is to be weak". His views of women are very misogynistic.
It's hard to take a lot of what he says seriously. A lot of this section is adulation of the leader, Elijah Muhammed who, apparently, can do no wrong in Malcolm's eyes.
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