Who Is Malcolm X Unjust

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The assassination of Malcolm X was unjust because he was a civil rights leader, and increased the popularity of the Nation of Islam (NOI), however some people thought he stood for violence. Malcolm X was born May 19, 1925. His dad died when he was about six, and his mother was announced insane and was checked into a mental hospital. He was thrown in jail when he was 21. During this time he decided to read and reflect on his life. It was also during this time when he was introduced to the Nation of Islam. After he got out he got really involved with the NOI and the civil rights movement. Malcolm X was very educated, a fantastic public speaker, and a stronger leader. However, some people had some negative thoughts about him. They thought he was …show more content…

He joined the Nation of Islam, and became active in his community. As time went on, he became aware of the racial battle that African Americans were going through and decided to do something about it. H e gave speeches about his opinion on race. He believed in the Nation’s, NOI, Teaching’s that black people are the original people of the world, that the demise of the white race is imminent, that white people are devils, and that blacks are superior to whites. He believed that instead of coming together, black and white should be separate and truly equal. He believed that black people should form their own country separate from america. He didn’t approve of the Civil Rights movement. According to Malcolm X, A Biography, “ Malcolm called Martin Luther King, Jr., a ‘chump’ for advocating integration and insisted that “an integrated cup of coffee was insufficient pay for 400 years of slave labor.’ Malcolm rejected the vision of brotherhood in King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech during the 1963 March on Washington as a nightmare. At times straying from NOI’s doctrine, Malcolm called for a global ‘black revolution’”(Phillips 9). Most people were threatened by his thought, but people in the NOI saw him as a fantastic …show more content…

However some people thought he stood for violence and fighting. That was, and will forever be, false. Malcolm X didn’t stand for violence. He simply stood for standing up for himself. He believed that if someone hit you, you now have the right to hit them back. According to Malcolm X : Rights Activist and Nation of Islam Leader “It soon became clear “by any means necessary,” was the central theme of his speech: ‘We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. . . . We don’t think that we should have to sit around and wait for some segregationist congressmen and senators and a president from Texas in Washington, DC to make up their minds that our people are due some new degree of civil rights’” (Robinson 13). Malcolm was a very peaceful and humble person. Only as long as u didn’t offend him in anyway. Malcolm didn’t stand for violence he. He stood for equality and

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