Analysis Of Malcom X

Malcom X’s outlook on race goes through many stages of change throughout his life. As a child, Malcom X was immediately categorized as black and poor, therefore being a lower class citizen and creating a lack of exposure and diversity of ideologies. As he grows up and meets new people he is introduced to different lifestyles and for once has an opportunity to choose what kind of life he is going to lead. This creates a young man who does not his own identity and is soul searching. Ideas are introduced to him slowly. Everybody he meets has something new and exciting to offer to him.

Malcom X was born on the very light skinned. His family liked this quality bout him, as stated in chapter one. This belief that lighter skin is better was not a

He later gets arrested and gets betrayed by white girls, further making his view of whites a negative one. While in jail, Malcom’s sister introduced him to a version of Islam intended for blacks. This new belief intrigued him and gave him a faith and something to believe in. He believed this to be true, because it gives him something to believe in that allows him to understand why white people are as brutal as they are. In this version of Islam, Elijah Muhammad explains that the “white race was created by an evil scientist named Yakub.” And that “the blacks who came with Yakub to the island were placed under a system of laws by which mating was based on skin color and in which only lighter-complexioned babies were allowed to survive.” This idea now put the ball in Malcom’s field and gave him reason to believe that his race was superior.

When Malcom gets out of jail he starts preaching Elijah’s teachings and becomes an influential figure to black people who are looking for answers. Malcom was preaching reversed racism. Unlike his beliefs as a child, that light skin was better, now he believed that black people were better and put in a world with a “devil race.” He is now not only a religious figure, but a civil rights leader as well. He preaches through the deprecation of other races to make himself and his followers feel better about themselves and their

He goes through many changes and each change has a different outlook on race and class structure. He starts off with a racist view that whites are better, than a reverse racist view that blacks are better and then finds the balance and thinks that all races are equal and decides to leave his religion out of his teaching. No matter what people say about his racism and his credibility, he has been on both sides of the spectrum concerning race and ended right where he needed to be. With no racism and the belief that everybody should live together in