If you click here, you can see "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech I talked about in my last blog post.
This speech is really long. Tl;dr: the main point Malcolm X is trying to make is that the black man needs to rise up and fight for suffrage. If the African American community doesn't fight for civil liberty, then their struggle for equality will quickly turn into a violent affair.
X is a lot different from King, both in his writing and in his message. King has more of a peaceful-protest approach (which white people responded okay to), while X was sort of a bit more direct with his words (which scared white people and elicited much more negative reactions than King received). X was assassinated in 1965.
It's really interesting how people could be working towards a common goal yet find extremely different ways to achieve the same solution. However, I feel like X was trying to get more than equality. Did Mr. Stewart say something about X wanting black power?
ReplyDeleteThe contrast between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X is certainly striking, though they both wanted better for African-Americans. Malcolm X did support Black Power, and wanted to end racism by "any means necessary." He also wanted to bring equality to an international stage, and get the attention of other countries. This provides a good biography of his life:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.biography.com/people/malcolm-x-9396195#awesm=~oF4Dh7Pi2GLpZW