Malcolm X

Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X varied a lot in their approaches. Martin Luther King Jr. wanted the races to work together to find peace. He was all about being passive. He was never violent. He went about his movements by marches, sit ins, and other peaceful approaches. Malcolm X is more radical. The piece we read started out when he was in jail, where he learned how to read. He became Muslim and started to believe in the religion strongly. He focuses on being against the white man and the way they treated the blacks. He was strongly against the white man, even calling him the devil. He was pretty much saying that the white man’s only purpose is to keep the black population down. Malcolm X didn’t believe that the whites and the blacks could coexist peacefully.
One thing that I found very interesting, and I somewhat agreed with was when Malcolm X talked about how before they tried to gain civil rights, they needed to achieve human rights. If people treated African Americans as humans, civil rights wouldn’t even be an issue. If people didn’t look down on other people and thought they didn’t even deserve to be treated like a human because they were different, everyone would treat each other better. Malcolm X wanted to be equal to the white man, but he didn’t want them to be together. MLK Jr. wanted everyone to live in peaceful harmony.