Malcolm X Essay -- Biography

Malcolm XThe history of the United States has in it much separation or segregation due to race. For a long time our country has seen racial discrimination as a large problem and this has caused ethnic groups to be looked mass upon or strained into a lifestyle of difficulties and suppression. Due to this, races, particularly African-Americans, have been forced to deal with unequal opportunity and poverty, leading to less honorable ways of getting by and also organizations that support change. Malcolm X is one strong compositors case of a colored man who fell into this type of hate and acted against it, uniting people to promote the advancement of colored people and change. At a untested age, Malcolm saw the ways in which blacks were seen as inferior, when his perplex supported an organization that promoted the return of blacks to Africa. Malcolm watched at a young age while the Klu Klux Klan burnt down his familys house, he also knew of his grandmother being raped by a white man , which caused his mothers light skin and his red hair. His father was killed when six white men beat him to death because they did not like what his father was doing in his organization. This was the early stage in like in which Malcolms hatred of white people begins. I believe that the high point of Malcolms hatred for white people comes when the welfare agency declares his mother amuck and institutionalizes her, causing his family to be split apart. Malcolm blames the welfare agency for splitting up his famil...