Реферат: Martin Luther King Jr. Vs Malcolm X

He was a smart student and skipped two grades before entering an ivy

league college at only the age of 15. He was the class valedictorian

with an A average. King paraded his graduation present in a new green

Chevrolet before his fellow graduates. He was raised in the perfect

environment where dreams and love were generated. King and X’s

childhoods are “a study in polarity.” (pg. 254, Reflecting Black)

Whereas, Malcolm X was raised in nightmarish conditions.

King’s home was almost dream-like. He was raised in a comfortable

middle-class home where strong values natured his sense of self-worth.

Sure, many have admired Malcolm X and Martin Luther King for

the way that they preached. “Both King and Malcolm X promoted

self-knowledge and respect for one’s history and culture as the basis

for unity.” (pg. 253, Reflecting Black.) Other than the fact that

they were similar in some ways, they also had many differences that

people admired, both in belief and speech.

Malcolm X, in many ways, was known to many as an extremist.

For most of the time that he spent as an Islamic minister, he preached

about separatism between blacks and whites. He also preached about

black nationalism, and as some would call it, “black supremacy,”

(reporter from Malcolm X movie).

Malcolm X had been misled all through his life. This can be

shown especially at the time when he broke away from the black Muslim

party, because he realised that they were misleading him by telling

him that separatism between blacks and whites is the only way to go.

They also misled him by telling him that separatism is a part of the

Islamic religion. Malcolm X’s life was known to many as a nightmare

because he was abused and haunted by both blacks and whites. Malcolm

X blamed many of the conditions that blacks in the United States lived

in on the whites. He also talked about how the white man still sees