how will malcolm x make a remarkable contribution to our society?
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I thought he already did.\nWhat's your question?
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Two come to mind quickly.\n\nClara Barton- she did heroic work with her life, the heart of a lion that woman and she established the Red Cross.\n\nMartin Luther King Jr.- always admired him. I think he stands for every American's American Dream....one of a better life.\n\nThe idea is new so I  would go with a quarter on both.
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I imagine equal opportunities would play a big part so prepare for anything related to that, e.g how would you ensure people you deal with are treated equally and fairly? also try and include examples in the past of when you have tried to ensure equality regardless of race, religion sex etc....
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Are you crazy???!!  I think that your trying to imply that Black people haven't contributed to the world.  When in reality, every race has given to society. First of all it was Imhotep and other Africans that helped people to understand science, medicine, law, engineering, etc-- philosophers came to Africa and Asia to learn in the past- Not to Europe,  Also  black people built this country with free labor, and built up our economy from the start. Black people have giving many things as far as culture and art goes.  Most forms of music have roots in African culture... Black people created or Helped invent Hundreds maybe thousands of useful and popular things such as: the traffic light, guitar, gas burner,doorknob, peanut butter, fire extinguisher, roller coaster, Space Shuttle Retrieval Arm, Remote Controllers, the mop -- I mean there are thousands- too many to name.... Also there are many African man made structures in Egypt and the rest of Africa that many white people are fascinated with.-- Africans created the calendar in 10,000 B.C. -- The FIRST WORLD western university was the University of Jenne of Timbuktu--   AND that stuff is only a very very very small fraction of what black people gave society (not gave to white people),  plus Black people are constantly contributing to society today.....
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personally as long as there is hatred in the world between races, religions, ethnic groups, poverty, environmental break down, his dreams will never be met. a country like ours, meaning the U.S. i assume, is populated with millions of different groups of people, who all want other groups to meet their standards.  yes lack of education does contribute, but keep in mind that graduates of Hardvard, Yale, Princeton, all make up the KKK and Black Panthers and other hate groups, nature vs. nurture, not too sure that really has anything to do with it, but sure, it is possible, money, YESSSSS!  that has a lot to do with it, when i have a $400k house, 4-5 mercedes just in Miami alone and 3 little kids are starving, then yeah, there are going to be problems.  parents, yes, when a 2 year old can say the "N" word to a black person, they didn't hear it on TV, they most likely heard it in their very on household, and WE aren't helping because we contribute, black people don't like the whites and blame them for all the wrong doing and tend to live up to the negative sterotypes created, whites don't like blacks and same thing blame them for so much wrong, jews and muslims, Irish and English, same thing.  i don't think that it will ever be met fully, because of the many many differences and problems that the world as a whole face today.  \n\ni can witness to this because i am black and live in a town where just being darker than a white person will get you pulled over by the cops.  DWB's are the most popular citations in my city.  yes it has came a long way, but still has a long way to go.  yeah, black can vote, go to school, get jobs, etc... but will still be labled as gang bangers, drug dealers, and whores.  hispanics can go to school, buy houses, own business, etc...but will still be labled  as drug smugglers, illegal aliens (even when born in the U.S.), and yes whores.  \n\nThe U.S. is still headed by one race, that has not changed, and probably won't for a long long time.  \n\nMLK's dreams are a work in progress, but sure it will ever be achieved.  the only way they can, is if we all had the same skin color, height, weight, money, house, car, came from the same background, and lived the same life.
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I'll speak up for it!  Give me a man of ethics, who is truly a representative President, who understands the basic nature of our country and will fight for it as our Commander, who is better qualified than any other U.S.A. born citizen of any other group, race, religion, whatever, and I'll vote for them, and more.  If they are the first, I'll join their campaign, volunteer time, etc.\nHowever, as yet, I haven't seen one.  It seems that the African-American (I hate that term.  You're a U.S.A. citizen, you live in the U.S. of A., "America" covers two full continents, and I don't give a darn what country your ancestors come from and we should drop the whole ethnic thing, but that's a different question) seem to support people who keep harping on the African-American seperateness and people don't want an African-American President.  They want a President.  Period.  The few "African-Americans" who actually don't give a darn whether they are called "African-Americans" are usually called "Uncle Toms" or other names by the same people who seem to want the "African-American" population to stay isolated.\n\nI sometimes think the "White Slaveholders" of the south just changed their name and became the Democrats of today.  Keep the slaves dependant, keep them seperate, make a former Klansman (Mr. Byrd) a Senator, keep them hating success, The Man, school, etc.\n\nGoodness sake!  How will we ever get a black President if the people involved (that's all of us) don't speak up against such behavior!\n\nEvery U.S.A. Citizen should encourage love of school, business, success, becoming one people, immigrating from around the world (legally, please), free speech (even if it doesn't please you, like Cosby or talk radio, or Fox channel, or demonstrators (legal and law-abiding) against the war, or ANY poster in the Yahoo! Answers forum that follow the rules that the owners have asked us all to follow (their right, their soap-box).\n\nGet some for us, we're waiting.  I don't think we have long to wait, but a good way to check the waters is to see who calls Condi Rice names.\n\nYou'll see what I mean.  Someone doesn't want "African-Americans" in the White House, and it isn't President Bush (who put more minority groups in the major posts of his cabinet than any President before him.  President Clinton (whom I respect AS a President, regardless of personal problems), posted none to any major position in his cabinet.\n\nWatch the name-callers.  Those are the enemies.  Those are the ones who are seditiously trying to undermine our country and prevent us from getting a good President, regardless of the color of their skin, hair, eyes, or political party.\n\nThese are the people I speak up about.\n\nI hope you will, too.  Then we'll have a President, and I bet, soon after these people realize they DO NOT have a chance to undermine our country, that the President will all his ancestors from Africa and none from Europe.\n\nBut he won't be African-American.\n\nHe'll be one of us.
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Interesting question.  I think the answer is that he doesn't intend to "do" anything with them.  He has an exemplary record of hiring minorities and supporting useful programs for them.  The better question is what will minorities "do" to help themselves by bettering themselves, working hard to become educated and starting and running their own businesses in a fair way.
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Treat others with love and respect.\nStrive for justice and peace.
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I do. I think he should be an inspiration to everyone. He did a lot to help people. He chose to help people through non violence ways. He is something we should all strive to achieve to be like.......
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as a black man i would think that Malcolm x and mlk Jr. would be disappointed, due to point that the youth is a generation of the unknown, there is no solid hope or dream collectively in the black community for the future. would you feel confident that you can really on generation x and y? they would be proud that the," in your face bigotry..." has ended. but, how have we used that for positive reasons?  what have we done to rise the awareness and conscientiousness of the a nation? will they listen?\n\ni think and wish they would came back; to shame us and and to lead us again. we need that strong courage, and demeanor again.
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very important person
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it will affect our society by representing triumph. It will be a symbol, sign, and message to the citizens of this country and the entire world that the U.S. is rebuilding from a horrific event, 9/11. Definitely good thing.
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BIOGRAPHY\n\nMalcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother, Louise Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the family's eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Earl's civil rights activism prompted death threats from the white supremacist organization Black Legion, forcing the family to relocate twice before Malcolm's fourth birthday.
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I think that he was a very intelligent person caught up in a time when African Americans were unjustly subjected to harsh racism and lynchings, at the hands of the White populace. Segregation was the status quo, and he did what he thought was right in fighting against it. His actions were only a response to the harshness of the times during his life. He eventually realized that all men were brothers after his pilgrimage to Mecca, and moved closer to the philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr..
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Here is some information for you...\n\n \nBetty Shabazz\n(1936-1997)\nActivist, Nurse, Health services administrator, Educator\nWhen Betty Shabazz married the dynamic civil rights leader Malcolm X, she could not anticipate the extent of her husband's fame or the course that their lives would take. Shabazz was catapulted into the American consciousness and the media spotlight following her husband's assassination in 1965 by three members of the Nation of Islam. Formerly an esteemed leader of the Nation, Malcolm broke with the black nationalist organization in 1963, after revising his separatist ideals and embracing a new philosophy of global unity. His young widow, pregnant with twin daughters at the time of his murder, was left to raise themóand their four sistersóby herself. In the ensuing years, Shabazz avoided publicity when she could, opting instead to provide a quiet, normal home life and full education for her children.  \nBetty was an adopted child who grew up in a fairly sheltered, middle-class household in Detroit, Michigan. She went to the local Methodist church with her parents on Sundays, parties on some Saturday nights with church friends, and movies on Fridays. While attending Northern High School, she joined the Del Sprites, a sorority affiliate. After high school graduation, she attended Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and encountered her first racial hostilities, which she didn't understand, and her parents refused to acknowledge. "They thought [the problems] were my fault," she later wrote in an autobiographical portrait printed in Essence magazine. After two years in Alabama, she moved to New York City to attend nursing school at Brooklyn State Hospital.  \n\nWhile at school in New York, a friend invited her to hear Malcolm X speak at an Islamic temple. When this friend said she'd arrange for them to be introduced after his speech, Betty's initial reaction was "big deal," she related in Essence in 1992. "But then," she continued, "I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping it looked as though he was going someplace much more important than the podium.... Well, he got to the podiumóand I sat up straight. I was impressed with him." They were introduced later, and she became even more impressed. They talked about the racism she encountered in Alabama, and she began to understand its causes, pervasiveness, and effects. Soon, Betty was attending all of Malcolm's lectures. By the time she graduated from nursing school in 1958, she was a member of the Nation of Islam.  \n\nBetty Shabazz explained in Essence, "I never 'dated' Malcolm as we think of it because at the time single men and women in the Muslims did not 'fraternize' as they called it. Men and women always went out in groups." In addition, Malcolm was busy with a relentless schedule of speaking engagements for the Nation of Islam. Nevertheless, their connection grew strong. Soon after she finished nursing school, Malcolm, who was traveling the country at the time, called her from Detroit and proposed. Before the week was out, they were married.  \n\nThe marriage did not last as long as either had hoped. On February 21, 1965, while speaking at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, he was gunned down. Shabazz had brought their four daughters to hear him speak that day. As the first of the 16 bullets that tore into Malcolm's body rang out, she threw her children down and covered them with her own body. After the shots, Shabazz tried to get to Malcolm, but someone held her back. When she finally did reach him, he was dead, and she wondered if she would survive herself.  \n\nRecovering from Tragedy\nFor three weeks, Shabazz did not sleep. She kept seeing her husband's body fall. "I really don't know where I'd be today if I had not gone to Mecca to make Haj
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Don't forget Nelson Mandela.  It shows that the person takes the law seriously and respects authority, and at the same time wants to demonstrate an injustice in our society.  It forces people to question whether they think their laws are fair since innocent people are suffering.  There is an underlying assumption that people are basically good and your cause is fundamentally just.
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I would be honored. He is one of the greatest leaders we have ever seen.