what were Malcolm X's racial beliefs and attiudes at the time of his death?
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Malcolm X has a change of beliefs shortly before his death.  During his trip to Mecca, Malcolm discovers that Whites and Blacks can live together. He then believes that he has been too narrow minded in the past and excepts whites.  he realizes that it is not the color of ones skin but their character that should determine if they are good or bad.  He dies alot more open to ides than most think.
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I hate it when white people try to make him out to be a crazy, radical black man...\n\nMalcolm had 3 distinct stages in his life.  in his younger years, he was a gangster, and thief and went to jail for it.  While in jail, he realized that he didn't like the way his life was going so he decided to change it.  He joined the Nation of Islam and became a prominent member.  He was pretty racist in this time of his life, being brainwashed by the NOI.  He eventually became suspicious of the Nation of Islam and disapproved of the lifestyle of its leader.  He took a trip to Africa, Egypt, Mecca, and the Middle East and learning that there were Muslims of all colors.  He came back a changed man.  I think that he was a progressive mind, more of a realist than a racist.  He was about getting blacks the rights that they deserved just like Martin Luther King, but Malcolm did it in a different way.  He did it in a more in-your-face, aggressive style as opposed to the passive style of King.
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The prevailing opinion is that after his trip to Mecca, Malcolm realized that his racially tinged rhetoric was counter to the teachings of Islam. He saw Muslims of all colors and creeds praying together so he began questioning his former positions. This didn't set too well with the Nation of Islam leadership...as a result, they had him murdered.  Not sure how much of that is factual, but it has been repeated quite a few times.
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It really depends on what point in his life you're focusing on.  Probably his most notable effort to change social conditions in the US was his editorship of The Crisis, the NAACP's journal.  In that journal, he published numerous articles and editorials against racism and segregation in America, particularly in American higher education.\n\nAlthough he was a strong supporter of HBCUs (because most white universities refused to integrate), he opposed the vocational model of education for African-Americans.  (Booker T. Washington, the founder of Tuskegee, was his opponent on this issue.)  DuBois believed that African-American students required not just job (agricultural and mechanical) training, but the opportunity to study the classical curriculum (the humanities, classical languages, the hard sciences and the social sciences).   DuBois thought that only by getting the same elite education as white Americans were afforded could African-Americans take their places as leaders in American capitalist society (doctors, lawyers, ministers, scholars, politicians, administrators, etc).\n\nLater, DuBois became disillusioned with the possibility of true racial progress in America, devoted himself to international issues of race, became a socialist, and moved to Ghana.
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What he did was embarass mankind by showing how unbelievably idiotic we can be in our thinking.  \n\nWe have been on this planet thousands of years.  Thousands of years.  We have technological prowess which is simply amazing.  We have compassion for our fellow man which is unrivaled in the "animal" kingdom, yet, here we are, "evolved", "intelligent", "compassionate", and morons all at the same time.  \n\nNot all thankfully, but, there are some who think simply because a person looks different then them, and there are less of them, that they are now "lower" then them.  It is the epitomy of short sighted and narrow minded.  \n\nBut, who looks more stupid, the whites pointing at the blacks and calling them "n**gers", or the blacks pointing at themselves and calling themselves the same thing.  \n\nIt is a shame the human mind cannot evolve upward at at equal rate.  We can think logically enough, and come together enough, to fly to another planet, land on it, and come back home safe, yet, our emotional mind just can't quite get a grasp on reality, so we will kill each other simply because we look different, or kill because of religious beliefs, and if we can't quite deal with it all, we will take our own invention; drugs, and numb ourselves, sometimes to death.  \n\nWe can be so damn smart, and so damn stupid all at the same time.  \n\nThank you to those who will put it on the line, and say it.  Thank you Martin Luther King.  It is just sad the message didn't reach everyone.
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HE WOULD NOT BE PLEASED. THE STRUGGLES HE AND SO MANY OTHERS WENT THROUGH FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS TO BE FREE AND HAVE EQUALITY WITHIN EVERYDAY SOCIETY AND CONDEMNING THE RACIAL STEREOTYPES. IF HE SAW THE CONTENT OF PROGRAMMING THAT IS DISPLAYED TODAY, HE WOULD PROBABLY BE HIGHLY DISAPPOINTED AND HE WOULD FEEL LIKE THE STRUGGLE WAS IN VAIN AND THERE IS MORE WORK TO DO. I ALSO FEEL THAT IF HE WAS ALIVE TODAY, ALOT OF WHAT WE SEE ON NETWORKS SUCH AS BET PROBABLY WOULD NOT BE SHOWN BECAUSE OF THE INFLUENCE HE HAD DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND THE STRUGGLE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS TO USE TELEVISION AS A POSITIVE MEDIUM AND A VOICE FOR ALL.
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Yes i do know him, but all to well. He was the one who came up with the idea of how to control blacks. This is what is meant by black following that old slave masters plan. People say that blacks should forget the past and move on. Black have move on, but they still follow his plan, by forgetting the past.\n\nHis plan was genius that the only reason they could control them for so long. His plan was to control them mentally, by cause them to enslave each other. If blacks knew this they would stop the habit that are hurting them. just because they know they are following the slave masters plan.
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He planned the murders, he used cult status brainwashing in an effort to overthrow the govrnment.  the plan was helter skelter, the idea was to blame the blacks and start a race riot which eventually would come to total distruction. the black race was to win, and then discover they weren't bright enough to run their new government, hence old charlie would come to their rescue and he would run the united states and eventually the world. so most people are just glad charlie is safely locked away. he's a manipulative mad dog, and extremely dangerous.
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i have, even though they were my anscestors, i still say, i am sorry that that happened.  My family is black, i am white. it is not a guilt that i neccesarily carry in my own heart, it is just a true and deep human desire for me to say to someone, i am sorry that someone hurt you.\na friend looses a loved one, we say were sorry even though its not our fault the loved one died.\nwhen a race that i happen to belong to dehumanizes another race, just because of skin color? the least i can do is say, im sorry; know that "I" take no pride in that, and know that i see how it has hurt and affected millions.\n\nto those who say, well it wasnt me? it might not have been you, but you would surely say something to a friend who is hurt; \nit places no blame on you directly, takes nothing away from your pride, and promotes human understanding, all in about 3 seconds.
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Well, Dred Scott was a black slave in the South.  When Dred Scott's master died, he went to the North, but was brought back to the South.  His claim was that he was the property of one man, who was dead.  The court ruled against him, however, saying that property was passed through the family, or something of that nature.  Basically, it was a debate over race, time spent in the North, and property...and Dred Scott lost, which angered the North
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Nope - at least, nothing that can be proven.  The allegations that he was part-black came from the belief that some of his features were more African-American than European-American, and it was used as an insult when he was playing.
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Crash the movie??\n\nIt's about racism and how no matter what you think even you are against someone.\n\nEveryone was racist against white, or black, or arabian, or anyone not american, or asian, whatever. Even people who thought they weren't automatically made assumptions about another race.
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Malcolm X was a radical who spewed hate and inequality, he was no different from the leaders of the KKK.
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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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search on the site of malcolm x
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Here is a couple said by Thurgood Marshall: 1. "A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi--born to the dumbest, poorest sharecropper--by merely drawing its first breath in the democracy has exactly the same right as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it's not a goal worth working for." 2.Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely. Martin Luther King: 1."Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." 2. "Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love."\n\n Rosa Parks: "I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people."
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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..