Excellent look into a Revolutionists life, or to walk in another man’s shoes as they say. Malcolm X does a wonderful job in explaining what it’s like growing up as a black boy in thirties, and the atrocities he witnessed such as a lynch mob chasing him and his family out of town while the fire department and cops burnt down their house, even later on killing his father. How racism made his mother’s mind snap due to institutional racism from the government. Your heart breaks when he tells you his white teacher laughed at him when he said he wanted to be a lawyer when he grows up.

After hearing his upbringing, learning he became a Harlem criminal wasn’t surprising, nor was it surprising he had a blind rage fueled hatred of Whites… why wouldn’t he? Learning how Islam saved him touched me, to learn how far down in the depths of hell he was, to be pulled out by religion makes one like me who is not religious think in a deep manner.

By the end of the book, due to his experience at Mecca, I was glad to see True Islam showed him that all races could live together as brothers and sisters. That he took that experience and educated people that it is Racism, not the white man that is the enemy of the African Americans, and that painting all whites with the same brush is JUST as bad as painting all African Americans with the same brush.

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