Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. are most likely the two best-known African-American leaders of the last century. Since their deaths in the 1960’s no one has replaced them. Both men were ministers and victims of assassination. They became famous about the same time. But they respected very different philosophies. King looked forward to the time when blacks and whites would sit down together at the table of brotherhood. Malcolm X was first interested in African-Americans gaining control of their own lives. They also differed on the use of violence to achieve their goals, and they differed on the roles of whites in the Civil Rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister in another hand Malcolm X rejected Christianity and became a Black Muslim, which I believe one of the reasons why white Americans were more in favor in Martin Luther King Jr.’s idea of philosophy. …show more content…
The white American, in other hands, sees Malcolm X as a complex and hypocritical figure, while the white American saw Martin Luther King Jr. as a genius and loving man.
It is gratifying to see media reporting news holds up the memory of Malcolm X on the day of remembrance of his untimely death at the age of 39. Most news by the media, however, is inaccurate in several important respects. The overall tone is seriously lacking in justice and evenhandedness. Most statements attributing violent wordiness to Malcolm X cites no example and fails to take into account the distinction between force and violence. Malcolm X is remembered by advocating self-defense mechanism, an utterly mainstream decimal point of view when taken by white