How Did Malcolm's Views Change And Evolve

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How did Malcolm’s own personal views change and evolve? Malcolm X’s personal views changed over time because of certain things that other races did and didn’t do, to the point of him wanting complete separation from them. Malcolm used to want to be involved with whites a lot to try and get closer to their population, but during that time after he went to prison, he learned some things that changed the way he thought. Some of the things he learned were primarily due to the dictionary and the things that it said about the words that had black in them. Every time the word black was brought up, it was always defined as criminal and slave. After Malcolm learned these specific details, he started preaching black empowerment and social injustice. …show more content…

We cannot think of uniting with others until after we have first united among ourselves." This means that we can’t come together with white people until blacks come together in one part of the world and build our own things so we have something we own for ourselves. We can’t think of coming together with others first, we must unite among our own race. Now this is something that I would have to agree to disagree with only because, if we were to completely segregate ourselves from other races then it would be even harder to come together as a human species later down the line. As a result of us segregating, life wouldn’t be the same if out of nowhere people just randomly tried to come together and change a key factor of how the world was established, it wouldn’t work. Elijah Muhammad was born on October 7, 1897, in Sandersville, Georgia. Elijah didn’t get a chance to experience school much, ending in the 4th grade, to go to work with his family. He was a religious leader who led Islam from 1934 to 1975, the year of his death. Elijah Muhammad became a leader of the Nation of Islam by becoming a leader and gaining the trust of the …show more content…

Elijah Muhammad promoted racial separation, saying that “black people and white people should live separately to have their own freedom, equality, and justice. Elijah Muhammad's ideas influenced Malcolm X in many ways, some so important that Malcolm fully adopted and embraced them. Elijah influenced Malcolm on racial separation and black nationalism by preaching the ideas that he believed in, and after his passing, Malcolm embraced his ideology and promoted the ideas of black separation and black nationalism. Wallace Fard was the Leader of the Nation of Islam. Fard was born on February 26, 1877, but something that's still uncertain is his background and where his original birthplace is. Fard came to Detroit and started teaching a reported 25,000 people Islamic religion. Some of the most obvious influential things Fard accomplished was the founding of the Nation of Islam. Also, his teachings were also very influential because of his status and because learning from another dark skin toned human can encourage others. This has to do with his legacy, in particular because of his leadership in