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Malcolm X's Cultivation Theory

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In 1964, Malcolm X stood before a crowd in New York City’s Audubon Ballroom where he once said, “This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. The media is the most powerful entity on earth, because they control the minds of the masses.” In depth, what Malcolm X means by this is that people will often listen to anything and everything the media says without hesitation. I believe that what he was trying to tell us is that you should not just listen to what the media says, but you should also do your own …show more content…

Stereotypes are preconceived assumptions based upon the characteristics and behaviors of all members of a particular group. These assumptions are often commonly held beliefs that are thought to be true by many people in the population (Power, Murphy, Coover, 1996). On August 9, 2014, an unarmed teenager, Michael brown was gunned down by a Caucasian police officer in Ferguson. Some of the media showed pictures of him smiling in his graduation cap and gown, but the majority of the media portrayed him as a “thug”. The picture which later became the focal point on every news outlet, called people to question if Michael Brown was so innocent as the people who knew him said he was. The picture in question was a picture of him in a red jersey throwing up what media called a gang sign, but was said to be a peace sign by his peers. How many times have we as young people taken questionable pictures or pictures that were of the latest trend… most if not all of us. But this simple picture that the news outlets used later became a picture that would determine how the whole world viewed him. Some experts said that the picture the media portrayed revealed a pattern of criminalizing black bodies in the U.S. media. Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color of Change, which is a group aimed to strengthening black Americans stated that, “criminalization

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In Brent Staple’s essay, Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space, he discusses how the black are stereotyped and not in a nice way. The whites’ believe black people are dangerous to their community, that the blacks commit wrong doings and create violence everywhere they go. The author goes through many struggles in his lifetime, for example, people thinking he is a mugger or even worse. Staples writes about his “first victim” to begin his essay, the victim is a white women who is so scared that he is behind her that she sprints off as far as she can. When people see Staples, they immediately assume that he is a bad man, when in reality he is a hardworking man earning everything he has.

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Malcolm X was a prominent African American civil rights leader and activist during the late 1900s. Prior to his role as a civil rights trailblazer, Malcolm X was an inarticulate hustler who was sentenced to ten years in prison on burglary charges. It was in prison that Malcolm X had acquired a taste for education and he could not stop yearning for more; as a result, he began to study tirelessly. Throughout “a Homemade Education”, Malcolm X appeals to one’s sense of ethics, logic, and emotion by utilizing his own personal experiences to stress that everyone should educate themselves and thus gather an understanding about the world. When in prison Malcolm X had attempted to emulate a man named Bimbi, a fellow prison mate whom he had looked up

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An internet article that was published in volume 62 of History Today (a website), in 2012, is written by Peter Ling. It is entitled “The Media Made Malcolm X.” It is immediately obvious from the title that the article is going to discuss the influence that the media had on Malcolm X’s life, as well as the legacy he has left behind – in other words, how media portrayal of Malcolm X influences our opinions and views of Malcolm X even today. The author discusses how and for what reasons the media “made” Malcolm X, by providing the reader with current views from

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By using his role to depict Emenike as a former criminal representative of all black men in the media, Sugerman commits a fixed and legalistic fallacy. This dynamic proves reminiscent of campaigns demonizing and criminalizing blacks during the reconstruction and post-reconstruction eras in Jim Crow South (Gilmore 2006:92). A legalistic fallacy assumes removing racism as a legal theory also removes it from practice (Desmond and Emirbayer 2009:343). Although Emenike has now been out of prison for some time, the systemic oppression and inherent racism towards black men, remains with him. This can be seen through Sugerman’s casual references to Emenike’s robberies when he was a juvenile as a “reign of terror” (CBS 2012).

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Malcolm X 's "A Homemade Education" uncovers a story of how he gained knowledge by himself and how it guided his thoughts and ideas in becoming a more knowledgeable speaker. Although Malcolm X is a very outspoken person about racism in the United States and throughout the world, he had the right to be upset but goes a little overboard on blaming whites. The main focus of "A Homemade Education" by Malcolm X is his endless attempt to increase his knowledge by teaching himself how to fully understand different words of the dictionary. Although he was inspired by a fellow inmate when he was in Charlestown Prison, Malcolm, young as he was back then, began reading intensely but couldn’t understand exactly what he was reading because of his writing and reading skills. Starting from being illiterate, Malcolm X used every resource he had to broaden his language abilities and be able to communicate to the world and his people.

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A Homemade Education by Malcolm X, is an informative essay about the author Malcolm X dedication to further his education by himself. In this essay the author talks about how he was envious, how he turned that into motivation, and how he didn't let the fact that being imprisoned would keep him from pursing his goals. The essay " A Homemade Education" was very meaningful. The most meaningful thing to me about this essay was the dedication behind the authors purpose to further his education.

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In “A Homemade Education,” Malcolm X expresses that reading and increasing your knowledge is extremely important and that it has helped him understand black history and slavery. Malcolm X was very frustrated with himself because he could not convey what he wanted to say when it came to writing simple English. Many people, who have heard Malcolm X on television or read something he wrote, would have thought that he had obtained an education “beyond the eight grade” (1). Malcolm X claims that this impression of him is a result of him studying during his prison sentence. It began when he met a man named Bimbi in the Charlestown Prison, where he felt as if he was far less knowledgeable than him.

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Some people would say that, “learning to read is easy”. That reading and writing and everything that has to do with the English language or any language isn't such a hard task to complete . Learning English isn’t always easy to accomplish and that there are people who have it even hard to achieve such a feat . I think learning your language is an essential part of your life. It opens doors too the next stage in your life above poverty.

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What motivated Malcolm X to educate himself was his own frustrations with not being able to write letters while he was in prison. Bimbi who could read made him want to actually want to read and actually understand what he could read also motivated him to want to educate himself. Malcolm X learned because of learning how to read want to learn about his self, his history. He was then curious about the history of the black man, “I took special pains to hunt in the library for books that would inform me on details about black history (3).” Once he learned of himself then I think he could begin to truly learn.

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Due to Malcolm X’s struggles in his early life, he dealt with an internal anger and resentment towards the white race, which lead to him rebelling and acting out. When Malcolm X was only 6 years old, criminals murdered his father and sparked an internal flame of hatred. His anger convinced him to commit various crimes such as stealing. This acted as a way to rebel against his family and the white community; he would not accept going unnoticed, nor would he accept others as they treated him as inferior. Not only did young Malcolm steal, but he also fought frequently with his family members.

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In his essay entitled Black Men and Public Space (1987), Brent Staples talks about how people will have a common misconception on the black community by thinking that they are all mugger ,rapist or thugs. Staples supports his claim by telling the reader events/ stories that occured to him and talks about how people will assume that he is a danger to society when in reality he isnt. The authors purpose is to inform the reader that his experiences of being stereotyped is to show the reader his point of view when it comes to these types of situations. Staples writes in a formal tone for an intelligent or free minded person.

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Public schools in many ways are comparable to prisons. However, internal motivation something that cannot be trained or taught. Signaled, in Malcolm's autobiography, a man with a limited education that achieved a high level of literacy and education all attained by his self-education. More importantly, because of his internal strong motivation to learn . Prison for Malcolm was like a blessing in disguise for him, inside prison Malcolm's world opened up, possibly the best years of his life were spent inside a prison cell Although, Malcolm's internal motivation and self empowerment both can be attributed to some of his peers in prison like Bimbi, still, the true internal motivational inspiration Malcolm possessed was an innate hunger for knowledge and a strong desire to express his thoughts in writing.

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The most important decision of a leader is the style of leading they decide to use when inspiring others, or providing a vision for the future. By looking at the past, it is proven that some leadership styles are guaranteed to be more effective than others. The leadership style of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X during the Civil Rights provides significant evidence of how different styles of leading can turn out to be a major success or defeat. Malcolm X’s leadership style included using violence to protest against violence and unequal rights, as well as supporting the segregation of African Americans and the whites. Martin Luther King’s style included nonviolent marches and protests against violence, and peacefully fighting for integrating

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What makes a leader? I believe a leader to be intelligent ,tough, and has the determination to achieve a goal. Having certain skills will have an impact on you being a trustable leader. Being selfless and caring are also characteristics. Malcolm X his birth name Malcolm Little is a fine a example of a leader and has most of these leadership qualities.

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