William Faulkner's The Autobiography Of Malcolm X

There have been numerous black leaders such as MLK, James Baldwin, and others in American history including Malcolm X. Throughout Malcolm's life, his views on racial issues and discrimination against people of color, especially African Americans in the U.S change. His parents and peers had a lot to do with who he became in his final years and formed the person and leader everybody looks up to. Malcolm X is famous for his separatist and counter-racist method. More specifically he believed strongly against white people and wanted to fight back. ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X’ presents the evolution of his life. The recurring key theme in the book, ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X’, is Malcolm's changing perspective on racism.
The novel begins

People believed it was the end of Malcolm, but this is when his greatest change occurred. During his imprisonment, Malcolm changed his perspective and changed his mentality, “it was then that I began to change—inside. I drew away from white people” (2.78). Having a lot of time to reflect on himself and the discrimination issues he has seen, he spent most of his time reading books and learning about the American history. This opened his eyes about discrimination throughout history and helped him understand the root problem for black people and what they are still facing. “For the next years, I was the nearest thing to a hermit in the Norfolk Prison Colony. I never have been more busy in my life. I still marvel at how swiftly my previous life's thinking pattern slid away from me, like snow off a roof. It is as though someone else I knew of had lived by hustling and crime. I would be startled to catch myself thinking in a remote way of my earlier self as another person” (11.10). Concluding

“In America, "white man" meant specific attitudes and actions toward the black man, and toward all other non-white men. But in the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That morning was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about "white" men” (17.76). This trip really opened his eyes and looked at discrimination broder throughout the whole world. He even visited other countries to meet leaders like himself for their views on the subject. He immediately thought change and to start a movement. “I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda….I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m human being first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” He thinks that change is necessary and everybody deserves to be equal, black and white and all color should work together in achieving this goal. “I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time.”(p.140 ) At the end of his trip he became more mature about racism