Malcolm X Deserved the American Term Paper

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Another angle into Malcolm's view of white America is presented in an article in the journal Phylon, in which the authors assert that after visiting Mecca in 1964 (according to Charles E. Wilson), "...He became less and less doctrinairely antagonistic toward whites..." Malcolm is reported to have said, that morning in Mecca "...was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men'." Meanwhile, the Reverend Albert Cleage later said that it was "a myth" to believe that Malcolm had changed the way he felt towards whites; and C. Eric Lincoln, who wrote the book the Black Muslims in America, said that those who saw "a new Malcolm X" after he returned from Mecca "were at best probably premature in their judgments." "Until the day of his death he remained an opponent of what is generally.
..understood...as 'integration'," said George Breitman, a friend and confidante of Malcolm who was quoted in the Phylon article.

But even though there continues to be controversy over whether or not Malcolm X softened his hatred towards Caucasians, Malcolm did write a seemingly conciliatory letter from Mecca ("The Oneness of Man"), which was quoted by Nancy Clasby in the Journal of Black Studies. "We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the 'white' from their minds, the 'white' from their behavior, and the 'white' from their attitude."

All the controversy and confusion surrounding the thoughts and actions of Malcolm X during the last years of his life notwithstanding, there was (and is) nothing proven about him that would prevent him from being honored by the U.S. postage stamp.

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