The discrepancy in treatment fuels prejudices within the black community, ultimately harming their desire and push for truly equal rights. ... Malcolm later comes to condemn this hairstyle and the symbolism it stands for in the black community, even claiming that the hairstyle shouts to everyone who looks at his head, Im ashamed to be a Negro [but] he [will] discover enough black self-pride to have that mess clipped off (Malcolm 144). ...

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