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Malcom X


Malcolm X experiences from childhood to adolescents shows malice towards whites. During Malcolm X early years Malcolm experiences his father's preaching of Marcus Garvey. "The teaching of Marcus Garvey stressed becoming independent of the white man" (3). Malcolm enjoyed hearing his father preach but Malcolm X earliest vivid memory was on a night in 1929 when a local white group called the Black Legion set fire to his house because they felt his father was creating "dissention among "the good niggers" (3). Malcolm explains, .
             I remember being suddenly snatched awake into a frightening confusion of pistol shots and shouting and smoke and flames. My father had shouted and shot at the two white men who had set the fire and were running away. Our home was burning down around us. We were lunging and bumping and tumbling all over each other trying to escape I remember we were outside in our underwear, crying and yelling our heads off. The white police and firemen came and stood around watching as the house burned down to the ground (3).
             When Malcolm X was 5 years old he and his sibling attended an all white school. They were called such things as "nigger" and darkie" and "rastus" so much that they took it on as their second name (9). At Age 6 Malcolm's dad was dilled by brutal force. His head was crushed in on one side and his body severed almost in half. It was commented tat the white Black Legend had finally gotten his father.
             The psychological experiences that Malcolm X experienced while growing up was tragic. Malcom, at an early age had his family taken from him by " the white men." As a young child Malcolm X lost his father and a few years later the white society found it unsuitable for Malcolm X mom to raise him and his siblings. While growing up Malcom X was exposed to white torment and constant degradations. Malcolm X was made fun of and called names for being black. His family was driven out of towns and forced to conform to the white standards.


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