Was Malcolm X a violent person? And what is the limit on being aggressive? How peaceful should one be during times of injustice?
I love it when people say “He should have been more peaceful” and then later add “Though, I don’t know his entire story…”
This is my thought process…
If your family’s house was burned twice because of the color of their skin, if your father was killed by the KKK brutally, if you were discriminated against time and again, if you had a bomb go off in your house while your three daughters and your pregnant wife were sleeping in their beds, if you watched people of your background be treated like shit not because of anything they have done but because of the color of their skin…then you have every right to be upset.
I can only tell you that if I had lived back then, I wouldn’t have been sitting in my house waiting for everything to get better. I’d be trying to make it better.
But get this Malcolm X never killed innocent people. Yet time and time again his life and the life of his family was threatened. His wife, Betty Shabazz, once said in an interview that not a day goes by where she doesn’t get 6-7 death threats.
Why? Because he wanted equal rights and made others demand it as well. That’s dangerous. Ladies and gentlemen, the world doesn’t give a shit if you’re getting drunk as shit every night having sex with ten people at once, they care if you are reading a book and making speeches. Why? Because it is in wisdom and in making a difference that you become a dangerous person.
That is why reading is banned for some people, that is why certain books are banned in certain schools or countries. Wisdom is power. Once you know more, you can change things. You can start a fucking revolution.
Malcolm X wasn’t a bad person, he was a dangerous person. Why? Because he knew too much.
