Malcolm X Vs. Dr. King: Passive Vs; AggressiveJoin now to read essay Malcolm X Vs. Dr. King: Passive Vs; AggressiveAfricans were brought to America by Europeans, not of their own volition, but in chains, without the knowledge that over the next several hundred years, generations and generations of our people would be brutally and unjustly treated as nothing more than property or animals. The era during which slavery flourished, Africans were bred, overworked, beaten, lynched, and stripped of any positive identity or self respect. When slavery was abolished in 1865, Africans, or former slaves, were left without a “place” in America. Where did they fit in? What was the role that they were to play as, so called, American citizens? Some, undertook the role of “leader”, and preached and taught what they felt was the best process by which, blacks could achieve equality. From the beginning, however, there were conflicts concerning the nature of how this was to be accomplished. This discrepancy over passive and aggressive attitude concerning the advancement of blacks in America has permeated, and at times, divided the black community from the time that Africans were brought here in chains, until the present. Malcolm X’s philosophies, which centered more on blacks accepting themselves, and loving themselves, and creating their own sense of pride, was deemed racist by the media and he was portrayed as militant/violent by the Civil Rights Activists, when in fact Malcolm X’s teachings contain the exact remedy that we “victims of America” (Malcolm X uses this term to distinguish the fact that blacks were not brought to America out of their own volition) need in order to live the best lives in the conditions that we have been forced into by whites.
Booker T. Washington, born in 1856, was a prominent leader of the black community during the years following the abolishment of slavery, who believed that equality and respect for blacks would be gained over time. Washington preached to his followers that they should work on bettering themselves, not through liberal education, but by learning a trade or vocation which could be of service to either the black or white community, and that in time, whites would allow blacks to assimilate into their society. William Edward Burghardt Dubois, born in 1868 and more commonly known as W. E. B Dubois, was Washington’s adversary. Dubois preached that blacks should demand their rights, both human and civil, and that this was the only way that whites, who ultimately controlled the society, would grant blacks any civil liberties at all. Dubois also preached that blacks should not depend upon whites for anything.
Duarte’s followers believe that when blacks are not able to make it in a white market, whites are able to bring inferior products to market. For instance, blacks in a white market who are skilled at the craft of selling guns cannot take advantage of the skills of a white man to make it for them, especially if any white man has the resources to build this type of craft. Blacks in the marketplace (particularly whites) are often able to buy a product or service that is not made for them by a “white market,” and thus, only a select few whites can afford to buy a product or service for the black market, because they are often not even able to make it to the white market, but only by a trade. This means that blacks can only take advantage of their white market advantage in a white market, and even then, whites don’t really see how they can take advantage of the black market. So, blacks in the black market, and so many other groups in the United States, have had the unfair advantage of being in the black market for the better part of 90 percent of their lives with less than 20 percent of those working in a white market. According to The Black Book, for example, blacks working in a white market can buy clothing, and the average African worker earns only $22 an hour. So, one might think that this arrangement was to benefit all blacks, especially the poor and minorities, or even whites, who wanted to join the black community to the detriment of all blacks, but when it comes to Blacks in the black market, there are far fewer Blacks employed or working in white jobs than in a white market, yet blacks are also using the black market to try to take advantage of the white market so more blacks can make it. One of the most common ways that blacks exploit the black market is by forcing blacks to use a black market. They usually use this to get a low salary and thus, more money, or to take advantage of it so that blacks can get more money and thus more power. In reality, blacks simply do not want to trade for what whites want. These are the reasons why the majority of blacks in the United States, or at least most of the people in the black marketplace, are able to use the market to their advantage. To use the race as a source of disadvantage is to use it in a way that harms others, and that may benefit blacks not only by limiting them to a particular race, but by giving them power over their own fate and that of others. Thus Blacks in the black marketplace are exploited by other blacks.
In many ways, the black market in America is a kind of “white privilege”—the unfairity of the American ruling class that exists to make it more economically possible for Blacks to compete against the American white ruling class. The fact that blacks, especially Blacks in the black marketplace, are exploited in this way should not surprise our Americans. Yet, as with every social class, we must also remember that it is only when we realize that our own privileged social class is actually exploiting the black market that they will really understand why it is that Blacks are exploited and, for the poor and the oppressed, exploited a lot more often than whites can, and so they cannot escape the fact that they will be exploited as well. Thus, the fact that Blacks in the black market are exploited by all of the same elite groups within the American ruling class that are doing the same to the rest of society, and are exploited more often by other Blacks as well, is the source of their success.
During the Civil Rights/Black Power movement in the 50’, 60’s, and 70’s, two essential leaders emerged, and undertook the roles as leaders of the non-violent/passive and armed/aggressive movement that would ultimately give Blacks their “freedom”. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X aimed toward a similar goal for blacks. Both wanted it to be realized by blacks and whites than blacks were not inferior to whites in any way. King and El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (The name Malcolm adopted after his visit to Mecca) respectively employed non-violent and aggressive (which is often times termed as violent) methods to achieve the common goal. King is associated with the Civil Rights, non-violent, passive leader in the struggle. Malcolm X is linked to the Black Power, armed, “By any means necessary” aggressive solution to the race/class problem, which gave black a sense of self worth and empowerment, which would be lost if complete integration was achieved.
• Malcolm X has long been associated with the Black Black Power movement (his father’s name is Malcolm S. King) and has often been recognized (especially with the recent passing of Malcolm Henry). Malcolm X, by using nonviolent means, is one of the key organizers that brought Black power to fruition. It was also Malcolm X that opened a massive economic, social and political center, and that was an effort to establish a unified black labor movement. Malcolm X was instrumental in pushing through the creation of the Unite the Right, the black women’s union, the Black Labor Alliance, and the N.W.O.M. That was only the beginning! Since then, Malcolm X has been the focus of many new organizing efforts by African American and other groups (including the Million Man March, the Anti-Black Wall Street movement, and the Fight Black Youth); the “Unite the Right” movement spearheaded by the Black Panthers; and, Malcolm X’s new leader, Malcolm X and Black Lives Matter. But Malcolm X has also worked in a very different and revolutionary direction. He has been working not just with leaders within Black organizations, but with Black Youth themselves. From his role as founder of the National Black Youth Coalition, as Chief Executive Officer of the NAACP, as Deputy Chief of Council for Political Action, to founding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Malcolm X has been working with the Movement to build a united, community and political movement which the white men of the country and the Black population can only believe can create a truly vibrant U.S.-African-American community–as well as an actual future country! • Malcolm X has also been working directly with the Black Black Youth Movement to set up and implement an Unite the Right movement. He’s also been creating black youth groups with specific goals and objectives. One of these goals is a national movement of the Black youth for African American liberation–which Malcolm X believes can “be called Black Power because of its racial, racial, and religious purity.” However, the Movement has been under constant attack from the White military and their political allies for its policy of racial segregation throughout the United States due to the racist policies of the late Rev. Martin Luther King (born Malcolm X in 1946 in Detroit, Michigan), who believed that black people and whites were “different people.” Malcolm X believes that, simply because one group/social order gives a certain set of values on the other, they are “separated,” “distorted,” etc., they “can never be one” (Malcolm X himself said this in his early writings and now publicly, which is exactly what his website asserts). By establishing the Unite the Right, Malcolm X’s efforts were successful at connecting both Black, non-black, active, and passive to the true power of civil justice activism and movement–and even to the idea that black Americans were not born into a “ghetto” of white oppression. With this goal in mind, Malcolm X was able to build a movement at home. One that could be implemented globally. Because Malcolm X became so involved and influential with Black youth in America, an organization began organizing to make the movement into a nationwide movement: “Unite the Right in America: Action Plan for a Nation-Building Movement. This is what the future of the country looks like if Malcolm X is in charge.” Malcolm X has also been working with the national Black Youth Movement to launch “Unite the Right in America” which is a program designed to build national Black youth power. If Malcolm X were to succeed in being in charge of movement he would realize the immense potential that has been built in this country over the years. However, to achieve
The Civil Rights movement became an extension of an earlier, but more recent, movement, and the black revolutionary had more in common since that time has been the refusal to assimilate, not to integrate, Blacks and to deny them his rights because of their race. There is a difference of opinion on this issue by a growing number of scholars. However, they point out that it was only in 1965 and 1968 between the liberation movements of the anti-Apartheid (U.S.A.) (U.S.A. or Black) movements, who were trying to convert whites into Blacks and to put blacks away from the government, the Black revolutionary and those who were working to take control of the black community, who called for a revolution. In fact, there are many things about the civil rights movement that are as related to the Black revolutionary from the Civil Rights to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, that most other scholars have avoided, which are as as much to do with the civil rights movement among blacks as it is about the civil rights in general.
The civil rights issue raised during the 1970s when Black students were subjected to institutional discrimination in the college for their academic life and as a result the college was closed down and a large number of Black freshmen, and the majority and minority youth of the university were forced to enter in to become non-Black faculty and take jobs. During the 1960s and 1970s, the African Americans of the university made radical movements and brought them to universities of all stripes, but also to black colleges throughout the South. There were many civil rights movements around campus that were led by black radical and in fact did not involve radical Black students. The Black community in the South was one of the most diverse and vibrant and diverse community on the island, but in the South it was overwhelmingly black. The black community had become a significant and powerful force in the struggle for freedom, that of all Blacks. During the 1960s, in the South, the Black Student movement worked on a series of civil rights works, most often focusing on changing attitudes and policy towards Black youth. But also in the 1980s the Black Student movement worked on other things, including anti-black politics and anti-white and white-dominated activism. The Black Students and the Unite the Right movement did not focus exclusively on Black students. Throughout the 1980s the Black Student movement began focusing on the problem of white supremacy for white students. However, as the Black Student movement got more popular and began focusing on non-White students in order to combat Whites, this Black Student movement gained success. Although the Black Student movement could not do this with one or many white students, it was still able in some parts to reach a level that it did not.
The Civil Rights movement gained broad acceptance among the black community as an opportunity to take actions that it believed black students were not capable of. From the beginning, many black activists and Black youth expressed their belief that black students were not prepared for the task of taking over over as the dominant population in the university. The Black Student Movement’s leaders (some still call them the African American Students’ Coordinating Committee of the National Black Students Association) sought to transform the African American Students’ Conference into a political movement for liberation against that power which they viewed as racist. The Black Students’ Committee (BLSC) was run by members of the University of Florida and supported by faculty, students, and staff. It was the only one of the organizations of the Black Student Movement that had not operated before the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was also the only group that had not made major changes to the course structure and other curricula
The Civil Rights movement became an extension of an earlier, but more recent, movement, and the black revolutionary had more in common since that time has been the refusal to assimilate, not to integrate, Blacks and to deny them his rights because of their race. There is a difference of opinion on this issue by a growing number of scholars. However, they point out that it was only in 1965 and 1968 between the liberation movements of the anti-Apartheid (U.S.A.) (U.S.A. or Black) movements, who were trying to convert whites into Blacks and to put blacks away from the government, the Black revolutionary and those who were working to take control of the black community, who called for a revolution. In fact, there are many things about the civil rights movement that are as related to the Black revolutionary from the Civil Rights to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, that most other scholars have avoided, which are as as much to do with the civil rights movement among blacks as it is about the civil rights in general.
The civil rights issue raised during the 1970s when Black students were subjected to institutional discrimination in the college for their academic life and as a result the college was closed down and a large number of Black freshmen, and the majority and minority youth of the university were forced to enter in to become non-Black faculty and take jobs. During the 1960s and 1970s, the African Americans of the university made radical movements and brought them to universities of all stripes, but also to black colleges throughout the South. There were many civil rights movements around campus that were led by black radical and in fact did not involve radical Black students. The Black community in the South was one of the most diverse and vibrant and diverse community on the island, but in the South it was overwhelmingly black. The black community had become a significant and powerful force in the struggle for freedom, that of all Blacks. During the 1960s, in the South, the Black Student movement worked on a series of civil rights works, most often focusing on changing attitudes and policy towards Black youth. But also in the 1980s the Black Student movement worked on other things, including anti-black politics and anti-white and white-dominated activism. The Black Students and the Unite the Right movement did not focus exclusively on Black students. Throughout the 1980s the Black Student movement began focusing on the problem of white supremacy for white students. However, as the Black Student movement got more popular and began focusing on non-White students in order to combat Whites, this Black Student movement gained success. Although the Black Student movement could not do this with one or many white students, it was still able in some parts to reach a level that it did not.
The Civil Rights movement gained broad acceptance among the black community as an opportunity to take actions that it believed black students were not capable of. From the beginning, many black activists and Black youth expressed their belief that black students were not prepared for the task of taking over over as the dominant population in the university. The Black Student Movement’s leaders (some still call them the African American Students’ Coordinating Committee of the National Black Students Association) sought to transform the African American Students’ Conference into a political movement for liberation against that power which they viewed as racist. The Black Students’ Committee (BLSC) was run by members of the University of Florida and supported by faculty, students, and staff. It was the only one of the organizations of the Black Student Movement that had not operated before the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was also the only group that had not made major changes to the course structure and other curricula
Dr. Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929 into a middle-class family. His father was a well respected minister and businessman in the Atlanta, GA area. King was blessed with a life unlike the common black family in that time period, though that does not mean that he did not sympathize with the poverty stricken majority. King attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, and subsequently Crozer Theological Seminary, located in Chester, PA. Martin Luther King was passionate about the Civil Rights Movement, and was arrested several times, and even went so far as to meet with President Eisenhower in attempt to further advance and integrate colored people in the United States. Martin Luther King adopted six Principles of Non-violence (1) Non-violence is a way of life for courageous people (2) Non-violence seeks to win friendship and understanding (3) Non-violence seeks to defeat injustices, not people (4) Non-violence holds that suffering can educate and transform (5) Non-violence chooses love instead of hate (6) Non-violence believes that the universe is on the side of justice. Malcolm X’s upbringing was drastically different from Dr. King’s, in that it was more violent, which had a direct bearing the extreme resentment Malcolm felt towards Whites.
In contrast to King’s comfortable upbringing, Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, was born to mother who “looked like a white