Malcom_X

Malcom X A book can be the window to a whole new world. Books can correct the slant that people see on certain things in their life. Books can correct misconceptions and ill conceived notions of other people, religions, and ideas. Books help people to understand something they have never understood before. The Autobiography of Malcom X has accomplished that with some of my ideas and thoughts. A view once skewed has become straighter. A dark corner of history now has a little more light. Never has a book of history opened my eyes wider, captivated me more, than the story of Malcom Little. Little, it seems a contradiction of terms for such a giant of a man, a man I never took the time to understand. In seventh grade black students at my school began wearing t-shirts with “Malcom and Martin” printed on them, I did not know who Malcom was. My African-American band director held the entire band over the bell one day to give us a lecture on Malcom X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., telling the students wearing those shirts that Malcom and Martin had nothing in common, and malcom, white, people, islam, muhammad, man, life, began, time, prison, nation, one, black, about, elijah, religion, muslim, country, world, out, little, felt, believe, america, mr, malcom’s, children, american, word, while, way, truly, own, myself, made