lked about African Americans and the need to ‘unbrainwash an entire people’” (Davies 103). Malcolm said, “Anytime you live in a society supposedly based upon law and it doesn’t enforce its own law because of racism, then people are justified to resort to any means necessary to bring about justice”. He also stressed how important education was. He thought, “Education was means to help black people rediscover their identity and thereby increase their self-respect” (Davies 103). “Malcolm’s greatest message as a teacher was that Negroes must acquire a sense of dignity, a sense of personal pride and value in their identity” (Margolies 158).Along with positive messages, there were also negative ones. “Just three days before his death, he confessed to a reporter, ‘ I’m man enough to tell you that I can’t put my finger on exactly what my philosophy is now’” (Frady 3). “Malcolm’s view seemed a vision of humankind’s nature reduced to the basest, most minimal terms of anger and retribution for abuse” (Frady 1). “It’s doubtful whether Malcolm would have come so quickly to the attention of the white public were it not for the fiery message of ‘violence’ he preached” (Margolies 165). “Malcolm and the Muslims believed that to integrate would destroy the black race” (Davies 71). Unfortunately, whites that were willing to help blacks were not wanted by Malcolm X. “He encouraged whites to form groups to work among other whites to combat prejudice” (DEbony 82). “Malcolm felt that if the government was not able or willing to protect African Americans, they should take up arms and protect themselves” (Davies 103). “Malcolm saw integration as the white man’s way of rewarding a few black men in return for the peace-keeping and status-quo-preservin...
