ut to separate from it, to a land of [their] own, where [they could] reform [themselves], lift up [their] moral standards, and try to be godly” was the only answer (Malcolm X 250). Malcolm X and the other Black Muslims were often attacked as being segregationists and against the progression of black Americans. Malcolm X stated “No! We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that segregation is when your life and liberty are controlled, regulated, by someone else. To segregate means to control. Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals – for the good of both! (Malcolm X 251)”Malcolm X and all followers of Elijah Muhammad believed that Christianity, the philosophy Harriet Beecher Stowe thought would help the black cause, was one of the biggest things holding it down. “This is white man’s Christian religion used to brain-wash us black people! We have accepted it! We have embraced it! We have believed it! We have practiced it! And while we are doing all of that, for himself, this blue-eyed devil has twisted his Christianity, to keep his foot on our backs…to keep our eyes fixed on the pie in the sky and heaven in the hereafter…while he enjoys his heaven right here…on this earth…in this life (Malcolm X 205).” Malcolm X teaches that Christianity is only the white devils ploy to keep blacks docile and placid so that the whites can trample all over him. This view was actually only held by a small percentage of African-Americans, however, and was attacked by many other black leaders who were Christians themselves.Malcolm X spoke out loudly against many different things, but one of the things he disliked most were blacks that were happy where they were in the white world. He hat...
