ed “those relatively few ‘integration’-mad so-called ‘intellectuals,’ and those black men who are otherwise fat, happy, and deaf, dumb, and blinded with their crumbs from the white man’s rich table,… (Malcolm X 186).” This category included intellectual black people and even other black leaders of the time who often attacked the Black Muslims for their radical ways. “Mr. Muhammad said he wanted us to try our best not to publicly counterattack the black ‘leaders’ because one of the white man’s tricks was keeping the black race divided and fighting against each other. Mr. Muhammad said that this had traditionally kept the black people from achieving the unity which was the worst need of the black race in America (Malcolm X 247).” One basic teaching of this faith was that in order to fully separate from white people, the blacks must unite under a common front, leaving no stragglers behind.To show just how far removed Malcolm X is from the two previous authors mentioned, he goes so far as to directly criticize one of them. Malcolm comments that for centuries hating white people “had been just fine as long as the victimized, brutalized, and exploited black people had been grinning and begging and ‘Yessa, Massa’ and Uncle Tomming,” but now that blacks were beginning to stand up for their rights, it was not allowed (Malcolm X 243). The same Uncle Tom who had been the ideal representation of a black man according to Stowe is the epitomy of what is wrong within black society according to Malcolm X. In his time, being strong and stupid and just letting people plow over you in the name of your religion was unthinkable and shameful to the black cause. “This twentieth-century Uncle Thomas is a professional Negro…by that I mean his profession is being a Negro for the white man (Malcolm X 248).”Later in his life, after a trip...
