Europe's chancelleries for the next century played a chess game of naked exploration and power from Cape Horn to Cairo. (Malcom X p.81)This excerpt tells why he was so angry at most whites during the time of slavery. He disliked the way Europeans devoured parts of the world for pure exploration and raw power. The way he learned of this travesty was from books. Without books Malcom X would not be the man that we know today.I felt very strongly towards his views concerning most everything. It made me feel bad for being a white person hearing everything he said about the treatment of blacks by whites. His "homemade education" made him a very great man of his time, but was hated by most whites because of his beliefs about whites. Although he taught himself everything he knew, and felt free doing it, his mind was a little too free. That freedom allowed him to become influenced by all anti-white propaganda and to form a deep hatred for whites. Everything he read was biased towards non-whites, and this skewed his look at history. "Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world's black, brown, red, and yellow peoples every variety of the sufferings of exploitation." (Malcom X p. 81) Therefore, he is somewhat of a hypocrite, but some of his views I do agree with. I understand most of where he was coming from, but some times, he went a little bit too far. I really find his views on slavery very insightful. It made me feel bad to be a white person because I cannot believe that my ancestors would do that to another human beings. I believe that slavery was among one of the worst abuses of human since time has begun. There was no reason for whites to take black into slavery just because of their color. "As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive." (Malcom X p. 82) This really hit me as a very strong statement from him. Reading is knowledge is rea...
