By Stephen Tuck, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Stephen Tuck tells the human tale at the back of the controversy and likewise makes use of it as a kick off point to debate better problems with Black strength, the tip of empire, British race family, immigration, and pupil rights. Coinciding with a student-led crusade opposed to segregated housing, the stopover at enabled Malcolm X to make connections with radical scholars from the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia, giving him a brand new point of view at the international fight for racial equality, and in flip, radicalizing a brand new new release of British activists. Masterfully tracing the reverberations on each side of the Atlantic, Tuck chronicles how the non-public transformation of the dynamic American chief performed out at the foreign stage.
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40 The American in him reckoned they needed to up their marketing game. And in that regard, he might have much to teach—╉though he also knew he still had a lot to learn. Not only did he feel special in Arabia, but he was sure that he was being prepared for a unique role upon his return home. ” Just as Martin Luther King Jr. was convinced he had a calling from God to lead the American civil rights movement, Malcolm X felt that divine selection was propelling him to return to the West to talk about Islam.
He started dealing marijuana and “sold reefers like a wild man. ” After running foul of the narcotics squad and being placed under surveillance, he began to carry a gun. When he was summoned to an army draft interview, he told the military psychiatrist that he couldn’t wait to be conscripted so he could turn his gun on white racist American soldiers. He wasn’t called up. ” He got involved in fights—╉with gamblers and with his 22â•… /â•… A Life of Travel and Discovery: Malcolm X, 1925-1964 best friend’s lover.
From this moment on, through to the end of his life, Malcolm X adopted—╉and advocated—╉a color-blind view of human potential and human rights. “It is only being a Muslim which keeps me from seeing people by the colour of their skin,” he told a British audience a week before he died. ╯. ”↜39 By the end of the week, Malcolm X had moved from wideeyed praise to more sanguine, keen-eyed observation. ” For all the interracialism on show, he noticed that different color groups tended to stay together.
