I've read both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King's Jr biographies and their different approaches in their fight against the black man's oppression in the USA. King went fot the non-violent approach while X quoting his own words, wanted freedom for his people ''by any means necessary.'' Whose approach do you think was more successful in bringing equality between the different races?
2007-01-27 19:01:22 · 7 answers · asked by fifi 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Malcolm x.
Equality means more than just being protected the same way by laws and given the same opportunities. It also means being able to feel as free as, and as respected as the other.
Being beat on by someone whether they be policemen, soldiers, or the guy on the corner and just sitting there will never allow a person to feel equal. The nature of the relationship prohibits this. Its like saying the more they beat me and i don't fight back the more i become their equals. That's worse than a gang initiation, at least there you get to fight back and at least feel like you stood up for yourself.
Another reason why Malcolm is the only answer is because there is something liberating about taking your freedom. It was done by your own hands, you didn't wait on it, you stood up for yourself. Taking your feedom is the great equalizer, it proves that you are just as wise, strong, and ambitious as they are.
Being set free (using civil disobidience) is not as liberating. It is not equalizing Why? Being being set free helps reinforce the master/slaver, superior/inferior relationship. Being set free means the superior gave it to you. You were unequal until they decided to make you feel equal. So although your status might change, you still have to accept the fact that they beat on you until they didn't want to anymore, not because you made them stop. It means you only half way stood up for yourself?
when was the last time you let yourself get taken advantage of and felt good about it later on or felt equal to the person who took advantage of you?
2007-01-27 19:27:36 · answer #1 · answered by gotcha 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
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2016-05-07 15:28:53 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
2007-01-27 20:56:16 · answer #3 · answered by Imagineer 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Martin Luther King is held in high esteem while Malcolm X is viewed as a radical. We do not have Malcolm X day in his honor the way we do Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King was a great man, and helped all colors of people to become free. His legacy will go on forever.
2007-01-27 19:05:30 · answer #4 · answered by Sparkles 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Dr. Martin Luther King.
2007-01-27 19:08:58 · answer #5 · answered by bigjohn B 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i have heard Malcolm X became turning out to be more desirable lifelike in his perspectives in the previous he became killed. i do not recognize if i'm alright to save on with the lead of MLK (Gandhi, too, became a tremendous guy although the non-violence component for me is problematical each and every from time to time) or maybe as i ought to have marched with him, i do not imagine i'd have stopped myself from miraculous lower back, even regardless of the actuality that that route takes more desirable power.
2016-10-16 05:12:53 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
both had good ideas however the only way to truly not be oppressed is education
2007-01-27 19:12:41 · answer #7 · answered by Elizabeth 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋