malcom x
... real manhood and becoming responsible for his actions. While in prison he wrote out the dictionary by hand for the sole purpose of learning to use the same tools that the same people in power were using to distort things to their will. Malcom X brought things a little further and was far more dangerous to civil rights leaders than he was to the establishment. Malcom X’s basic philosophy was, lets clean up our own communities with no government help, no welfare, no interference from groups other than the black people themselves. He was for black owned schools, black owned businesses, black owned towns, etc. He saw that we were basically not going to go anywhere taking hand outs from the same people who oppressed them for years. He was not a person who was all talk, on a meager salary he set up organizations in the black communities like Muslim school where children learned to speak some of known African languages. He set up an area of black owned businesse...