Oh boy another vague title. Okay, let’s do this.
Well, to start off, just to get the ball rolling, I know that this blog is supposed to be about Malcolm X. To me, it could go in either two directions:
1) X discovering himself.
Or
2) His prominence in today’s society
I prefer number one, so I will commence with that one.
At this point in the book, X is educating himself and is just discovering the Nation of Islam. He says that it is the first time in his life that he had ever had an important thought. He is examining himself, society and what is real and what is not. X was blown away by the rich history of his ancestry and angered that he was blinded for so long. Islam gave him an awakening experience. It was like being reborn. It gave him a new prospective on life. He no longer felt hate towards religion. His introduction to Islam came at the right time in his life. Just as he was discovering the truth, a religion that claimed to have the whole truth was presented before him. I have not finished the book, but I can imagine that it will be about X cleaning himself up and his work with human rights. None of that would have been possible if he had never discovered himself in prison.
You know what…now that I think of it, I don’t really like the second option. Skip that guys just kidding.
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