Malcolm X is contentious and a bad figure for a simple "the good guy versus the bad guy" narrative. Because, in very simplified terms, he started as a pretty wild Nation of Islam supporter but eventually had enough introspection to say things like "whites aren't inherently evil."
So if you want to hold him up as a true black hero, you have to attack either the NoI for being psychotically evil or ignore the last chunk of his life including the people/reason he was killed. And if you want to don't agree with the civil rights movement or just blacks, you have to reverse that in a way.
I wouldn't call him more virtuous but he was certainly worth at least looking at, because he represents a much more average black man's descent into being suckered into some of the more wild shit and what often happens if you try to leave.
That's fair; like I said my knowledge about that guy really isn't that much. The history of the civil rights movement has for the most part not been an area of interest lol.
Even if you were interested, its basically impossible to get a really good set of knowledge on it. Its been so sanitized and rewritten that you need to take multiple sources and crosscheck them with each other to find the one's that accidentally let a little truth slip out between the carefully constructed narratives.
That's one benefit Malcolm X does have. People are super wary to claim him fully, so a lot of his information is out there posted by people who hated him. Unlike people like MLK or Rosa Parks, who no one would dare criticize out loud.
Malcolm X is contentious and a bad figure for a simple "the good guy versus the bad guy" narrative. Because, in very simplified terms, he started as a pretty wild Nation of Islam supporter but eventually had enough introspection to say things like "whites aren't inherently evil."
So if you want to hold him up as a true black hero, you have to attack either the NoI for being psychotically evil or ignore the last chunk of his life including the people/reason he was killed. And if you want to don't agree with the civil rights movement or just blacks, you have to reverse that in a way.
I wouldn't call him more virtuous but he was certainly worth at least looking at, because he represents a much more average black man's descent into being suckered into some of the more wild shit and what often happens if you try to leave.
That's fair; like I said my knowledge about that guy really isn't that much. The history of the civil rights movement has for the most part not been an area of interest lol.
Even if you were interested, its basically impossible to get a really good set of knowledge on it. Its been so sanitized and rewritten that you need to take multiple sources and crosscheck them with each other to find the one's that accidentally let a little truth slip out between the carefully constructed narratives.
That's one benefit Malcolm X does have. People are super wary to claim him fully, so a lot of his information is out there posted by people who hated him. Unlike people like MLK or Rosa Parks, who no one would dare criticize out loud.
Want to estimate his lifespan beyond that point?