Malcolm X intro In Biography

   

Malcolm X Intro for biography first impression:

I have always had an interest in learning more about civil rights activists and figures since the school system fails to fully go in depth on more than just the civil rights movement. I decided to start reading the Autobiography of Malcolm X because I feel like he doesn't receive as much recognition as Dr. King or other prominent figures like Rosa Parks. I feel like I have enough adequate knowledge on the lives of the other civil rights activists except him. So after enough thought I decided to take the paperback from my dad's bookshelf to go in deeper on the life of the radical, impressive, and intriguing life of Mr. X.

To start off with, I learned that Malcolm X came from a big family and that his father was a preacher who held meetings in secret with other African Americans that discussed the ideas and philosophy of Marcus Garvey. Mr. Garvey is responsible for the idea of giving African Americans the concept of returning back to Africa and the idea that Black Americans would thrive a lot more if they all went back to Africa and had their own nation of their own due to the horrible treatment white people were giving to African Americans. Malcolm X's father was also a huge target of the KKK or the Ku Klux Klan. There was speculation that his father was killed because of the KKK, but later it was ruled as a suicide from stepping in front of a train, to cover it up and to prevent insurance companies to aid for the now single parent family Malcolm X would be in.

Furthermore, the intro of the life of Malcolm X lightly covers the concept of  colorism, which is the idea that the lighter skin you have with close to straighter hair, the more superior you are compared to people who have darker skin and curlier hair. The classic Brown paper bag test that is till used to this day derived from the idea of colorism. The concept of colorism has been alive since the times of slavery and was a method of dividing the black community by the white people. Overall, I love so far how the book is going, it does not hold back on anything regarding how passionate Malcolm X was for fighting for and explaining the severity of the negative impact racial injustice has on poorly affected our society. I hope to finish it soon.