This is Islam. Malcom X

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Didn't watch the video.  I've read enough about Malcolm X to be monumentally uninterested in watching him say stuff.  He was every bit as racist as the white establishment he (justifiably) railed against.

Boru

No he was NOT, again, take into account his entire life, not cherry pick parts of it.

Late in his life he realized the separatist attitude was wrong and died understanding that we were all the same species.

NOW try to understand WHY he reacted the way he did. If you grow up seeing blacks beaten up and lynched and denied equal rights, you are going to get angry. 

This is the part of his life people miss. If you understand and say "Justifiably so" then you cant call his racism as being the same as white racism. It was a reaction to the abuse. You'd be better to argue he didn't need to go that route, but don't put the reaction in the same category as those whom abused him.

Malcolm was a separatist because he saw white people abusing blacks. But eventually he became disillusioned with that attitude when the rift was created in his Nation of Islam when he realized his hero Elijah Muhammed was not the perfect man he thought he was. At that point he still kept his "by any means" slogan, but finally stopped seeing every white person as his enemy.

Yeah, not going to argue it.

Boru