The Hate that Hate Produced

Wow I really like watching this documentary. It was so cool to see a real live interview of Malcolm X reflecting on his beliefs in a laudatory tone that were so similar to those of his father and Marcus Garvey. The whole show being in black and white was interesting, because it made me realize how advanced our technology has become. I kind of got the chills watching the interview because it reminded me of similar speeches to those of Martin Luther King Jr., and Barrack Obama. Malcolm x even said something (sorry I can't really remember what), that foreshadowed the coming of a black ruler in America, and all I could think of was Barrack Obama becoming president. This made me smile a little because all of this is happening during my lifetime, so its pretty amazing. It was funny to see Elijah Muhammad because he was a black man, which was not what I pictured. I thought he was a little Indian man who looked like Ghandi :] but I was wrong. Yes and one thing I didn't like however was the clarity of the the interview. Things were a little blurry so it was hard to see fully. Another thing was the that the interview was cut into ten sections, each like nine minutes long, so I had to keep going back to play the next section. But I really liked watching it for the most part and am going to look up more speeches because it's really different seeing it in semi real life opposed to reading it on paper. it was really engaging.

Same old Same old

Okay. so i really like reading the autobiography of Malcolm X, but I feel like I keep reading a lot of the same stuff. This could be in part to him having one single purpose in his writing, which I find him to be repeating very much, but even so it does get boring sometimes. To be a little clearer I think I get more bored with his speeches than the autobiography itself. In the speeches specifically the one I just read, called The Chickens Come Home to Roost, 9 long pages which had a lot of the same text that I read in a previous speech, took so much time to build up to the last page, the main idea which was about President John Kennedy getting what he deserved in his assassination because of his infiltration with brainwashing the civil rights activists into believing integration would come ..someday. Anyways in the autobiography Malcolm X is reaching his peek of deviance, and I've found his younger years to be a more interesting read than his adult years. I'm still not so excited about filling out the log sheets because I keep going back and forth on the texts so i don't know what to record and what not to record???

A very boring speech!!!!

Yea I attempted to read another speech by Malcolm X, but this was just too boring. I feel like he was too repetitive and it was on the topic of religion, so i was just like blah blah blah. Don't get me wrong it was interesting to read considering alot of it had logistics and it did make me think hard..maybe too hard... but anyways yea i just kept reading the same stuff over and over again. Not to mention I looked at the top of the page and I was only on page 5 of 12. So, not bad... I guess, I mean I'd read half of it, but I couldn't read another word on how Christianity was not God's religion and how Judaism was Judas religion but not Jacobs...No thanks i didn't want a CCD class. So I closed the binder and opened his autobiography to read on about his interesting life in Boston. I really like the book so far because it evokes alot of emotion in me. It's actually funny because the book is like 450 pages long including the epilogue and it has really fine print so when I first got it my jaw just dropped, but I'm actually pacing myself pretty well and enjoying the read. Right now Malcom X is like 14 years old and he moved from Lansing down to Boston to stay with his half sister from his dad's side. It's 1937 so they have really weird slang words like my hair was "conked", which is just a kind of hair style from back then, and I wanted "slave", which means work. They do a pretty nice job at defining what the words mean though so thats good. I almost cried like 2 chapters ago too when his mother was put away into a psych ward and then he flashes foward and says how she hadn't even remembered who he was when he went to visit her last, and how he knew that would be the last time he visited her because something in him felt missing. Imagine that the woman who nurtures you and brings you into this world can't even remember you. It was really upsetting :[ Anyways off to read some more

ta da

I chose to research Malcom X because of the mark he has left in history. At first i wanted to do Barrack Obama becasue I think he has a very interesting life, but then I realized that X was more than just a mmeber of the Black Panther party which I had learned aout in history class last year, and I became curious to learn why he is considered one of the most controversial leaders of all times. From what I have read so far Malxom X lived a very sadened life. I am reading his autobiography(as told to by Alex Healey) and have read one of his speecehes reflecting his veiws on the Muslam faith. I can actually see why he is controversial. He's actually written that he didn't want to be asssociated with the civil rights activists becasue although he was against segregation, he promoted sepration not intergration. wow thats kind of a tongue twister. Anyways I believe his purpose is to persuade his audience to believe in his theory of seperation not intergration, which reflects the views of Marcus Garvey.