my grandpa had him and mandela together on his wall thats how i knew about him

its tragic man

from what i remember i learned about both and don't think he was painted in a worse light than mlk or anything

What's funny is they also nitpick the parts about MLK they want to show you too.

For some off reason, people are just now realizing that MLK detested moderates when it was always part of his discourse.

Depends on the teachers. For example in the later stages of primary school I was taught: MLK good, Malcolm X bad. In High School I was taught: 2 sides of the same coin, but never going into the details.

My parents educated me on them more-so than the schools though.

A big tragedy is American schools not teaching anything about Frantz Fanon

The weird thing for me is, we were taught about Malcolm in elementary school in a very fair and educational way, but never again after that

Same district

We as little kids were expected to sift through his nuanced views but that’s where the line was drawn lol

Malcolm X basically believed that individual communities had the right to be autonomous from the white democracy, elect their own leaders, and police themselves, and that achieving this would require violence because the state itself uses violence to maintain it's authority. He was entirely correct in both his a***ysis and solution.

Shiiieettt, My childhood was confusing. Basically i was passed around to different places, neighborhoods, classes and was really just confused on some identity s***. No one really taught me s*** about anything at that time. i was left alone with a cousin or a homie whoever wanted to take me in. My fam consists of alot of races due to adoption and i was never at my moms cause she was off the s***s.

Long story short i didnt know who tf i was for the longest time. Reading the book gave me a foundation on who i wanted to be and a huge sense of pride in my race that was never taught to me before i read the book. After that book i started getting into politics too cause it made me hella pissed off. its more than an autobiography imo. He breaks everything down

Plus i read it when i was in the deep south and my life was personally changing overall. Without the south, this book, and standing on the corner - red burns, who knows who id be rn

Didn’t learn about him at all in Arizona during school. Shame.

Read what I said again.
Not sure what school you went to, but make sure your children don’t go there.

White people basically taught “all these niggas was the devil except for MLK we liked him”

My school taught me jack s*** about Malcolm, absolutely nothing. Spike Lee's movie is actually what sparked my interest, after that I borrowed the Biography from my aunt went from there.

that's how most schools talk about him. My junior year I did a presentation about black music and religion and their impact anf influence on America. I talked about Malcolm X and a lot of kids were shocked of how he actually wasn't a radical man who pushed violence all the time. His autobiography is amazing as well.

(Prezi I did: prezi.com/view/iHv9U2OkOlXP7gRGAhy5)

Coincidentally ordered his autobiography last week

there was nothing to pay more attention to they didn't teach Malcom X in detail at all whatsoever and only vaguely as well as incorrectly covered him

MLK and Malcolm have both been tragically whitewashed

The million man march and the I have a dream speech were also incredible

Malcolm a legend. Dude was rallying black people, marching down to the police, and getting his brothers free. I HATE the disrespect uneducated white people put on his name.

MLK was considered the most dangerous man in America by the FBI.

alot of the communist attacks on MLK got dropped from education material too. if you were a kid you should even had think that people thought he was a Russian operative

Malcolm s**

You're lied to about most civil rights activists, tbh