Malcolm X and James
Baldwin
One of the
connections between is how they felt about trusting white people. In Malcolm X
he says, “He may stand with you through thin, but never thick; when the chips
are down, you’ll find that as fixed in as his bone structure is his sometimes
subconscious conviction that he’s better than anybody black.” There is a
similar quote in “Notes of A Native Son” “… that my white friends in
high-school were not really my friends and that I would see, when I was older,
how white people would do anything to keep a Negro down.” These two men are
both stating that white people may only be friendly skin deep, but they won’t
be by your side one hundred percent. One of the more obvious connections was
that they were both black ministers seeking equal rights, although their style
and beliefs about obtaining equals rights are a little different. One more
connection is that you can argue that bot of their fathers died from the feud
between whites and black. Although James’ dad’s death was internal from the
hatred and Malcolm X’s father passed from a white mob.
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