The Life of Malcolm X
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Importance of Listening to People
On some levels, Barack Obama reminds me very much of Malcolm X. And what I mean by that is this, Malcolm is always in search of his father. Same thing happens to Barack Obama. He really literally only has one memory of his father when he's about 10, 11 years old and coming back to visit him in Hawaii. By the time he's at Columbia University, his father dies in a car accident in Africa. In Malcolm's case, Elijah Muhammad becomes the father figure. Malcolm felt that racism, white supremacy robbed him of.
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