Plymouth Rock Landed on Us: Malcolm X's Whiteness Theory as a Basis for Alternative Literacy

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Alex Haley's "Autobiography of Malcolm X" We are not Americans. We are Africans who came to America. We were kidnapped and came to Africa contrary to our will. About us "(Lord, Thornton and Bodipo-Memba, 1992) The above words will mark Malcolm X in American ethnic minds from all ethnic backgrounds and socio-economics. Malcolm X is certainly not a mean person. The United States thinks he became one of the most difficult times for African-Americans during the civil rights movement, African-Americans feel they are considered inhuman By being sent to the United States as a slave, they were deprived of education, forced to live in different areas, engaged in minimum income work, neither political rights nor legal protection.When postwar

As Omowale Malcolm X is a scholar of great warrior, "We did not land on the rocks of Plymouth, the Plymouth rocks landed at us!" The American political system was created for blacks It is not. On Independence Day, the majority of our ancestors in this country are still enslaved, and as time goes on, slavery has become more complicated, more complicated and latent. We can neither agree nor rely on the laws made for white for protecting ourselves and serving ourselves. In this country, we will not be treated as equal or treated by any human being. Although it is widely believed that we have never "acquired" any rights or freedoms. Every inch of the progress we accomplish involves blood, sweat and tears. We must prevent massacres against us using collective political and economic forces. As an individual, we are relatively incompetent. Like our ancestors, we mean to be a community