Thursday, February 28, 2008

Malcolm X Post by any means necessary

Malcolm made this book about him so he can share what he did to help people. Malcolm is an African-American citizen. Malcolm is trying to become a preach just like his father Earl Little. Earl Little is a tall black person from Georgia. Earl helps out the Marcus Garvey’s UNIA. The UNIA stands for Universal Negro Improvement Association.
Malcolm X is mainly about a person named Malcolm that lives in Lansing. In the first part of the book, the author describes Malcolm’s childhood. Malcolm was a well behaved child when he was young. When he got older he started to act up and clown around in class. Malcolm was a good football and basketball player. Malcolm played in a team for basketball for his school. He was good in school and other sports and was popular but not a lot. In school Malcolm was able to finish his assignments easily. Malcolm’s teacher’s didn’t think he could work as hard as he should.
As he became older he started to cause mischief. Malcolm tried to steal something from a stall but then he was busted then taken to his mother. The welfare investigators started to question his mother and in the book it says that Malcolm’s mom was a strong women but then she began to cry. Malcolm does everything he can do to keep people away from her. Malcolm is only trying to keep her mother safe. The welfare investigators wanted to take her children away from her. Malcolm’s mom said that she can take care of her own children. Malcolm also wanted the welfare investigators to stop asking his mother so many questions.
Malcolm also worked at bar for shoeshine’s and he cleaned up the urinals in the bathrooms and helped the men wash and dry their hands. He was also given tips for helping these people. Also when Malcolm was around eighteen years old, he started to drug deal gamble and hustle. He dealed illegal drugs, such as marijuana, in the area where he lived. He also hustled other people and worked for a mob gang. When Malcolm was working in the bar they started to give him nicknames. Other black men started to call him homedog before he started to deal drugs. When he was dealing drugs Malcolm was known as "Detroit Red". During Malcolm’s crime sprees Ella figures out about Sophia. Since people are really picky about black men talking to white women some white men actually come up and tell the black men to stay away from the white women. All of this that is happening is before Martin Luther King Jr’s. speech. Malcolm is now job hopping which means he takes a job then he goes directly to a new one. When Malcolm starts to head off to his new job on a train the passengers give him a hard time on the train for four hours going from Boston to New York. Malcolm has a hard time in New York because he has a bad behavior and the manager hears complaints about him so he gets fired from that job. Since Malcolm has jobs he goes around looking for these "Zoot" suits. The zoot suits I think are pimp suits for pimps. Just like when Malcolm was doing when he was working at the bar he spent all his money from the tips on the zoot suit. The zoot suits make Malcolm look like a famous person by the way he dresses, his slang language, and the way he dances that other people might ask for his autograph. Malcolm heads back to New York and he gets a job at a train called the "Silver Meteor". Even though this could have been a good job for him he was also fired because of the way he behaved around the passengers. Malcolm is still in touch with Sophia. Sophia is a girl that Malcolm met in Boston. She would come to see Malcolm but she is a bit too worried about the prostitutes near Malcolm’s apartment building.
Malcolm’s old friend name Shorty in Roxbury is now a traveling musician. Just like Shorty, Malcolm travels around the world preaching to people until the day he was assassinated. On February 1965 there was a rumor that Malcolm was going to be assassinated. Ever since that attempt that the criminal tried to do, Malcolm keeps a gun for self-defense if anyone tries to attack or kill him. During that same year that is when Malcolm X died in a crowd when people tried to save him.

-By: Daniel Miller

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