We May Be Together, But We’re Not Birds of a Feather

Malcolm X. His original name was Malcolm Little Norton, but he dropped this "slave name" Little and adopted the initial X when he became a member of the Nation of Islam (NOI). Which then, gain in rank, was called El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. And the aim of this sect was not the inclusion or integration of Afro-American Blacks, but rather it was forming a segregation of these same in USA.

 

Parallel to this sect, also was the American Nazi Party, founded and led by George Lincoln Rockwell, self-proclaimed American Hitler. The aim of this group was completely divide blacks from whites, forming an America for white people.

 

Both groups, in spite of being very different, wanted something in common: America divided. And it is there that begins this kind of relationship towards the same objective.

 

June 25, 1961 in Washington, George Lincoln Rockwell at a rally of the Nation of Islam

 

Malcolm X personally invited Rockwell to the rally, in which also spoke Elijah Muhammad. Once, to an audience of 5,000 devotees from the Nation of Islam, he said: "Proud to be here to the black men. Elijah Muhammad is the Adolf Hitler of the black man". Rockwell admired both, due to the intransigence with they preached racial separation. "They, like me, want separate nations: one for whites and one for blacks," he said in an interview for Playboy magazine. 

 

February 25, 1962. Picture of a rally in Chicago

 

Malcolm X also had meetings with the Ku Klux Klan with the same objective: boycott the integrationism. He promoted hatred of the white man and considered them unable to overcome their prejudices. He denigrated Martin Luther King and other pacifists black leaders by the naivete of dreaming with a society in which civil rights will recognized to citizens of any race. He preached that the only dignified black was revolutionary.

 

So how is that he has been glorified when history has shown that he was wrong? What do you think about him and his practices?