Youth : OPINION : Malcolm X: a Hero for Today?

For white people, Malcolm X meant fear. For many whites, what he represented and his aspirations for blacks went contrary to the pacifism of Martin Luther King Jr. And while I personally disagree with Malcolm’s posture in regard to violence and its use to achieve social justice and freedom for blacks, I think the events that happened in his life justified his motives.

But though he advocated a radical route to the goals he achieved, one wonders what might have been if he had not been assassinated. It was clear that he was revising his position on some issues.

Unfortunately, leaders like Malcolm X seem to be only found in the past. We are desperately in need of someone like Malcolm X. Right here in my own high school, where racial hatred can be felt in the halls, we need a Malcolm X. Not to unite one race but all the races.