Second Opinion / COMMENTARY FROM OTHER MEDIA : KOREA TIMES (English Edition) : Meeting Malcolm X
(Malcolm X) placed racial pride as a high priority because of the destructiveness of American (or Eurocentric) education, which robbed his people of the true knowledge and assessment of their African heritage.
This aspect of Malcolm’s purposeful undertaking--giving spiritual sustenance to his people by exposing the frailties and cruelties of the enemy--is something that Koreans can juxtapose to the realities of Japanese racism against them.
Koreans in Japan have been denied their national identity, mobility, basic needs and acceptance in the Japanese mainstream--no matter how long they have lived there. The stigmatization, humiliation and derrogating of Koreans is made clearer by Malcolm’s analysis of racism.
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