Please Visit Our Above Sponsor Martin Luther King and Malcolm X - Two Views, One Cause Many black authors and leaders of the sixties shared similar feelings towards the white run American society in which they lived. Malcolm X,James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, and Stokely Carmichael all blamed thewhites for the racism which existed. However, they agreed that it was upto the black society to end this problem. Using the black society, each ofthe authors had their own idea of how racism could be stopped.Unfortunately, for some, such as Malcolm X, this involved the use ofviolence, while others, such as King, favored the non-violent approach.This paper will focus, for the most part, on Malcolm X and King becausethey are both strong representations of two different approaches to acommon goal. Perhaps their different approaches of violence andnonviolence stem from their original opinions of how capable the whites areof being "good". Not all of the whites involved in the problem of racism supported it.Some were actually trying to help fight for the blacks. Unfortunately, ittook Malcolm X a long time to figure that out. Malcolm's paper, "TheBallot or the Bullet," makes that clear. In his paper, he is constantlycriticizing whites as a whole. He does not consider, even for a moment,that a white could actually support equality for all men. "Usually, it'sthe white man who grins at you the most, and pats you on the back, and issupposed to be your friend. He may be friendly, but he's not your friend"(261). However, in a later work of his, "1965," one can see that Malcolm waslearning to accept whites as possible allies. I tried in every speech I made to clarify my new position regarding white people - 'I don't speak against the sincere, well meaning, good white people. I have learned that there are some. I have learned that not all white people are racists' (367). Yet, while Malcolm learn...
