Maclom X post 2

After reading chapters 5-8, I feel like there was a change in Malcolm X that was out of what he was used to. I mean even though he used to dance, he now started drugs and even started robbing. I mean at least do something new. Drugs are too cliché, but his life seemed hopeless at this point and that is why he did what he did, I think. The way he grew up shows how he now acts like he will always be oppressed and he has lost hope to strive for a better life. Chris rock said best in the following link.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hde6O0v0Jw (the video has curses in it so I caution you).

Chris Rock talks about how black people and white people are never treated the same way. Malcolm knows that and since he is doing all drugs and robbing places, he feels like he is fixed in his class. Now racism is what Malcolm X sees all around and just accepts it. While I was reading this I thought to myself "Is that guy crazy, he doesn't have to take that from the white man". Chris Rock showed me that oppression can be overcome and I am not just saying it, okay? I am a minority myself so I know how it feels like to be beat up on. I mean I have grown my whole life with racial slurs and even vandalism in my day. Before I moved here, my dad owned a Subway™/convenient store. When 9/11 occurred, all the white people in the neighborhood, came broke the windows and tossed over tables and threw around all the products. Most of them even threatened to kill him and his family if we didn't leave the country. I was in my dad's store when this happened. I mean I felt so helpless because they had guns and everything and were holding the guns up to the employees. I saw my dad so scared that I just hated not being able to be strong enough to stand up and stop all of the nonsense. I was only 8 but for that moment I felt 4 or 2. Chris said that he is not the real owner of his house and he would move out when the white people came back. Ever since that day in my dad's store, I have had a grudge against all the white people that I meet. My open-mindedness has been taken away but I am fighting to get it back. I know that I don't ridicule very well and every time I see white people clutch their purses and suddenly become vigilant of their belongings when they see my kind, i feel like hurting them but I know that maybe the had a traumatic experience in their life as well or that was just the way they grew up. Until I write again, see you guys later.