MLK and Malcolm X once again are at their differences. MLK wanted to solve this problem with non violence whereas Malcolm X wanted to use violence to solve the problem. “Bomb our homes and threaten our children; send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our communities and drag us out on some wayside road, beating us and leaving us half dead, and we will still love you. But we will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer” (Doc H) This is what MLK said in his Stride Toward Freedom book when he was finally starting the move of segregation being put to an end. He was saying that no matter how badly or how much the white people beat up the blacks, the blacks will still love them and respect them for who they are and not fight back because if they fought back it would just make everything worse. You can not fight one wrong with another wrong, two wrongs don’t make anything right. In the other hand, Malcolm X thought the best way to fix the racism was to fight it with violence. “ I believe we should protect ourselves be any means necessary when we are attacked by racists.” (Doc K) Malcolm is literally saying that if anyone gets attacked that they should fight back even though that isn’t always the safest plan. The safest way to go at this point would to just take in the beatings until the whites get sick of it and give up because it would be pointless to just fight back and
MLK and Malcolm X once again are at their differences. MLK wanted to solve this problem with non violence whereas Malcolm X wanted to use violence to solve the problem. “Bomb our homes and threaten our children; send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our communities and drag us out on some wayside road, beating us and leaving us half dead, and we will still love you. But we will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer” (Doc H) This is what MLK said in his Stride Toward Freedom book when he was finally starting the move of segregation being put to an end. He was saying that no matter how badly or how much the white people beat up the blacks, the blacks will still love them and respect them for who they are and not fight back because if they fought back it would just make everything worse. You can not fight one wrong with another wrong, two wrongs don’t make anything right. In the other hand, Malcolm X thought the best way to fix the racism was to fight it with violence. “ I believe we should protect ourselves be any means necessary when we are attacked by racists.” (Doc K) Malcolm is literally saying that if anyone gets attacked that they should fight back even though that isn’t always the safest plan. The safest way to go at this point would to just take in the beatings until the whites get sick of it and give up because it would be pointless to just fight back and