Comparing Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcom X

Jackpot, lucky seven and snake eyes, these are just a few words that fill the air in a casino. A casino is the place to gamble money in order to make quick change. Just like the 1960s, people gambled their time and lives away in order to change the world. While there are many who gambled for racial equality, two were extremely good at it. Their names were Malcom X, and Martin Luther King Jr. Though there methods were different, they both made change. Although the change made isn’t money, but a change in the people in order for them to strive for racial equality. Evidently, when Malcom begins to guide the people, he becomes a card dealer instead of the gambler, making the people gamble at his ideas. Therefore when Malcom X gives his speech, like a dealer in a casino, he
The analogy begins when Malcom says “you can never reach a man if you don’t speak his language.” By this, he is trying to demonstrate that a man who speaks English cannot understand a man who speaks Spanish. In order for both to understand each other, the man who speaks English must learn to speak Spanish and vice versa. Yet he tells the people that instead of a language, it’s a status of power. By using his analogy he shows the people a man speaks brute force, only understands brute force. Continuing with the speech, Malcolm begins to overstate his claim proclaiming that “the only time he reacts is when he knows you can hurt him.” From picking apart this quote, Malcom X wants the people to realize that the word he, in the quote, can be replaced with oppressor. Thus through the facts he wants people to realize the facts; facts being the oppressor wouldn’t act if the man can oppress him back. Although the people have a number ten, his analogy hits the gambler with a 12, making a perfect 21, and giving the gambler, the people, and some