Earl Little: The English American Baptist Lover
Knowledge Is Power
The power of language is an extraordinary thing. One person with the knowledge of language can teach you, persuade you, motivate you, or even move you to the point that you have a whole different perspective of your everyday surroundings. Preachers can bring people closer to god with the gift of speech; dictators can muster and persuade a whole nation into world domination with the gift of language and speech; and poets can comfort the weary at heart with language and speech. But for the most part language is unconsciously the norm for our everyday lives, if you want to excel in life you must educate yourself. One young man by the name of Malcolm Little did push himself toward higher learning of the English …show more content…
Earl Little belonged to (UNIA) The
Universal Negro Improvement Association. Being a member of the UNIA got Earl in a lot of trouble with the Ku Klux Klan. So the Little family had to move around a lot through the years. In 1931 Earl was found dead, most believed that he had been murdered. Malcolm’s mother never fully recovered from her husband death and was admitted into the mental instution for the rest of her remaining years. Malcolm moved to Boston with his sister after their father’s death. He worked a few small jobs until he got hooked on drugs. Soon after his addiction he steered towards crime to support his habits. In 1946 he was convicted of burglary and sentenced to ten years in prison. In Prison Malcolm became a member of Islam like so many other black men did while imprisoned in the 40’s and 50’s.
During his stay in prison he would write local drug dealers, politicians, and hustlers and explain about the state of black Americans. Malcolm felt as if he was restrained in the way he worded his conversations and letters in Prison. He was the type that could motivate and strike a …show more content…
As a child watched his family fall apart, and as a illiterate teen addicted to drugs and surviving on the streets; lead him to prison and hatred for the white man. In prison Malcolm had two options, to serve his time and go back to his old neighborhood and pick up where he left off in his life of crime, or pursue his urge to educate himself. He decided to take the hard road, If Malcolm never picked up that dictionary would he have ever accomplished what he did? Malcolm was a strong influence in early 50s and 60s for pro segregation of races, but after years of pursuing higher learning he moved on to preaching for unity and equality among all races. Pursuing more knowledge could be one of the only free things left in our modern world.
It’s your choice that if you want to put down the TV remote, you can pick up a book. If not you could go the rest of your life accepting other people opinions and thoughts as if they were your own; till you are just an empty shell waiting to be herded around like cattle. In the 21st century there is no room to act as if the human race were still primitive and only rely on
The power of language is an extraordinary thing. One person with the knowledge of language can teach you, persuade you, motivate you, or even move you to the point that you have a whole different perspective of your everyday surroundings. Preachers can bring people closer to god with the gift of speech; dictators can muster and persuade a whole nation into world domination with the gift of language and speech; and poets can comfort the weary at heart with language and speech. But for the most part language is unconsciously the norm for our everyday lives, if you want to excel in life you must educate yourself. One young man by the name of Malcolm Little did push himself toward higher learning of the English …show more content…
Earl Little belonged to (UNIA) The
Universal Negro Improvement Association. Being a member of the UNIA got Earl in a lot of trouble with the Ku Klux Klan. So the Little family had to move around a lot through the years. In 1931 Earl was found dead, most believed that he had been murdered. Malcolm’s mother never fully recovered from her husband death and was admitted into the mental instution for the rest of her remaining years. Malcolm moved to Boston with his sister after their father’s death. He worked a few small jobs until he got hooked on drugs. Soon after his addiction he steered towards crime to support his habits. In 1946 he was convicted of burglary and sentenced to ten years in prison. In Prison Malcolm became a member of Islam like so many other black men did while imprisoned in the 40’s and 50’s.
During his stay in prison he would write local drug dealers, politicians, and hustlers and explain about the state of black Americans. Malcolm felt as if he was restrained in the way he worded his conversations and letters in Prison. He was the type that could motivate and strike a …show more content…
As a child watched his family fall apart, and as a illiterate teen addicted to drugs and surviving on the streets; lead him to prison and hatred for the white man. In prison Malcolm had two options, to serve his time and go back to his old neighborhood and pick up where he left off in his life of crime, or pursue his urge to educate himself. He decided to take the hard road, If Malcolm never picked up that dictionary would he have ever accomplished what he did? Malcolm was a strong influence in early 50s and 60s for pro segregation of races, but after years of pursuing higher learning he moved on to preaching for unity and equality among all races. Pursuing more knowledge could be one of the only free things left in our modern world.
It’s your choice that if you want to put down the TV remote, you can pick up a book. If not you could go the rest of your life accepting other people opinions and thoughts as if they were your own; till you are just an empty shell waiting to be herded around like cattle. In the 21st century there is no room to act as if the human race were still primitive and only rely on