In The Autobiography of Malcolm X, he gives detail on his perspective of the world. Throughout his life he was exposed to many events that gave insight and knowledge, which ultimately would play a key role in molding Malcolm X into the man that he would soon become. In the entirety of Malcolm's life he was faced with the problem of racism and racist people. One of Malcolm's first encounters with racist people, as told to him by his mother, occurred before he was even born. On page 2 he says, “When my mother was pregnant with me, … a party of Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in boston.” So even before Malcolm was born, he and his family were threatened by racist klansmen. This quote also shows infers that Malcolm would have future problems with white supremacist. Now Malcolm's father, a preacher of the words of March Garvey and a member of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, was in turn heavily hated among the klansmen. White supremacist hated his teachings so much that the only thing they could think of to stop him, was to kill him. On page 2 Malcolm says, “And my father was finally to die by the white man’s hand.” Malcolm also says, “It has always been my belief that I, too, would die by …show more content…
One thing that was very common was the use of racial slurs, namely the word “nigger”. On page 27 Malcolm says, “A hundred times a day they used the word “nigger”.” He also says, “I suppose that in their own minds, they meant no harm, in fact they probably meant well.” This quotes Shi that during Malcolm's time, racism was so common, that white people used the word “nigger” in both a derogatory manner and as a way to refer to African Americans in a well manner. In retrospect the use of racial slurs being so common, was mainly caused by how previous generations raised their children to believe that racial slurs were acceptable to