Chapter 11 Reading Quiz Writing Response
“ The white man can lynch and burn and bomb and beat Negroes- that’s all right: ‘Have patience’…’The customs are entrenched’…’Things are getting better’…Well, I believe it’s a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself…
I tried in every speech I made to clarify my new position regarding white people- I don’t speak against the sincere, well-meaning, good white people… I am speaking against and my fight is against the white racists. I firmly believe that Negroes have the right to fight against these racists, by any means that are necessary…
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man’s problem—just to avoid violence. I don’t go for non-violence if it also means a delayed solution. To me a delayed solution is a non-solution.” – Malcolm X, from the Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)

Identify a constitutional provision that supports Malcolm X’s insistence on human rights for black people.

Identify differences between Malcolm X’s recommended citizen-state interactions and the citizen-state interactions Dr. King describes in “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”

Respuesta :

A constitutional provision that supports Mr. X’s insistence on human rights for black people is the equal protection clause mentioned in the 14th Amendment. It is a constitutional provision that supports Malcolm’s demand regarding African Americans human rights.

Differences between Malcolm X’s recommended citizen-state interactions and the citizens state interactions of Dr. King are that Mr. X supported and endorsed violence, claiming that nonviolent protest only stall continual progress, while Dr. MLK endorsed nonviolence, believing that it was the greatest way. Another difference mas Dr. King’s position on training people to accept crimes and punishments and not fighting back, whereas Mr. X believed it was horrible for people to be brutalized and not defend themselves.