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I do not understand why he supposedly got more credit than he deserved. I think everyone that was part of the civil rights movement at the time was very progressively minded. You have to think that MLK was assassinated for his ideas. That means those ideas were being expressed at a time when they were not accepted. Of course he deserves credit; his ideas were beautiful. It is not his fault that blacks today are still holding on to the victimization card and not integrating. The fact the Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd is one of the most dangerous streets to be on is ironic. It was most likely a result of other public figures drawing out the anger and the feeling of oppression without giving them a chance to fade. It may even be a mentality left over by those who listened to Malcom X...
On Malcom X:
Malcom X should be respected in the same way as MLK but I do not feel that it should be to the same degree. Both of them sought after a similar goal: power to black people. But their visions of what it should be was different. Malcom X spent most of his time trying to convert people to Islam and sought to give blacks power through the religion. But his mentality would have still kept blacks and whites serparate. He did not want for them to live harmoniously with eachother; he wanted them to be separate by telling them that this "world" was not theirs and they should not be part of it. MLK preached a unity and an equality that, at the time, was very unacceptable. That is the difference.
On Malcom X:
Malcom X should be respected in the same way as MLK but I do not feel that it should be to the same degree. Both of them sought after a similar goal: power to black people. But their visions of what it should be was different. Malcom X spent most of his time trying to convert people to Islam and sought to give blacks power through the religion. But his mentality would have still kept blacks and whites serparate. He did not want for them to live harmoniously with eachother; he wanted them to be separate by telling them that this "world" was not theirs and they should not be part of it. MLK preached a unity and an equality that, at the time, was very unacceptable. That is the difference.
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