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he learned how to read and write by readimg a dictionary and was reading the words over and over again

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(I don't know why in the stars only a handful of people talked about this and the rest just talked about penmanship, but idk.)

Malcolm mentions in the essay that along his journey to learn to read, he gained an important and essential knowledge of history – specifically, the history of Blacks, their struggle with slavery, and how the Whites remained the "superior" power in society, eclipsing the Blacks and erasing their historical accounts. This knowledge was the fuel for Malcolm's burning desire to help his brothers and sisters, and it opened up a new world for him. A world in which he understood what the Whites were doing in the shadows, and a society where he finally comprehended enough to make a change.

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Malcolm taught himself to read, and in doing this he interpreted and comprehended words upon his own brain and influences. This was important because malcolm learned the meaning of words, and there connation are deeper than what is said.

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Malcolm taught himself to read, and in doing this he interpreted and comprehended words upon his own brain and influences. This was important because malcolm learned the meaning of words, and there connation are deeper than what is said.

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Not only did Malcolm's strategy of reading and copying the entire dictionary teach him to be a proficient reader, it also was the catalyst that began his entire obsession with taking down the white man. Until his hunger for knowledge begun, Malcolm had been essentially blind to his crimson history, "I never will forget how shocked I was when I began reading about slavery's total horror... the worlds most monstrous crime, the sin and blood on the white man's hands, are almost impossible to believe,"(250).  He taught himself about his history and more importantly he began to teach himself how to change the future for the black man. "My homemade education gave me, with every additional book I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America," Malcolm reflects as he explains all the wonderful horrors that reading opened his eyes to. So, in conclusion, as Malcolm discovered the wonderful world that books opened to him, he also discovered his history.

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e feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.
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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.
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The claims Malcolm X made about African history made me horrified and ashamed. Malcolm X mentioned how Arnold Toynbee had "written that Africa was the only continent that produced no history" (250) which is completely untrue as Africa has probably produced more history than most other continents. Malcolm X also mentions the atrocities that were committed by white people to many different races and groups around the world. X wrote, "...I read about the histories of various nations... to how the whole world's white man had indeed acted like devils, pillaging and raping and bleeding and draining the whole world's non-white people" (250-251). He also says, "...more eloquent than those books were in providing indisputable proof that the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man" (251-252).
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When hearing Malcolm's views on African history, I felt ashamed and sad that such important parts of history had been overlooked. When discussing Mr. Muhammad's views, Malcolm says "when white men had written history books, the black man simply had been left out. Mr. Muhammad couldn't have said anything that would have struck me much harder," (248). When reading this portion of the essay, it reminded me of how in history classes we have discussed how our books are written very much from the standpoint of Europeans, and how we often don't like to remember the mistakes made by the European sect of Americans as much. I feel that the horrible chapters of American history have started to be discussed more in schools, but when taking some history classes the teacher still has to add more information to the textbook's content in order to include other significant actions taken by non-Europeans as a whole. I also felt incredibly ashamed and mortified when Malcolm brought up countless examples of how African people and all people of color had been abused by Europeans. While giving these examples, Malcolm says, "Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world's black... peoples every variety of the sufferings of exploitation," (251). This statement was painfully proven by an awful amount of examples. This made me feel incredibly small and guilty because people who shared my race and religion were so horrible to people who were different. I realized even more fully how terrible everything has been for so many people in the past, just because of being close minded and self righteous. 
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Honestly, when I read about Malcolm's findings on African history, I couldn't feel anything but shame and sorrow for that part of hstory that he read. When he came across the teachings of Mr. Muhamund he said, "wen white men had written history books, the black mahad simply been left out." (pg. 248) That isn't how people, black or white should learn history, it's like being lied to, it's just wrong. 
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Malcom's claims about African history made me sick. I do believe that throughout humans time here on Earth, history has been somewhat "whitened". Even from my youth history classes, the information about the African Americans had been kept to a minimum until I had grown older. It rings true that "the history of the Negro had been covered in one paragraph"(248). Malcom explains that Toynbee wrote "that Africa was the only continent that produced no history"(250). This statement makes my blood boil, what knowledge does any person have to say there's been no history of any place or person? Each second of every day adds to new history, new memories and new experiences. Our whole lives we are lied to and told half truths about our country and the world as a whole. As kids we wouldn't know anything unless someone else wanted us to, and now that we are older we can take it upon ourselves to learn the truth. 
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Throughout Malcolm’s autobiography, he made claims about the African history. These claims made me feel humiliated for what occurred in our history. Malcolm explained that, “The world’s most monstrous crime, the sin and the blood on the white man’s hands, are almost impossible to believe” (250). Hearing this, I am speechless, and sad that the African American race had to suffer through such horrific things throughout history. Learning about this history allows me to become motivated to have everyone in the world understand what happened so we, as a society can change and broaden the future thoughts of the children growing up. As I learn about the history of the races, I hope that our world can learn from this, and treat everyone with respect and equality. 
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Reading about how blacks were treated made me feel guilty because my relatives were people who also treated them like that. He talks about genetics and how "if you started with a black man, a white man could be produced; but starting with a white man, you never could produce a black man-because the white gene is recessive"(249) White men could not be here if it was not for black men and we do not praise them for that, instead we beat them and make them suffer. It disturbs me how any human could treat another like that.
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Reading about how blacks were treated made me feel guilty because my relatives were people who also treated them like that. He talks about genetics and how "if you started with a black man, a white man could be produced; but starting with a white man, you never could produce a black man-because the white gene is recessive"(249) White men could not be here if it was not for black men and we do not praise them for that, instead we beat them and make them suffer. It disturbs me how any human could treat another like that.
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One of the tenants of history is that it is written by the victors, and any viewpoint opposing theirs is left out of the records. This phenomenon has erased pieces of history throughout many eras, and is particularly evident with regard to African and African-American history. I obviously feel the guilt of an unnecessary discrimination of the past, but I also feel a sense of mourning for the vast amounts of history that were lost to prejudice and imperialism. 
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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.

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Malcom X brought up the ugliest parts of history that involve racial segregation and white people have to just take ownership of it. It is necessary to make sure that the current generation as well as the posterity do not follow in the footsteps of our ancestors 
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Malcolm’s claims about African American’s history were just as accurate as they were intense. This paragraph in particular made me feel guilty for being white, “I perceived, as I read, how the collective white man had been actually nothing but a piratical opportunist who used Faustian machinations to make his own christianity his initial wedge in criminal conquests. First always ‘religiously,’ he branded ‘heathen’ and ‘pagan’ labels upon ancient non-white cultures and civilizations. The stage thus set, he turned upon his non-white victims his weapons of war,”(251). As I read those words and all of those that precede it, I tried to defend my own people and find some way to justify their cruelty and acts that can only be described as monstrous and inhumane, I realized that we had no justification for all of the sadistic things that we did and have been doing for hundreds of years at least. Even today, as I read Malcolm’s reflections on Mr. Muhammad’s techings, “... history had been ‘whitened’- when white men wrote the history books, the black man had simply been left out,” I realize that out of the perhaps hundreds of units I’ve done in American History, World History, and other basic Social Studies classes, that i have maybe done two units on black history. And even those chapters have no perspective of the people afflicted by it. I do notice a definite bias in Malcolm’s writing and I can absolutely sense the hatred in his words, however I would not call them an overreaction and absolutely not incorrect in any sense of the word. 
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Malcolm's process of learning differed from that of a normal person, because he was living in a prison. The only book high in vocabulary was the dictionary. So he started to write the pages of the dictionary and read the definitions out loud.
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His claims about the African and whites histroy made me feel ashamed for the white people who were so discriminating. "Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world's black,  brown, red and yellow peoples every variety of sufferings of exploitation"(251). The blacks were treated so poorly and the history that Malcolm explained hits the the roots of a persons emotions.
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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.
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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.
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The claims Malcolm X made about African history made me horrified and ashamed. Malcolm X mentioned how Arnold Toynbee had "written that Africa was the only continent that produced no history" (250) which is completely untrue as Africa has probably produced more history than most other continents. Malcolm X also mentions the atrocities that were committed by white people to many different races and groups around the world. X wrote, "...I read about the histories of various nations... to how the whole world's white man had indeed acted like devils, pillaging and raping and bleeding and draining the whole world's non-white people" (250-251). He also says, "...more eloquent than those books were in providing indisputable proof that the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man" (251-252).
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When hearing Malcolm's views on African history, I felt ashamed and sad that such important parts of history had been overlooked. When discussing Mr. Muhammad's views, Malcolm says "when white men had written history books, the black man simply had been left out. Mr. Muhammad couldn't have said anything that would have struck me much harder," (248). When reading this portion of the essay, it reminded me of how in history classes we have discussed how our books are written very much from the standpoint of Europeans, and how we often don't like to remember the mistakes made by the European sect of Americans as much. I feel that the horrible chapters of American history have started to be discussed more in schools, but when taking some history classes the teacher still has to add more information to the textbook's content in order to include other significant actions taken by non-Europeans as a whole. I also felt incredibly ashamed and mortified when Malcolm brought up countless examples of how African people and all people of color had been abused by Europeans. While giving these examples, Malcolm says, "Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world's black... peoples every variety of the sufferings of exploitation," (251). This statement was painfully proven by an awful amount of examples. This made me feel incredibly small and guilty because people who shared my race and religion were so horrible to people who were different. I realized even more fully how terrible everything has been for so many people in the past, just because of being close minded and self righteous. 
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Honestly, when I read about Malcolm's findings on African history, I couldn't feel anything but shame and sorrow for that part of hstory that he read. When he came across the teachings of Mr. Muhamund he said, "wen white men had written history books, the black mahad simply been left out." (pg. 248) That isn't how people, black or white should learn history, it's like being lied to, it's just wrong. 
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Malcom's claims about African history made me sick. I do believe that throughout humans time here on Earth, history has been somewhat "whitened". Even from my youth history classes, the information about the African Americans had been kept to a minimum until I had grown older. It rings true that "the history of the Negro had been covered in one paragraph"(248). Malcom explains that Toynbee wrote "that Africa was the only continent that produced no history"(250). This statement makes my blood boil, what knowledge does any person have to say there's been no history of any place or person? Each second of every day adds to new history, new memories and new experiences. Our whole lives we are lied to and told half truths about our country and the world as a whole. As kids we wouldn't know anything unless someone else wanted us to, and now that we are older we can take it upon ourselves to learn the truth. 
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Throughout Malcolm’s autobiography, he made claims about the African history. These claims made me feel humiliated for what occurred in our history. Malcolm explained that, “The world’s most monstrous crime, the sin and the blood on the white man’s hands, are almost impossible to believe” (250). Hearing this, I am speechless, and sad that the African American race had to suffer through such horrific things throughout history. Learning about this history allows me to become motivated to have everyone in the world understand what happened so we, as a society can change and broaden the future thoughts of the children growing up. As I learn about the history of the races, I hope that our world can learn from this, and treat everyone with respect and equality. 
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Reading about how blacks were treated made me feel guilty because my relatives were people who also treated them like that. He talks about genetics and how "if you started with a black man, a white man could be produced; but starting with a white man, you never could produce a black man-because the white gene is recessive"(249) White men could not be here if it was not for black men and we do not praise them for that, instead we beat them and make them suffer. It disturbs me how any human could treat another like that.
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Reading about how blacks were treated made me feel guilty because my relatives were people who also treated them like that. He talks about genetics and how "if you started with a black man, a white man could be produced; but starting with a white man, you never could produce a black man-because the white gene is recessive"(249) White men could not be here if it was not for black men and we do not praise them for that, instead we beat them and make them suffer. It disturbs me how any human could treat another like that.
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One of the tenants of history is that it is written by the victors, and any viewpoint opposing theirs is left out of the records. This phenomenon has erased pieces of history throughout many eras, and is particularly evident with regard to African and African-American history. I obviously feel the guilt of an unnecessary discrimination of the past, but I also feel a sense of mourning for the vast amounts of history that were lost to prejudice and imperialism. 
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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.

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Malcom X brought up the ugliest parts of history that involve racial segregation and white people have to just take ownership of it. It is necessary to make sure that the current generation as well as the posterity do not follow in the footsteps of our ancestors 
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Malcolm’s claims about African American’s history were just as accurate as they were intense. This paragraph in particular made me feel guilty for being white, “I perceived, as I read, how the collective white man had been actually nothing but a piratical opportunist who used Faustian machinations to make his own christianity his initial wedge in criminal conquests. First always ‘religiously,’ he branded ‘heathen’ and ‘pagan’ labels upon ancient non-white cultures and civilizations. The stage thus set, he turned upon his non-white victims his weapons of war,”(251). As I read those words and all of those that precede it, I tried to defend my own people and find some way to justify their cruelty and acts that can only be described as monstrous and inhumane, I realized that we had no justification for all of the sadistic things that we did and have been doing for hundreds of years at least. Even today, as I read Malcolm’s reflections on Mr. Muhammad’s techings, “... history had been ‘whitened’- when white men wrote the history books, the black man had simply been left out,” I realize that out of the perhaps hundreds of units I’ve done in American History, World History, and other basic Social Studies classes, that i have maybe done two units on black history. And even those chapters have no perspective of the people afflicted by it. I do notice a definite bias in Malcolm’s writing and I can absolutely sense the hatred in his words, however I would not call them an overreaction and absolutely not incorrect in any sense of the word. 
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His claims about the African and whites histroy made me feel ashamed for the white people who were so discriminating. "Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world's black, brown, red and yellow peoples every variety of sufferings of exploitation"(251). The blacks were treated so poorly and the history that Malcolm explained hits the the roots of a persons emotions.
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His claims about the African and whites histroy made me feel ashamed for the white people who were so discriminating. "Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world's black,  brown, red and yellow peoples every variety of sufferings of exploitation"(251). The blacks were treated so poorly and the history that Malcolm explained hits the the roots of a persons emotions.
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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.
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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.
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The claims Malcolm X made about African history made me horrified and ashamed. Malcolm X mentioned how Arnold Toynbee had "written that Africa was the only continent that produced no history" (250) which is completely untrue as Africa has probably produced more history than most other continents. Malcolm X also mentions the atrocities that were committed by white people to many different races and groups around the world. X wrote, "...I read about the histories of various nations... to how the whole world's white man had indeed acted like devils, pillaging and raping and bleeding and draining the whole world's non-white people" (250-251). He also says, "...more eloquent than those books were in providing indisputable proof that the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man" (251-252).
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When hearing Malcolm's views on African history, I felt ashamed and sad that such important parts of history had been overlooked. When discussing Mr. Muhammad's views, Malcolm says "when white men had written history books, the black man simply had been left out. Mr. Muhammad couldn't have said anything that would have struck me much harder," (248). When reading this portion of the essay, it reminded me of how in history classes we have discussed how our books are written very much from the standpoint of Europeans, and how we often don't like to remember the mistakes made by the European sect of Americans as much. I feel that the horrible chapters of American history have started to be discussed more in schools, but when taking some history classes the teacher still has to add more information to the textbook's content in order to include other significant actions taken by non-Europeans as a whole. I also felt incredibly ashamed and mortified when Malcolm brought up countless examples of how African people and all people of color had been abused by Europeans. While giving these examples, Malcolm says, "Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world's black... peoples every variety of the sufferings of exploitation," (251). This statement was painfully proven by an awful amount of examples. This made me feel incredibly small and guilty because people who shared my race and religion were so horrible to people who were different. I realized even more fully how terrible everything has been for so many people in the past, just because of being close minded and self righteous. 
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Honestly, when I read about Malcolm's findings on African history, I couldn't feel anything but shame and sorrow for that part of hstory that he read. When he came across the teachings of Mr. Muhamund he said, "wen white men had written history books, the black mahad simply been left out." (pg. 248) That isn't how people, black or white should learn history, it's like being lied to, it's just wrong. 
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Malcom's claims about African history made me sick. I do believe that throughout humans time here on Earth, history has been somewhat "whitened". Even from my youth history classes, the information about the African Americans had been kept to a minimum until I had grown older. It rings true that "the history of the Negro had been covered in one paragraph"(248). Malcom explains that Toynbee wrote "that Africa was the only continent that produced no history"(250). This statement makes my blood boil, what knowledge does any person have to say there's been no history of any place or person? Each second of every day adds to new history, new memories and new experiences. Our whole lives we are lied to and told half truths about our country and the world as a whole. As kids we wouldn't know anything unless someone else wanted us to, and now that we are older we can take it upon ourselves to learn the truth. 
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Throughout Malcolm’s autobiography, he made claims about the African history. These claims made me feel humiliated for what occurred in our history. Malcolm explained that, “The world’s most monstrous crime, the sin and the blood on the white man’s hands, are almost impossible to believe” (250). Hearing this, I am speechless, and sad that the African American race had to suffer through such horrific things throughout history. Learning about this history allows me to become motivated to have everyone in the world understand what happened so we, as a society can change and broaden the future thoughts of the children growing up. As I learn about the history of the races, I hope that our world can learn from this, and treat everyone with respect and equality. 
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Reading about how blacks were treated made me feel guilty because my relatives were people who also treated them like that. He talks about genetics and how "if you started with a black man, a white man could be produced; but starting with a white man, you never could produce a black man-because the white gene is recessive"(249) White men could not be here if it was not for black men and we do not praise them for that, instead we beat them and make them suffer. It disturbs me how any human could treat another like that.
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Reading about how blacks were treated made me feel guilty because my relatives were people who also treated them like that. He talks about genetics and how "if you started with a black man, a white man could be produced; but starting with a white man, you never could produce a black man-because the white gene is recessive"(249) White men could not be here if it was not for black men and we do not praise them for that, instead we beat them and make them suffer. It disturbs me how any human could treat another like that.
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One of the tenants of history is that it is written by the victors, and any viewpoint opposing theirs is left out of the records. This phenomenon has erased pieces of history throughout many eras, and is particularly evident with regard to African and African-American history. I obviously feel the guilt of an unnecessary discrimination of the past, but I also feel a sense of mourning for the vast amounts of history that were lost to prejudice and imperialism. 
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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.

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Malcolm’s claims about African American’s history were just as accurate as they were intense. This paragraph in particular made me feel guilty for being white, “I perceived, as I read, how the collective white man had been actually nothing but a piratical opportunist who used Faustian machinations to make his own christianity his initial wedge in criminal conquests. First always ‘religiously,’ he branded ‘heathen’ and ‘pagan’ labels upon ancient non-white cultures and civilizations. The stage thus set, he turned upon his non-white victims his weapons of war,”(251). As I read those words and all of those that precede it, I tried to defend my own people and find some way to justify their cruelty and acts that can only be described as monstrous and inhumane, I realized that we had no justification for all of the sadistic things that we did and have been doing for hundreds of years at least. Even today, as I read Malcolm’s reflections on Mr. Muhammad’s techings, “... history had been ‘whitened’- when white men wrote the history books, the black man had simply been left out,” I realize that out of the perhaps hundreds of units I’ve done in American History, World History, and other basic Social Studies classes, that i have maybe done two units on black history. And even those chapters have no perspective of the people afflicted by it. I do notice a definite bias in Malcolm’s writing and I can absolutely sense the hatred in his words, however I would not call them an overreaction and absolutely not incorrect in any sense of the word. 
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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.

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Malcolm’s claims about African American’s history were just as accurate as they were intense. This paragraph in particular made me feel guilty for being white, “I perceived, as I read, how the collective white man had been actually nothing but a piratical opportunist who used Faustian machinations to make his own christianity his initial wedge in criminal conquests. First always ‘religiously,’ he branded ‘heathen’ and ‘pagan’ labels upon ancient non-white cultures and civilizations. The stage thus set, he turned upon his non-white victims his weapons of war,”(251). As I read those words and all of those that precede it, I tried to defend my own people and find some way to justify their cruelty and acts that can only be described as monstrous and inhumane, I realized that we had no justification for all of the sadistic things that we did and have been doing for hundreds of years at least. Even today, as I read Malcolm’s reflections on Mr. Muhammad’s techings, “... history had been ‘whitened’- when white men wrote the history books, the black man had simply been left out,” I realize that out of the perhaps hundreds of units I’ve done in American History, World History, and other basic Social Studies classes, that i have maybe done two units on black history. And even those chapters have no perspective of the people afflicted by it. I do notice a definite bias in Malcolm’s writing and I can absolutely sense the hatred in his words, however I would not call them an overreaction and absolutely not incorrect in any sense of the word. 
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One of the tenants of history is that it is written by the victors, and any viewpoint opposing theirs is left out of the records. This phenomenon has erased pieces of history throughout many eras, and is particularly evident with regard to African and African-American history. I obviously feel the guilt of an unnecessary discrimination of the past, but I also feel a sense of mourning for the vast amounts of history that were lost to prejudice and imperialism. 
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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.

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Malcolm’s claims about African American’s history were just as accurate as they were intense. This paragraph in particular made me feel guilty for being white, “I perceived, as I read, how the collective white man had been actually nothing but a piratical opportunist who used Faustian machinations to make his own christianity his initial wedge in criminal conquests. First always ‘religiously,’ he branded ‘heathen’ and ‘pagan’ labels upon ancient non-white cultures and civilizations. The stage thus set, he turned upon his non-white victims his weapons of war,”(251). As I read those words and all of those that precede it, I tried to defend my own people and find some way to justify their cruelty and acts that can only be described as monstrous and inhumane, I realized that we had no justification for all of the sadistic things that we did and have been doing for hundreds of years at least. Even today, as I read Malcolm’s reflections on Mr. Muhammad’s techings, “... history had been ‘whitened’- when white men wrote the history books, the black man had simply been left out,” I realize that out of the perhaps hundreds of units I’ve done in American History, World History, and other basic Social Studies classes, that i have maybe done two units on black history. And even those chapters have no perspective of the people afflicted by it. I do notice a definite bias in Malcolm’s writing and I can absolutely sense the hatred in his words, however I would not call them an overreaction and absolutely not incorrect in any sense of the word. 
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His claims about the African and whites histroy made me feel ashamed for the white people who were so discriminating. "Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world's black,  brown, red and yellow peoples every variety of sufferings of exploitation"(251). The blacks were treated so poorly and the history that Malcolm explained hits the the roots of a persons emotions.
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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.
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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.
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The claims Malcolm X made about African history made me horrified and ashamed. Malcolm X mentioned how Arnold Toynbee had "written that Africa was the only continent that produced no history" (250) which is completely untrue as Africa has probably produced more history than most other continents. Malcolm X also mentions the atrocities that were committed by white people to many different races and groups around the world. X wrote, "...I read about the histories of various nations... to how the whole world's white man had indeed acted like devils, pillaging and raping and bleeding and draining the whole world's non-white people" (250-251). He also says, "...more eloquent than those books were in providing indisputable proof that the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man" (251-252).
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When hearing Malcolm's views on African history, I felt ashamed and sad that such important parts of history had been overlooked. When discussing Mr. Muhammad's views, Malcolm says "when white men had written history books, the black man simply had been left out. Mr. Muhammad couldn't have said anything that would have struck me much harder," (248). When reading this portion of the essay, it reminded me of how in history classes we have discussed how our books are written very much from the standpoint of Europeans, and how we often don't like to remember the mistakes made by the European sect of Americans as much. I feel that the horrible chapters of American history have started to be discussed more in schools, but when taking some history classes the teacher still has to add more information to the textbook's content in order to include other significant actions taken by non-Europeans as a whole. I also felt incredibly ashamed and mortified when Malcolm brought up countless examples of how African people and all people of color had been abused by Europeans. While giving these examples, Malcolm says, "Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world's black... peoples every variety of the sufferings of exploitation," (251). This statement was painfully proven by an awful amount of examples. This made me feel incredibly small and guilty because people who shared my race and religion were so horrible to people who were different. I realized even more fully how terrible everything has been for so many people in the past, just because of being close minded and self righteous. 
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Honestly, when I read about Malcolm's findings on African history, I couldn't feel anything but shame and sorrow for that part of hstory that he read. When he came across the teachings of Mr. Muhamund he said, "wen white men had written history books, the black mahad simply been left out." (pg. 248) That isn't how people, black or white should learn history, it's like being lied to, it's just wrong. 
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Malcom's claims about African history made me sick. I do believe that throughout humans time here on Earth, history has been somewhat "whitened". Even from my youth history classes, the information about the African Americans had been kept to a minimum until I had grown older. It rings true that "the history of the Negro had been covered in one paragraph"(248). Malcom explains that Toynbee wrote "that Africa was the only continent that produced no history"(250). This statement makes my blood boil, what knowledge does any person have to say there's been no history of any place or person? Each second of every day adds to new history, new memories and new experiences. Our whole lives we are lied to and told half truths about our country and the world as a whole. As kids we wouldn't know anything unless someone else wanted us to, and now that we are older we can take it upon ourselves to learn the truth. 
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Throughout Malcolm’s autobiography, he made claims about the African history. These claims made me feel humiliated for what occurred in our history. Malcolm explained that, “The world’s most monstrous crime, the sin and the blood on the white man’s hands, are almost impossible to believe” (250). Hearing this, I am speechless, and sad that the African American race had to suffer through such horrific things throughout history. Learning about this history allows me to become motivated to have everyone in the world understand what happened so we, as a society can change and broaden the future thoughts of the children growing up. As I learn about the history of the races, I hope that our world can learn from this, and treat everyone with respect and equality. 
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Reading about how blacks were treated made me feel guilty because my relatives were people who also treated them like that. He talks about genetics and how "if you started with a black man, a white man could be produced; but starting with a white man, you never could produce a black man-because the white gene is recessive"(249) White men could not be here if it was not for black men and we do not praise them for that, instead we beat them and make them suffer. It disturbs me how any human could treat another like that.
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Reading about how blacks were treated made me feel guilty because my relatives were people who also treated them like that. He talks about genetics and how "if you started with a black man, a white man could be produced; but starting with a white man, you never could produce a black man-because the white gene is recessive"(249) White men could not be here if it was not for black men and we do not praise them for that, instead we beat them and make them suffer. It disturbs me how any human could treat another like that.
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One of the tenants of history is that it is written by the victors, and any viewpoint opposing theirs is left out of the records. This phenomenon has erased pieces of history throughout many eras, and is particularly evident with regard to African and African-American history. I obviously feel the guilt of an unnecessary discrimination of the past, but I also feel a sense of mourning for the vast amounts of history that were lost to prejudice and imperialism. 
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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.

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Malcolm’s claims about African American’s history were just as accurate as they were intense. This paragraph in particular made me feel guilty for being white, “I perceived, as I read, how the collective white man had been actually nothing but a piratical opportunist who used Faustian machinations to make his own christianity his initial wedge in criminal conquests. First always ‘religiously,’ he branded ‘heathen’ and ‘pagan’ labels upon ancient non-white cultures and civilizations. The stage thus set, he turned upon his non-white victims his weapons of war,”(251). As I read those words and all of those that precede it, I tried to defend my own people and find some way to justify their cruelty and acts that can only be described as monstrous and inhumane, I realized that we had no justification for all of the sadistic things that we did and have been doing for hundreds of years at least. Even today, as I read Malcolm’s reflections on Mr. Muhammad’s techings, “... history had been ‘whitened’- when white men wrote the history books, the black man had simply been left out,” I realize that out of the perhaps hundreds of units I’ve done in American History, World History, and other basic Social Studies classes, that i have maybe done two units on black history. And even those chapters have no perspective of the people afflicted by it. I do notice a definite bias in Malcolm’s writing and I can absolutely sense the hatred in his words, however I would not call them an overreaction and absolutely not incorrect in any sense of the word. 
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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.
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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.
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The claims Malcolm X made about African history made me horrified and ashamed. Malcolm X mentioned how Arnold Toynbee had "written that Africa was the only continent that produced no history" (250) which is completely untrue as Africa has probably produced more history than most other continents. Malcolm X also mentions the atrocities that were committed by white people to many different races and groups around the world. X wrote, "...I read about the histories of various nations... to how the whole world's white man had indeed acted like devils, pillaging and raping and bleeding and draining the whole world's non-white people" (250-251). He also says, "...more eloquent than those books were in providing indisputable proof that the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man" (251-252).
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When hearing Malcolm's views on African history, I felt ashamed and sad that such important parts of history had been overlooked. When discussing Mr. Muhammad's views, Malcolm says "when white men had written history books, the black man simply had been left out. Mr. Muhammad couldn't have said anything that would have struck me much harder," (248). When reading this portion of the essay, it reminded me of how in history classes we have discussed how our books are written very much from the standpoint of Europeans, and how we often don't like to remember the mistakes made by the European sect of Americans as much. I feel that the horrible chapters of American history have started to be discussed more in schools, but when taking some history classes the teacher still has to add more information to the textbook's content in order to include other significant actions taken by non-Europeans as a whole. I also felt incredibly ashamed and mortified when Malcolm brought up countless examples of how African people and all people of color had been abused by Europeans. While giving these examples, Malcolm says, "Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world's black... peoples every variety of the sufferings of exploitation," (251). This statement was painfully proven by an awful amount of examples. This made me feel incredibly small and guilty because people who shared my race and religion were so horrible to people who were different. I realized even more fully how terrible everything has been for so many people in the past, just because of being close minded and self righteous. 
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Honestly, when I read about Malcolm's findings on African history, I couldn't feel anything but shame and sorrow for that part of hstory that he read. When he came across the teachings of Mr. Muhamund he said, "wen white men had written history books, the black mahad simply been left out." (pg. 248) That isn't how people, black or white should learn history, it's like being lied to, it's just wrong. 
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Malcom's claims about African history made me sick. I do believe that throughout humans time here on Earth, history has been somewhat "whitened". Even from my youth history classes, the information about the African Americans had been kept to a minimum until I had grown older. It rings true that "the history of the Negro had been covered in one paragraph"(248). Malcom explains that Toynbee wrote "that Africa was the only continent that produced no history"(250). This statement makes my blood boil, what knowledge does any person have to say there's been no history of any place or person? Each second of every day adds to new history, new memories and new experiences. Our whole lives we are lied to and told half truths about our country and the world as a whole. As kids we wouldn't know anything unless someone else wanted us to, and now that we are older we can take it upon ourselves to learn the truth. 
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Throughout Malcolm’s autobiography, he made claims about the African history. These claims made me feel humiliated for what occurred in our history. Malcolm explained that, “The world’s most monstrous crime, the sin and the blood on the white man’s hands, are almost impossible to believe” (250). Hearing this, I am speechless, and sad that the African American race had to suffer through such horrific things throughout history. Learning about this history allows me to become motivated to have everyone in the world understand what happened so we, as a society can change and broaden the future thoughts of the children growing up. As I learn about the history of the races, I hope that our world can learn from this, and treat everyone with respect and equality. 
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Reading about how blacks were treated made me feel guilty because my relatives were people who also treated them like that. He talks about genetics and how "if you started with a black man, a white man could be produced; but starting with a white man, you never could produce a black man-because the white gene is recessive"(249) White men could not be here if it was not for black men and we do not praise them for that, instead we beat them and make them suffer. It disturbs me how any human could treat another like that.
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Reading about how blacks were treated made me feel guilty because my relatives were people who also treated them like that. He talks about genetics and how "if you started with a black man, a white man could be produced; but starting with a white man, you never could produce a black man-because the white gene is recessive"(249) White men could not be here if it was not for black men and we do not praise them for that, instead we beat them and make them suffer. It disturbs me how any human could treat another like that.
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One of the tenants of history is that it is written by the victors, and any viewpoint opposing theirs is left out of the records. This phenomenon has erased pieces of history throughout many eras, and is particularly evident with regard to African and African-American history. I obviously feel the guilt of an unnecessary discrimination of the past, but I also feel a sense of mourning for the vast amounts of history that were lost to prejudice and imperialism. 
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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.

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Malcolm’s claims about African American’s history were just as accurate as they were intense. This paragraph in particular made me feel guilty for being white, “I perceived, as I read, how the collective white man had been actually nothing but a piratical opportunist who used Faustian machinations to make his own christianity his initial wedge in criminal conquests. First always ‘religiously,’ he branded ‘heathen’ and ‘pagan’ labels upon ancient non-white cultures and civilizations. The stage thus set, he turned upon his non-white victims his weapons of war,”(251). As I read those words and all of those that precede it, I tried to defend my own people and find some way to justify their cruelty and acts that can only be described as monstrous and inhumane, I realized that we had no justification for all of the sadistic things that we did and have been doing for hundreds of years at least. Even today, as I read Malcolm’s reflections on Mr. Muhammad’s techings, “... history had been ‘whitened’- when white men wrote the history books, the black man had simply been left out,” I realize that out of the perhaps hundreds of units I’ve done in American History, World History, and other basic Social Studies classes, that i have maybe done two units on black history. And even those chapters have no perspective of the people afflicted by it. I do notice a definite bias in Malcolm’s writing and I can absolutely sense the hatred in his words, however I would not call them an overreaction and absolutely not incorrect in any sense of the word. 
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His claims about the African and whites histroy made me feel ashamed for the white people who were so discriminating. "Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world's black, brown, red and yellow peoples every variety of sufferings of exploitation"(251). The blacks were treated so poorly and the history that Malcolm explained hits the the roots of a persons emotions.
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Malcolm's process of learning differed from that of a normal person, because he was living in a prison. The only book high in vocabulary was the dictionary. So he started to write the pages of the dictionary and read the definitions out loud.
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His claims about the African and whites histroy made me feel ashamed for the white people who were so discriminating. "Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world's black,  brown, red and yellow peoples every variety of sufferings of exploitation"(251). The blacks were treated so poorly and the history that Malcolm explained hits the the roots of a persons emotions.
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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.
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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.
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The claims Malcolm X made about African history made me horrified and ashamed. Malcolm X mentioned how Arnold Toynbee had "written that Africa was the only continent that produced no history" (250) which is completely untrue as Africa has probably produced more history than most other continents. Malcolm X also mentions the atrocities that were committed by white people to many different races and groups around the world. X wrote, "...I read about the histories of various nations... to how the whole world's white man had indeed acted like devils, pillaging and raping and bleeding and draining the whole world's non-white people" (250-251). He also says, "...more eloquent than those books were in providing indisputable proof that the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man" (251-252).
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When hearing Malcolm's views on African history, I felt ashamed and sad that such important parts of history had been overlooked. When discussing Mr. Muhammad's views, Malcolm says "when white men had written history books, the black man simply had been left out. Mr. Muhammad couldn't have said anything that would have struck me much harder," (248). When reading this portion of the essay, it reminded me of how in history classes we have discussed how our books are written very much from the standpoint of Europeans, and how we often don't like to remember the mistakes made by the European sect of Americans as much. I feel that the horrible chapters of American history have started to be discussed more in schools, but when taking some history classes the teacher still has to add more information to the textbook's content in order to include other significant actions taken by non-Europeans as a whole. I also felt incredibly ashamed and mortified when Malcolm brought up countless examples of how African people and all people of color had been abused by Europeans. While giving these examples, Malcolm says, "Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world's black... peoples every variety of the sufferings of exploitation," (251). This statement was painfully proven by an awful amount of examples. This made me feel incredibly small and guilty because people who shared my race and religion were so horrible to people who were different. I realized even more fully how terrible everything has been for so many people in the past, just because of being close minded and self righteous. 
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Honestly, when I read about Malcolm's findings on African history, I couldn't feel anything but shame and sorrow for that part of hstory that he read. When he came across the teachings of Mr. Muhamund he said, "wen white men had written history books, the black mahad simply been left out." (pg. 248) That isn't how people, black or white should learn history, it's like being lied to, it's just wrong. 
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Malcom's claims about African history made me sick. I do believe that throughout humans time here on Earth, history has been somewhat "whitened". Even from my youth history classes, the information about the African Americans had been kept to a minimum until I had grown older. It rings true that "the history of the Negro had been covered in one paragraph"(248). Malcom explains that Toynbee wrote "that Africa was the only continent that produced no history"(250). This statement makes my blood boil, what knowledge does any person have to say there's been no history of any place or person? Each second of every day adds to new history, new memories and new experiences. Our whole lives we are lied to and told half truths about our country and the world as a whole. As kids we wouldn't know anything unless someone else wanted us to, and now that we are older we can take it upon ourselves to learn the truth. 
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Throughout Malcolm’s autobiography, he made claims about the African history. These claims made me feel humiliated for what occurred in our history. Malcolm explained that, “The world’s most monstrous crime, the sin and the blood on the white man’s hands, are almost impossible to believe” (250). Hearing this, I am speechless, and sad that the African American race had to suffer through such horrific things throughout history. Learning about this history allows me to become motivated to have everyone in the world understand what happened so we, as a society can change and broaden the future thoughts of the children growing up. As I learn about the history of the races, I hope that our world can learn from this, and treat everyone with respect and equality. 
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Reading about how blacks were treated made me feel guilty because my relatives were people who also treated them like that. He talks about genetics and how "if you started with a black man, a white man could be produced; but starting with a white man, you never could produce a black man-because the white gene is recessive"(249) White men could not be here if it was not for black men and we do not praise them for that, instead we beat them and make them suffer. It disturbs me how any human could treat another like that.
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Reading about how blacks were treated made me feel guilty because my relatives were people who also treated them like that. He talks about genetics and how "if you started with a black man, a white man could be produced; but starting with a white man, you never could produce a black man-because the white gene is recessive"(249) White men could not be here if it was not for black men and we do not praise them for that, instead we beat them and make them suffer. It disturbs me how any human could treat another like that.
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One of the tenants of history is that it is written by the victors, and any viewpoint opposing theirs is left out of the records. This phenomenon has erased pieces of history throughout many eras, and is particularly evident with regard to African and African-American history. I obviously feel the guilt of an unnecessary discrimination of the past, but I also feel a sense of mourning for the vast amounts of history that were lost to prejudice and imperialism. 
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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.

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Malcolm’s claims about African American’s history were just as accurate as they were intense. This paragraph in particular made me feel guilty for being white, “I perceived, as I read, how the collective white man had been actually nothing but a piratical opportunist who used Faustian machinations to make his own christianity his initial wedge in criminal conquests. First always ‘religiously,’ he branded ‘heathen’ and ‘pagan’ labels upon ancient non-white cultures and civilizations. The stage thus set, he turned upon his non-white victims his weapons of war,”(251). As I read those words and all of those that precede it, I tried to defend my own people and find some way to justify their cruelty and acts that can only be described as monstrous and inhumane, I realized that we had no justification for all of the sadistic things that we did and have been doing for hundreds of years at least. Even today, as I read Malcolm’s reflections on Mr. Muhammad’s techings, “... history had been ‘whitened’- when white men wrote the history books, the black man had simply been left out,” I realize that out of the perhaps hundreds of units I’ve done in American History, World History, and other basic Social Studies classes, that i have maybe done two units on black history. And even those chapters have no perspective of the people afflicted by it. I do notice a definite bias in Malcolm’s writing and I can absolutely sense the hatred in his words, however I would not call them an overreaction and absolutely not incorrect in any sense of the word. 
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He taught himself history and ideals. Mainly the belief that white men have stolen much of history. "The teachings of Mr Muhammad stressed how history had been whitened".

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Most people learn to read in school or even on their own. Malcom literally read a dictionary cover to cover. "I saw that the best thing I could do was to get ahold of a dictionary - to study, to learn some words". Quite an odd method indeed.

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Malcolm’s claims about African American’s history were just as accurate as they were intense. This paragraph in particular made me feel guilty for being white, “I perceived, as I read, how the collective white man had been actually nothing but a piratical opportunist who used Faustian machinations to make his own christianity his initial wedge in criminal conquests. First always ‘religiously,’ he branded ‘heathen’ and ‘pagan’ labels upon ancient non-white cultures and civilizations. The stage thus set, he turned upon his non-white victims his weapons of war,”(251). As I read those words and all of those that precede it, I tried to defend my own people and find some way to justify their cruelty and acts that can only be described as monstrous and inhumane, I realized that we had no justification for all of the sadistic things that we did and have been doing for hundreds of years at least. Even today, as I read Malcolm’s reflections on Mr. Muhammad’s techings, “... history had been ‘whitened’- when white men wrote the history books, the black man had simply been left out,” I realize that out of the perhaps hundreds of units I’ve done in American History, World History, and other basic Social Studies classes, that i have maybe done two units on black history. And even those chapters have no perspective of the people afflicted by it. I do notice a definite bias in Malcolm’s writing and I can absolutely sense the hatred in his words, however I would not call them an overreaction and absolutely not incorrect in any sense of the word.

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Not only did Malcolm's strategy of reading and copying the entire dictionary teach him to be a proficient reader, it also was the catalyst that began his entire obsession with taking down the white man. Until his hunger for knowledge begun, Malcolm had been essentially blind to his crimson history, "I never will forget how shocked I was when I began reading about slavery's total horror... the worlds most monstrous crime, the sin and blood on the white man's hands, are almost impossible to believe,"(250).  He taught himself about his history and more importantly he began to teach himself how to change the future for the black man. "My homemade education gave me, with every additional book I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America," Malcolm reflects as he explains all the wonderful horrors that reading opened his eyes to. So, in conclusion, as Malcolm discovered the wonderful world that books opened to him, he also discovered his history.

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The ways in which Malcolm learned to read are extraordinary for obvious reasons. In addition to being deprived of a formal education past elementary age, he also had to become his own teacher. This included developing his own methods of learning, acquiring the necessary supplies and basic knowledge of such, and finally being his own motivator to further his knowledge. His motivation at first was simply to be able to follow a conversation and understand more than just the most basic words possible, "I became increasingly frustrated at not being able to express what I wanted to convey in the letters that I wrote... trying to write simple English, I not only wasn't articulate, I wasn't even functional,"(245). His first instinct to remedy the situation was to pick up a dictionary and begin learning at least some words. He did this only to find that he didn't know which words would be valuable so he sat down and copied the entire first page of the dictionary, "I woke the next morning, thinking about those words,"(246). "I was so fascinated I went on- I copied the dictionary's next page. And the same experience came when I studied that. With every succeeding page, I also learned of people and places and events from history," explains Malcolm as his hunger for knowledge begins to grow. So, he went on to copy and for the most part memorize the entire dictionary. That's pretty unique. In addition to the way that he learned: being self-taught and reading the ENTIRE dictionary, the circumstances and habitat in which he learned are ridiculously unique. The habitat I speak of is a prison. This is where the ridiculousness comes into play; not only was the prison what facilitated his ability to become such a studious reader, but it was also his motivation. He explains how no other facility, including the best university could have provided such an optimal environment in which he could study as aggressively as he did than a prison, "No university would ask any student to devour literature as I did when this new world opened to me, of being able to read and understand,"(248).

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Malcom X brought up the ugliest parts of history that involve racial segregation and white people have to just take ownership of it. It is necessary to make sure that the current generation as well as the posterity do not follow in the footsteps of our ancestors

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While Malcom X was learning to read, he learned about the history of blacks and the effect that had had on the present. Through analyzing relative historical archives, he was able to see the way that black history had been advertently diminished and "whitened". Malcolm also learned about philosophy, and other aspects of history.

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When members of society are faced with the task of learning how to read, it is usually dealt with in some sort of teacher in a group setting at a young age. Malcom X was an exception. Not only did he learn to read by himself, later in his life- breaking both stereotypes- but he did so with intrinsic motivation. This man, who had been facing an unspecified number of years in prison, dedicated his entire existence for the better part his sentence actively pursuing education for the sake of education .

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While learning how to read, Malcom X also learned how to write. "It went a lot faster after so much practice helped me pick up handwriting speed" (247). Along with basic English skills, he learned about history, people and places he had never learned of before, which later led him to form his beliefs. "I also learned of people and places and events from history" (247).

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Most people learn to read starting with bits and pieces of words such as vowels and sounds, but Malcom X began with the entire words along with the definition. Instead of learning words, then punctuation, then sentence types, Malcom X learned it all at once by reading a dictionary rather than sitting in a classroom. "I copied into my tablet everything printed on that first page, down to the punctuation marks" (246).

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Malcolm's process of learning differed from that of a normal person, because he was living in a prison. The only book high in vocabulary was the dictionary. So he started to write the pages of the dictionary and read the definitions out loud.

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While teaching himself how to read, Malcolm developed excellent penmanship skills by constantly copying down the dictionary.

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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.

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One of the tenants of history is that it is written by the victors, and any viewpoint opposing theirs is left out of the records. This phenomenon has erased pieces of history throughout many eras, and is particularly evident with regard to African and African-American history. I obviously feel the guilt of an unnecessary discrimination of the past, but I also feel a sense of mourning for the vast amounts of history that were lost to prejudice and imperialism.

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Reading about how blacks were treated made me feel guilty because my relatives were people who also treated them like that. He talks about genetics and how "if you started with a black man, a white man could be produced; but starting with a white man, you never could produce a black man-because the white gene is recessive"(249) White men could not be here if it was not for black men and we do not praise them for that, instead we beat them and make them suffer. It disturbs me how any human could treat another like that.

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Reading about how blacks were treated made me feel guilty because my relatives were people who also treated them like that. He talks about genetics and how "if you started with a black man, a white man could be produced; but starting with a white man, you never could produce a black man-because the white gene is recessive"(249) White men could not be here if it was not for black men and we do not praise them for that, instead we beat them and make them suffer. It disturbs me how any human could treat another like that.

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Malcolm X learned punctuation while learning to read "I copied... everything... down to the punctuation marks"(246). His handwriting also improved, as he remarks that "I read my own handwriting"(246). The most important thing Malcolm learned, however, was not any grammatical rules: it was his history and heritage. "W.E.B DuBois gave me a glimpse into the black people's history..."(249).

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Typically, people learn to read in a classroom environment, starting with small words and simple sentences and working their way up to the more complex pieces. Malcolm, however, started by throwing himself right into the deep end, "I spent two days rifling uncertainly through the dictionary's pages"(246). He also put a greater amount of effort into learning to read than most people do when they're young, explaining that he would "study intensely as much as fifteen hours a day"(254).

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While copying down the words, definition, and punctuation from the dictionary, he also learned to write. His handwriting used to be awful but as he kept writing down the dictionary he saw improvement. He admits, "It was sad. I couldn't evenwrite in a straight line"(246) and then realizes "I read my own handwriting"(246)

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While copying down the words, definition, and punctuation from the dictionary, he also learned to write. His handwriting used to be awful but as he kept writing down the dictionary he saw improvement. He admits, "It was sad. I couldn't evenwrite in a straight line"(246) and then realizes "I read my own handwriting"(246)

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Malcolm learned to read by looking at a dictionary. He spent all his time interested in the words he never knew and it helped him learn. He says, "I believe it took me a day. Then, aloud, I read back, to myself, everything I'd written on the tablet. Over and over, aloud, to myself, I read my own handwriting."(246)

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Malcolm learned to read by looking at a dictionary. He spent all his time interested in the words he never knew and it helped him learn. He says, "I believe it took me a day. Then, aloud, I read back, to myself, everything I'd written on the tablet. Over and over, aloud, to myself, I read my own handwriting."(246)

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Throughout Malcolm’s autobiography, he made claims about the African history. These claims made me feel humiliated for what occurred in our history. Malcolm explained that, “The world’s most monstrous crime, the sin and the blood on the white man’s hands, are almost impossible to believe” (250). Hearing this, I am speechless, and sad that the African American race had to suffer through such horrific things throughout history. Learning about this history allows me to become motivated to have everyone in the world understand what happened so we, as a society can change and broaden the future thoughts of the children growing up. As I learn about the history of the races, I hope that our world can learn from this, and treat everyone with respect and equality.

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Throughout Malcolm’s process of learning how to read, he taught himself other beneficial things, like bettering his penmanship. As Malcolm copied the words from the dictionary to his tablet, “I was lucky enough enough to reason also that I should try to improve my penmanship. It was sad. I couldn’t even write in a straight line” (246). While Malcolm learned to read, his penmanship improved. Not only did his penmanship improve, but he also learned basic punctuation. These steps allowed Malcolm to expand his knowledge from bettering his penmanship to learning the meanings of each word.

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Throughout history, the way of learning to read changes. Malcolm’s way of learning to read is much different than the process of how children in our day and age learn to read. Malcolm starts the learning process, as he states, “I saw that the best thing I could do was get hold of my dictionary- to study, to learn some words” (246). He taught himself to read with the dictionary. Once he studied these words Malcolm, “... copied into his tablet everything printed on that first page, down to the punctuation marks” (246). Malcolm’s process was to study the dictionary, and copy these words. Dissimilar to Malcolm, the average person would learn to read by starting with the alphabet. After studying each letter, the person will then read simple children's books. This process differs from Malcolm's, because not only did he teach himself, but he also started with a dictionary.

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Malcom's claims about African history made me sick. I do believe that throughout humans time here on Earth, history has been somewhat "whitened". Even from my youth history classes, the information about the African Americans had been kept to a minimum until I had grown older. It rings true that "the history of the Negro had been covered in one paragraph"(248). Malcom explains that Toynbee wrote "that Africa was the only continent that produced no history"(250). This statement makes my blood boil, what knowledge does any person have to say there's been no history of any place or person? Each second of every day adds to new history, new memories and new experiences. Our whole lives we are lied to and told half truths about our country and the world as a whole. As kids we wouldn't know anything unless someone else wanted us to, and now that we are older we can take it upon ourselves to learn the truth.

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In addition to gaining the knowledge of words and reading, Malcom obtained other useful skills as well. Along with copying every word from the dictionary he included everything, "down to the punctuation marks"(246). Not only did he now have a broad vocabulary, but an idea of how to properly use the words as well. To start, Malcom's handwriting was below par, "I couldn't even write in a straight line"(246). However, after copying the dictionary repeatedly, "It went a lot faster after so much practice helped me to pick up handwriting speed"(247). Malcom is now able to clearly and accurately use and explain his vocabulary and readings.

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Often in todays day and age people learn to read by using the alphabet, root words, vowels and games. However, the approach used by Malcom is one of individuality. After struggling with comprehending books, "I saw the best thing I could do was get hold of a dictionary"(246). Malcom began copying the words of the dictionary onto his tablet. After each day he studied the words and continued the following day. He started with the A's and B's until it grew into the whole dictionary, "during the rest of my time in prison I would guess I wrote a million words"(247). Unlike most, Malcom took it upon himself to learn independently and without teaching.

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Honestly, when I read about Malcolm's findings on African history, I couldn't feel anything but shame and sorrow for that part of hstory that he read. When he came across the teachings of Mr. Muhamund he said, "wen white men had written history books, the black mahad simply been left out." (pg. 248) That isn't how people, black or white should learn history, it's like being lied to, it's just wrong.

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Along with reading Malcolm also taught himself a lot of useful things along with knowing the meaning to the words. He learned that along with reading he saw people's ideas and learned history right from the source and also View points from others. Malcolm says, "Available on the prison library's shelves were books on just about every subject."(pg. 247) Malcolm not only was limited to one certain subject t or genre he had a wide variety that taught him lots about history, people, and even stuff about himself.

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Malcolm's way of learning how to read is quite irregular from most modern people today. Most people look at pictures and try to base the meaning of the picture to the words. Unlike Malcolm, he learned how to read without any idea what pictures to help guide him to the real words. Instead of picking up a picture book, he picked up a dictionary and began from the roots of not only what word he was reading but what it meant. He says, "I saw that the best thing I could do was get ahold of a dictionary- to study, to learn some words." (Pg 246) His style of learning to read is not only unified to how most people learn to read, but it also gave him a deeper meaning and almost more advanced way on knowing the words and what they mean.

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The typical way people learn to read is either from their parents at a young age or at school, again at a young age. Malcolm, on the other hand, learned to read in a very different fashion. He learned to read by copying "into my tablet everything printed on that first page," (246). The typical person begins reading with simple fiction stories, designed for beginning readers. Malcolm skipped straight to non-fiction, and began reading immediately from a dictionary. Moreover, Malcolm had no one to help him along the way, he taught himself, while the usual approach is to learn from someone who can already read. These striking differences highlight the wayward path that Malcolm took on his journey to political activism.

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When hearing Malcolm's views on African history, I felt ashamed and sad that such important parts of history had been overlooked. When discussing Mr. Muhammad's views, Malcolm says "when white men had written history books, the black man simply had been left out. Mr. Muhammad couldn't have said anything that would have struck me much harder," (248). When reading this portion of the essay, it reminded me of how in history classes we have discussed how our books are written very much from the standpoint of Europeans, and how we often don't like to remember the mistakes made by the European sect of Americans as much. I feel that the horrible chapters of American history have started to be discussed more in schools, but when taking some history classes the teacher still has to add more information to the textbook's content in order to include other significant actions taken by non-Europeans as a whole. I also felt incredibly ashamed and mortified when Malcolm brought up countless examples of how African people and all people of color had been abused by Europeans. While giving these examples, Malcolm says, "Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world's black... peoples every variety of the sufferings of exploitation," (251). This statement was painfully proven by an awful amount of examples. This made me feel incredibly small and guilty because people who shared my race and religion were so horrible to people who were different. I realized even more fully how terrible everything has been for so many people in the past, just because of being close minded and self righteous.

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Malcolm taught himself multiple things while learning to read, the first being improving his penmanship. When discussing how he learned to read, Malcolm says, "I was lucky enough to reason also that I should try to improve my penmanship... It was both ideas together that moved me to request a dictionary along with some tablets and pencils..." (246). Malcolm chose to copy everything down to learn what the words meant as well as to improve his handwriting.

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Malcolm had a very individual approach for learning to read. He chose to learn all the words in the dictionary so he would be able to understand the books he was reading. When discussing how he started learning, Malcolm states, "...I copied into my tablet everything printed on that first page...Then, aloud, I read back, to myself, everything I'd written in the tablet," (246). Malcolm chose to learn how to read by learning the meanings of as many word as he could. This is different in many ways because he chose to learn the meaning of words at their source, all at once, rather than gradually building up to it as most students do. His learning style was also different because he was entirely self-motivated, and determined to be able to understand all that books had to offer. When discussing the start of his "prison studies" (246), Malcolm says, "...when Bimbi first made me feel envy of is stock of knowledge... and I had tried to emulate him," (246). Malcolm's desire to learn and be knowledgeable motivated him to learn how to read, which is not typical of most early readers.

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The claims Malcolm X made about African history made me horrified and ashamed. Malcolm X mentioned how Arnold Toynbee had "written that Africa was the only continent that produced no history" (250) which is completely untrue as Africa has probably produced more history than most other continents. Malcolm X also mentions the atrocities that were committed by white people to many different races and groups around the world. X wrote, "...I read about the histories of various nations... to how the whole world's white man had indeed acted like devils, pillaging and raping and bleeding and draining the whole world's non-white people" (250-251). He also says, "...more eloquent than those books were in providing indisputable proof that the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man" (251-252).

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While teaching himself how to read, Malcolm X also taught himself proper penmanship and printing. He states, "I was lucky enough o reason that I should try to improve my penmanship. It was sad. I couldn't even write in a straight line" (246).

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Malcolm X learned to read differently than most people because he taught himself to read in prison by copying down an entire dictionary and reading it continuously to himself.

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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.

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Malcolm's claims made me feel like I, as a white male, did something wrong. Although this is not the case. His comments dug deep to me and made me feel ashamed. "Four Hundred years of black blood and sweat invested here in America, and the white man still has the black man begging"(254). When I read this quote from the excerpt and I thought about todays world. African Americans still don't have the same Civil or Human rights as any other person in the world.

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He also learned how to properly punctuate, as well as handwrite much neater and quicker.

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He also learned how to properly punctuate, as well as handwrite much neater and quicker.

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Malcolm's process of learning differed from that of a normal person, because he was living in a prison. The only book high in vocabulary was the dictionary. So he started to write the pages of the dictionary and read the definitions out loud. 

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Malcolm's process of learning differed from that of a normal person, because he was living in a prison. The only book high in vocabulary was the dictionary. So he started to write the pages of the dictionary and read the definitions out loud. 

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His claims about the African and whites histroy made me feel ashamed for the white people who were so discriminating. "Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world's black,  brown, red and yellow peoples every variety of sufferings of exploitation"(251). The blacks were treated so poorly and the history that Malcolm explained hits the the roots of a persons emotions.

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His claims about the African and whites histroy made me feel ashamed for the white people who were so discriminating. "Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world's black,  brown, red and yellow peoples every variety of sufferings of exploitation"(251). The blacks were treated so poorly and the history that Malcolm explained hits the the roots of a persons emotions.

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He also taught himself how to write and print punctuation marks. Malcolm says, "In my slow painstaking, ragged handwriting, I copied into my tablet everything printed o the first page, down to the punctuation marks" (246). After all of the practice Malcolm also said," ...so much practice helped me to pick up my handwriting speed"(247).

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He also taught himself how to write and print punctuation marks. Malcolm says, "In my slow painstaking, ragged handwriting, I copied into my tablet everything printed o the first page, down to the punctuation marks" (246). After all of the practice Malcolm also said," ...so much practice helped me to pick up my handwriting speed"(247).

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Malcolm taught himself to read by using a dictionary . He would re-write the dictionary on his own and read the words over and over.  Malcolm says," Finally just to start some action, I began coping"(246).

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Malcolm taught himself to read by using a dictionary . He would re-write the dictionary on his own and read the words over and over.  Malcolm says," Finally just to start some action, I began coping"(246).