He explains,” I read the histories of various nations, which opened my eyes gradually, then wider and wider, to how the whole world’s white men had indeed acted like devils, pillaging, and raping and draining the whole world’s non-white people.” Through the use of inflammatory language, he uses jarring words, such as, “devil” in referring to white men/people. His statement, generalizes an entire race of people, and is an opinion that is not factual. Although, events in which white people have detrimentally effected other races, have occurred the same could be said for any other race of people.
The issue of civil rights or human rights that Malcom X addresses towards the end of his essay, is never fully addressed in a concise way nor is the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that he states afflicted the black race in America. The only understanding that the reader gets of it, is