Elijah Muhammad was a role model to Malcolm and Elijah took Malcolm under his wing and taught him many things. After a getting out of prison, Elijah made Malcolm go to Boston to turn people into the Nation of Islam and he was able to get many people to convert to The Nation of Islam. As reward Elijah Muhammad made Malcolm a minister in a church and Malcolm Little transformed into Malcolm X because his actual last name was unknown because the white man took his ancestors and brought them to America to become slaves and to abuse them. Elijah Muhammad essentially made Malcolm X his right hand and because of Elijah Muhammad turned into a great speaker, a great debater and a great leader. Malcolm X debated many people to argue his ideas.
During a scene in the movie, the chief of police said, “Too much power for one man” as Malcolm was able to conduct a silent march in front of Harlem hospital to ensure that one of his follow brothers would receive the utmost care after being brutally beaten by police officers. What leadership style do they most often use? Do they balance the use of all styles? Malcolm X’s leadership style encompasses an array of approaches such as Trait, Skills, Style, Situational, Path-Goal, and Transformational. According to the movie, Malcolm did not possess all of these styles as once.
A sense of humor appears irrelevant but sometimes a little joke with the team can go a long way. What is your personal philosophy of leadership? The leader must be part of the team he or she is leading. Leaders have to listen to the team’s opinions and ideas and analyze the situation prior to make any decision because the leader’s decisions affect the entire team as well as each of the team members. The leader must always think about the most good for the most people while still working toward a common goal.
Malcolm once expressed to King’s wife an interest in joining the nonviolent movement. He also explained how he believed that he was doing King a favor by attacking him more than helping him in public because it would make whites choose one or the other and he knew that almost all would side with the more peaceful solution. Malcolm experienced this unexpected change in heart after he returned from his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1964. One thing that may have facilitated that was Malcolm’s being suspended from the Nation of Islam by Elijah Muhammad. “Malcolm was determined to follow a course that paralleled King’s - that is, to combine religious leadership and political action” meaning that he knew King’s methods were effective.
The Nation of Islam rejected integration, but perhaps its most controversial belief was that blacks should form a separate state of their own, free of white domination and white religious, economic, political, and cultural institutions. Malcolm X broadly studied the teachings of Elijah Muhammad. He was released from prison after serving seven years of his sentence and at that moment he took the name Malcolm X because he believed “Little” was his slave name. The “X” represents the tribal name he thought he would have received but was lost to him. Other members of the Nation of Islam followed in Malcolm’s steps and also took X as their surname.
The thing that inspired me to choose to write about Malcolm X was a movie we watched in class called “Inside Islam”. There was a small segment describing so me of the main things Malcolm X did that really interested me. After researching I was actually inspired by the struggles he faced, the things he did, and the way he went about doing them. I liked the fact that he didn’t hold back his opinions and beliefs out of fear of what others would think or do. It wasn’t about who believed or followed him, it was about what he believed.
Martin Luther King Jr.: Letter from Birmingham Jail This is a letter from Martin Luther King Jr. to the clergymen in response to their claim in a local newspaper that his protesting was “unwise and untimely.” This is an attempt to defend himself and his fellow protesters. He begins by explaining why he was in Birmingham and states that he is not an outsider. He was invited by the president of the Christian Leadership Conference to be there. [623] He stressed on the issue of injustice in this area and said he must “carry the gospel of freedom” wherever it is needed like Paul did in the Bible. He continues to say that while the protests were unfortunate, it is even more unfortunate that the black community was left with no other alternative action.
From in a cell, he jots down almost rebel like ideas, which is to be free from having a religion forced upon any single being. In this initial strategy of steering the emotions of the readers, Pane tells the readers “I believe in one God, and no more” (100), he exposes his stance but does not overly enforce his beliefs so the readers will not be subjected to them. I think that this is very important because if Pane did over insert his views then he would be going against his own teachings. Pane then goes on to talk about a few religions, discussing the problems he finds with them. I found this to be his main strategy of grabbing the reader’s attention and expressing his purpose to them.
It was quite lengthy and used very forceful language to tell congress to uphold their promises or be subject to the violence of the African-American people. Malcolm X began his speech by acknowledging that he was still a Muslim, but he quickly added that he did not intend to discuss religion or any other issues that divide African-Americans. Instead, he was going to emphasize the common experience of African-Americans of all faiths. He then says “it doesn’t mean that we’re anti-white…and degrading us.” This is powerful because while he hates white people he says right here that this isn’t a fight against white people; it’s a fight against degradation and exploitation. He then reminds them that since a lot of elections are very close the black population voting as a unified bloc had all the power.
The first article by the senator had a few things that I felt were not correct. He came up with lots of reasons for going to Iraq and how we went for the wrong reasons but he does not mention the reason we went there in the first place, which was to remove the dictator Saddam Hussein from power. Throughout the editorial the senator also seems to somewhat villainies the U.S. I don’t believe a U.S. senator should make his country that he serves look bad even though others feel that it is ok to do so. Lastly, he wants to get across the message that the U.S. is at war with Muslims and not Iraq, which I believe is completely untrue.