Initial response to Malcolm X and Black Rage Essay

In the essay, Cornel West tries to explain how Malcolm Xs Black Rage articulation wasnt directed at white americans only, but also to black americans who view their lives and minds through what West describes as White lenses. West also claims that Malcolm Xs idea of mental conference would promote blacks to turn that rage to love and appreciation of their own culture and self worth. Another claim West mentions is that the idea of psychic conversation struck consternation into black professionals, due to their constant surrounding of white social circles, but at the same time understand the idea on the dot for the exact same reason.West compares these kind of individuals to Du Boiss idea of double consciousness. Blacks living between their own live and whites, never settle in either, yet crave acceptance mainly from whites. West also believed that Malcolm X viewed black equality as a farfetched possibility due to the bulk of white racists, and black victims of democracy. What int erests me the most is that Malcolm X feared cultural hybridity even though he, himself, comes from a hybrid culture. But eventually Malcolm X began to slowly remove that fear after looking into the acceptance of humanity regardless of race, class, or gender in the Islamic regimes of Muslims in the Middle East.In the end of the essay, West thinks that futurity generations should take Malcolm Xs black rage and psychic conversation as an example of rejection to any sorts of inequality. I strongly agree with Wests idea to follow such examples in order to achieve change in human equality and acceptance.