Saturday, February 7, 2009

Malcolm X (interesting quote)

"Whenever our team walked into another school's gym for the dance, with me among them, I could feel the freeze" (Haley 31).
This quote was shocking to me.  The others schools were so unaccustomed to African Americans, that a whole room would freeze when he walked in.  They were in disbelief that an African American was in there school.  In todays day in age we don't even think twice when a African American walks into the room. We even have an African American president.  Things have changed a lot since Malcolm was a kid.  America has come a long way when it comes to integration and equal rights.

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