In the chapter Mecca Malcolm receives a new outlook on the white man as well as the evil of racism in America. He receives this outlook when a man named Dr.Abd-Al-Rahman Azzam, whom Malcolm states would've been considered white in America, treats him with hospitality and kindness knowing that Malcolm has nothing to give back. From this experience he realizes that all this time he's been a "racist" and an "anti-white" and "reappraises" the "white man." He also realizes that the problem with racism is not the "white man" but racism itself and believes that the cure for this evil is Islam. From seeing a rainbow of races and cultures united under one god, Malcolm figures that the same god can reunite white people and African Americans.
And yet in the second to last paragraph of the chapter Mascot, Malcolm states,"...I would today probably be among some city's professional black bourgeoisie, sipping cocktails and palming myself off as a community spokesman for and leader of the suffering black masses, while my primary concern would be to grab a few more crumbs from the groaning board of the two-faced whites with whom they're begging to 'integrate'", and yet he walked among st what could have been considered as "black bourgeoisie" in Boston, has the influence and popularity of a community spokesman, not to mention breaking the fourth wall in this statement meaning it was made possibly while writing this book with Alex Haley which is after his visit to Mecca and is still calling white people two faced after his apparent change of mind, and lastly is wishing for integration. Why did he make this statement after his change of mind in Mecca? Could it possibly be that perhaps another incident more impacting than the one with Dr. Azzam occurred which might have changed his view of the white man back?
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