9/16/09

During his time in jail Malcolm X was sent to a new prison, Concord Prison, where it was much nicer and the guards were less abusive. It had more visiting hours and a huge library with a wide variety of books that was left by an old doctor who had passed away. When his brother Reginald came to visit him one day he explained to him the religion of Islam and talked about how the "white man" was actually a "devil race" that had raped, killed, and pillaged the "original black man". His sister Hilda also came telling him that the white man had kidnapped the black man and brought him to America and had brainwashed him into thinking that the black man was inferior and that he should try to be more and more like the black man. This got Malcolm thinking about his whole life and how he felt he was brainwashed by the white man and his idea. This got me thinking about how the media seems to be trying to influence younger people to believe what they believe.