“Learning To Read” from Malcolm X, is an autobiography surrounding his life and inspiration to read and fight for justice for the African American culture. He was first inspired to learn to read in prison when he found one of the inmates, Bimbi, was able to control much of the conversations due to his huge base of knowledge. For Malcolm X, uncovering his ancestor’s past and discovering the truth of his origins was one of the important pieces for bringing justice to the African American culture in America. For so long, he was led to believe that African American history could be summed up within a paragraph in a U.S history book. While many other people wrote that “Africa was the only continent that produced no history”, however, this only brought to light the truth of how the white man really was in history. For me, I was dismayed at first at how ignorant Americans can be to other cultures, yet I understood everything Malcolm X was saying when he described the white men as hypocrites. …show more content…
That was the first step. He was reading many of Mr. Muhammad’s teachings and began to realize that whites had taken over history and dominated it, while the rest of the world was left small sections of history books. This is where Malcolm’s search desire to learn more about African American history began. To me, everything Malcolm X described only made it more obvious and frustrating that whites had taken over history and suppressed the rest of the world, while placing themselves on a pedestal. Every culture should be looked at with fresh eyes and no judgment, every culture has a different past and history that other people cannot judge it for until they’ve stepped back and looked at their own