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Compare and contrast: Hair by Malcolm X and English B by Langston Hughes

After reading both Hair by Malcolm X and Enlish B by Langston Hughes I found that they were both focussing on the topic of racism. Their ways of approach was different but still both of them gave the same message. Malcolm X shows how racism made him feel inferior to others, he criticizes racism and states that all the human beings were created by god as equal and no one question it. Langston Hughes approaches racism differently. He does not criticize it but rather tries to tell how they were not different and why they are a part of each other. These are two different ways in which both Malcolm X and Langston Hughes try to give the same message which is "everyone is equal and how racism destroys people.

Hair by Malcolm X

After reading the memoir a couple of times I came to the conclusion that Malcolm X alters the tone at the end of the memoir because at that point he talks about how a black person's mind is affected by all the white people around them. He says it in a way that shows that he is ashamed of himself and that he feels like he had become like the other black people who thought white people were superior. Also Shorty who conked Malcolm's hair seemed to be another one of those people who accepted that blacks are inferior. This shows that the people around him were not believers of equality so it was almost imposible for him to have been a believer of equality at that time. Although later on he says how stupid he was but he probably wants to show the readers that questioning your equality to other people was wrong and that the very thought that blacks were inferior was wrong.
Knowing more about his life certainly changed the way I looked at the memoir. Looking at how being a black affected his life made me realize that he had been a victim of racism and thats why he had wanted to change and become a white. We can clearly see that in the last two paragraphs of the memoir Malcolm X changes his tone and tells the reader how stupid he was. He probably does this so the readers can understand that he was a subject to racism and had been forced to think that blacks were inferior and white were superior and that other black people should never make the same mistake. Looking at his biography it is easy to say that he lost almost everything because that he was black and therefore should have hard feelings for the white which I think is the purpose of this memoir, to show people that thinking black people are inferior is wrong.