The White "devil" post #1

For the past chapters, all Malcolm really has done is rant about how bad and evil white people are, but i'm sure that i'm not the only person who thinks that's a very general and unfair stereotype, even for those times. The idea that ALL white people are evil is actually a really outrageous theory. Blacks can't generalize and blame every single white person for the suffering their ancestors went through. And then when the Nation of Islam presented that notion to the american population, the american's reaction was only natural. After all, if any race of people call you the devil, of course you are going to go on the defence. and why wouldn't you? They are insulting you and your race. Of course you are going to try to deny it, then try to deal with it when that doesn't work. But then again, the blacks did have an understandable reason to have so much anger towards the white race for abusing their ancestors, but their reaction to the whites' reaction was pretty ridiculous. No matter how the white people reacted to this idea, the black muslims would have found a reason to use that to further back up their religon. The main reason i disagree with white people being devils is that, ok, the muslims ranted and preached and argued and degrated the white people, but what were they going to get out of it? Sure, a couple more black supporters, but my point is that how would calling their neighbors devils ultimately turn out good? It only made whites even more wary and doubtful of black people. They wanted to achieve separation. Not segregation, but separation. How did they think they were going to acheive a separation of races? Both blacks and whites were living in the same place! America! Where were they going to go? Did they actually think that they could completely separate the lives of black people and white people who lived in the same place? To me it doesn't make much sense. But that's propably because i don't know the details about the Nation of Islam and their beliefs. If they could convince a smart guy like Malcolm X that this is true, then there must be some logical explantion, but still, it seems like an outrageous idea to me.
I understand exactly how black people felt against the whites because being part Armenian and growing up in a very much Armenian integrated surrounding, i have a similar attitude towards turkish people. All throughout history, and especially during the 1800s and early 1900s the Turks had continually abusing Armenians, massacring, oppressing, and degrading them. In the late 1800s, Abdul Hamid, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire committed a major massacre of the defenseless Armenian villages in his empire. Then the main genocide occured in 1915, when the Young Turk organization massacred 1.5 million Armenians, with the intention of completely oblitering the Armenian race. This website presents a summary of the genocide http://www.gendercide.org/case_armenia.html. Up till this day, almost 100 years later, Turkey fervently denies ever committing the genocide, even with very compelling evidence, disturbing pictures, survivor stories etc. out in the open. Armenian attitude towards the Turks is very similar, yet quite different to the black's attitude towards the whites. But an explaination for that could fill a book.