What Did Malcolm Learn In Boston

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Malcolm's first encounter with academic education leaves him with a negative opinion of schooling. He is looked down upon by his teacher, merely because of the color of the skin, no matter that Malcolm was the brightest kid in the class. After he decides to leave school, his main source of education is through experience. What Malcolm learns in Boston is that the influence of white people is so intense that it affects the way that African Americans view themselves and their fellow counterparts. Interestingly, we see Malcolm describe the well-off Negroes as “Hill Negroes” and the others as “ghetto Negroes”, which seems to show that the self-image of Africans Americans are defined by the guidelines of the whites. Malcolm states “Under the pitiful

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