Malcolm X

So far, Malcolm has led a very uneventful life. The most interesting part of the book so far was that he decided to dump his African American girlfriend for some random white girl. This is interesting because it was considered taboo for the two races to mix. It is also interesting to look at the contrast within the African American class. The Hill Negroes consider themselves to be better than the regular African Americans living in Boston. This is interesting because the only thing that this will do is create more racism for blacks. The blacks needed to come together as an entire population to end the racism and bigotry, which means that it was prolonged by the fact that there was a schism within their own race. Other than these two interesting tidbits, the story has been very boring. Malcolm has not done much with his life, and seems to be involved with the wrong group of people. I think that he needs to find a new set of friends if he wants to be successful. One final piece of information is the idea of the "conk". I do not understand this. I just can not comprehend why an African American would want to look like a white person. Do they really want to look like their oppressors? It does not make much sense to me at all, why they would do this.