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Malcolm X's criticism of white liberals during the Civil Rights Movement, arguing they posed as friends while perpetuating systems of racial control
Yes — Malcolm X repeatedly criticized "white liberals" in his speeches and writings; a commonly cited line is "The white liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the Black man," a ...
Malcolm X’s critique of “the white liberal” was a pointed political and moral indictment: he argued that self-styled white liberals pose a particular danger because they present themselves as allies w...
Historians generally portray Malcolm X in the mid-1960s as a figure in transition: while earlier identified with racial separatism and blunt critique of white America and white allies, by 1964–65 his ...
Martin Luther King Jr. and other mainstream civil-rights leaders regarded Malcolm X as a powerful critic whose blistering critique of “white liberals” exposed real hypocrisies, yet they disagreed with...