Post Three, Chapter Eleven & Twelve.

In Chapter 11, Malcolm wants to expand his vocabulary and starts rewriting the dictionary, starting with the word "aardvark." Then he develops a system of beliefs for africans. He learns that the first men was african, great Western storyteller Aesop is African. The horror of slavery and the bold Nat turner and John Brown impacted him the most. Malcolm started going to debate program which introduce him to public speaking. He revoted the rest of his life to telling the white about himself or die trying (ironic). Reginald is suspended from the Nation of Islam because he got catch with a secretary. Malcolm has a vision of Elijah Muhammed and feels a stronger bond with Elijah Muhammed.  Reginald goes insane and Malcolm thinks its because of Allah punishing him for his sins.  Malcolm becomes closed to his faith then his family. Malcolm begins to follow his fellow prisoners.





In Chapter 12, August 1952, the prison released Malcolm on parole. He moved in with Wilfred, Wilfred took custody of malcolm. Malcolm gets so excited about his first temple meeting. In Chicago Elijah Muhammed publicly liken Malcolm to the biblical figure job. Malcolm is eager to work to attract new member in Detroit. Elijah Muhammed wants Malcolm to court young people. He decides that he is going to replace his last name with an "X" to represent the Africans that got slave names by their masters. Malcolm begins talking at Temple meetings. Elijah Muhammed appoints Malcolm to the assistant minister at Detroit temple. Malcolm learns a lot about Elijah Muhammed and his past. It reminded him a lot of him.

Post Two, Chapter Nine & Ten.

In Chapter Nine, after all the things that happened in Harlem, Malcolm tries to relax and let it go. But ends up sleeping, smoking marijuana, and playing records all day. But then he runs into doing cocaine again. Malcolm gets close to Sophia while her husband is away. Shortey begins seeing a seventeen year old girl, who happened to be Sophia's sister. Malcolm begins hustling again, with himself, Shortey, Ruby, Sophia, and her sister. They all do burglary ring. Sophia and her sister pretend to be salespeople and ask for a tour of their home. They look around and see what they want, then at night Malcolm and Shortey go in and take exactly that. Ruby is their get away driver. Then one day Malcolm decides to walk up to a white man who is talking to Sophia and her sister and blows her cover. Malcolm gets arrest at a pawn shop but he doesn't get charged with burglary but with the nature of his relationship with the women instead. He got ten years in jail.




In Chapter Ten, In the Massachusetts state prison Malcolm was having drug withdrawals and he got himself in to solitary confinement and they called him "Satan." Malcolm meets Bimbi, he's gained the respect of the guards and the inmates as well. He stops thinking so much about hustling and more like a human being. He starts going to the library although it is very small. He likes to read arguments because it channels his rage. They moved him to Norfolk Prison Colony where there is less violence and inmates may study. Malcolm reads subjects like history, religion, literature, biology, and linguistics. This is when he gets into the Nation of Islam and stops eating pork. His brother Reginald tells him more about Islam and their leader Elijah Muhammed. They say that all white men are devils. Then he thinks back to all the white people he's had contact with the white people who split up this family, the teacher who discouraged him. All the white people have done him harm not good. Malcolm accepts the Nation of Islam. Malcolm began to write to Elijah Muhammed everyday and prayed.

Post One, Chapter Seven & Eight.

In Chapter Seven, Shorty is trying to get his band going and malcolm runs into Malcolm X. When Malcolm saw Sofia it was a lot less discreet because Sofia got married. Malcolm gets summons by the draft board but Malcolm got evaded. The railroad company permanently blacklisted Malcolm because malcolm walked up to a gambler during a card game and pulled out a gun and pointed it at the man. That was a down fall for Malcolm because he started robbing places, and also started trafficking guns. He started using harder drugs, primarily cocaine, to prepare for jobs. Then, Malcolm's brother, Reginald, moves in with him in Harlem. But later in this chapter Sammy and Malcolm duel it out because Malcolm hit one of Sammy's woman. Sammy pulls out a gun and threadens to kill him but they work it out. Then Malcolm starts increasingly depanding on Reginald.

In Chapter Eight, Malcolm can't find a job so he starts doing really oldd jobs. Malcolm started transports betting slips for the numbers lottery system. Then, after six months of that he starts working as a gambling parlor. Then, as a madam, steering white people from downtown to elaborate sexual fantasies can be fulfilled. Then, he was accused of robbing a craps game run by Italian racketeers. He Then begins importing bootlegged liquor from Long Island for Jewish businessman. By the end of the book the cops, the Italian racketeers, the hustler Malcolm has just punched, and the West Indian Archie are all out to get Malcolm's blood. But then Shorty Shows up.

What If..

If I could live anywhere and any way I wanted, I would... Live up Maine.

 I lived in Stonington, Maine its about five hours away from here.The reason is because its peaceful and away from a City. I don't like cities, traffic, or tourists. I absolutely love living in a small town and the only way to get here is over a big, long bridge. To achieve this I would have to move up Maine but first I'd have to find a job up there. Which would be hard because 70 percent of the people who live up there are lobsterman. I mean I could because my boyfriends a lobsterman but I don't think he'd want to move up there.  

If I could be anything I wanted, I would... be a Paramedic.

I've always wanted to be a paramedic because i love helping people. The only thing is whats going to make it hard to become a paramedic for me is my reading disabilaty. But I'm on my way there. I'm going to go to YCCC and get my basic class. Next year I'm going to take EMT basic. I'm either going to SMCC or UNE after YCCC. I determined to do this because I've wanted to do it since i was a little feller.

If I could do anything I wanted, whatever I wanted, I would... Buy a Clydesdale.

I'd love to have a Clydesdale horse because I don't have a horse of my own but if i did i'd buy a Clydesdale so that I could ride it when and where ever i want. But i'd need alot of money and a place to keep it and a trailer to hold it in. 

Malcolm X Quote.

Quote: "I had never tatsted a sip of liquor, never even smoked a cigaratte, and here I saw little black children, ten and twelve years old, shooting crabs, playing cards, fighting, getting grown-ups to put a penny or a nickel on their number for them, things like that."

          This quote is definitely been before Malcolm X started hanging out with Shorty and working as a shoeshiner. Malcolm was so use to Lansing and The whole Boston scene and he never know that playing cards and playing the number was okay at such a young age. He had just been introduce to a lifestyle that he had never seen before.

Quote: "It hadn't taken me long on the job to find out that Freddie had done less sheshining and towel-hustling than selling liquor and reefers, and putting white "John" in touch with Negro whores.."

        This quote means that Freddie is a hustler and instead of doing his job, he'd rather live the exciting life and be a hustler. But I'm sure Malcolm X looked up to Freddie because Malcolm didn't want to be a shoeshiner. But at the same time it makes it look easy to become a hustler, so Malcolm has that in the back of his head.

Quote: " This was my really big step towards self-degradation: when I endured all off that pain, literally burning my flesh to have it look like a white man's hair. I joined that multitude of Negro men and women in America who are brainwashed into believing that black people are "inferior" - and white people "superior" - that they will even violate and mutilate their God-creared bodies to try to lokk "pretty" by white stadards."

This is a true quote pretty much all the black people are brainwashed to think they are inferior because of the white people. Back than if black stepped out of line white would be right there and wouldn't have a problem putting them in Jail.

Malcolm X terms

a man's suit with baggy, tight-cuffed, sometimes high-waisted trousers and an oversized jacket with exaggeratedly broad, padded shoulders and wide lapels, often worn with suspenders and a long watch chain and first popularized in the early 1940s. After Malcolm met shorty he started wearing the zoot suit.

 traditional black American cookery, which originated in the rural South, consisting of such foods as chitterlings, pig knuckles, turnip greens, and cornbread. In the book, this is what Malcolm's mother would make soul food for her family.

This is what was worn in the 1940's. Conk is the hair style Malcolm X wear in the book.

The Lindy Hop is a dance based on the popular Charleston and named for Charles Lindbergh's Atlantic crossing in 1927. It evolved in Harlem, New York City in the 1920s and '30s and originally evolved with the jazz music of that time. The Lindy Hop is Malcolm's favorite dance.

2010 Elections

Yesterday was the 2010 elections, i voted for the first time. It was pretty exciting. I'm glad that Paul LePage because thats who i voted for.
I read an article on  elections and it said that LePage got 38% of the votes. Elliot Cutler got 37% of the votes. Libby Mitchell got 19% of the votes. Right now the Republican are ahead of the Democrates.