Introducing The Tenth Lieutenant

The autobiography of Malcolm X is recommended reading in academic circles  from grade school to college, and it is sure to feature in the reading lists of Black  Studies Departments across the country. It is a gripping expose of how religion  can bring about radical change in an individual’s life, and how the cruel realities  of racism in America and harsh racial rhetoric it engendered in response can be  transcended to encourage tolerance for differences that exist within the human  community. This, without sacrificing the fight for equality and justice was  Malcolm X’s terminal position.  Malcolm X was known for calling a spade a spade. In so doing, he  established a public platform constantly at odds with a system that perpetuated  many of the flagrant as well as the more subtle wrong doings of a white racist  society. Even now, racism is so engrained that the need for the struggle…