I look at it this way... When it comes to the idea you were expressing about knowledge, a quote from the bible (which i dont do often lol) fits perfectly...

"My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge."

This applies to all people, no matter who they are, but...

malcom x was one of the most inspirational people of the 20th century. his autobiography is probably one of the best written tales of overcoming hardships and ones surroundings to inspire and aspire to be better and break the chains that bound many people in society regardless of race and culture.

basically it's a story on how to be a man and how to face death as a man.

Dont know a whole lot about him. But I do know that if he was white he would be considered one racist, good for nothing sob. I guess you could say that he was the original "black supremist" which during his time would be a dangerous gig

Another victim of character assassination.

"People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book." — Malcolm X

They know now!

People don’t know that Malcolm was the inspiration for thousands of lost black men who became victims of the street culture.

His story is an American treasure.

Malcolm went to jail when he was a gangster for a long time and their educated himself, while studying the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, a controversial leader of an Islamic sect.He went from a criminal street hood to a man who later could debate with the greatest intellects in the world and hold his own and even surpasses them in intelligence.

I was inspired by this story, for I lived a very similar life. Like Malcolm, when I decided to leave the streets of one of America’s worst ghettoes, I begin the long hard road out of darkness to light, I began by educating myself by actually reading the whole dictionary, something I was inpired to do becasue Malcolm said he did that in his famous autobiography.

I, like him, read anything I could get my hands on about religion, politics, history, and other topics, that eventually initiated me in the love of knowledge and literally saved my life.

Malcolm’s story saved thousands of people like me because he inspired us to reach for greatness, through wisdom and knowledge.