**Ballot or the bullet**

I found the speech " Ballot or the bullet" surprisingly interesting. It was mainly about getting the people or African Americans to join together as one.

He says that they needed to amalgamate in unity and harmony and that black nationalism is the key. Malcolm X spoke about how the blacks would move out of their own community to move into a white community to soon be left by themselves once again. Black people should own, operate, and control the economy of their community but they allowed the white man to cadge them every time. Only because black people didn't have the sense to look out for themselves. He made it clear that his speech was not based on religion because everyone was facing the same problem. They didn't hang anyone because they were Baptist, Christian, or Muslim but because they were black. In those times black people needed to aver what was politically and economically wrong. Malcolm stated that they were all living 'second class citizenship', which was nothing but 20th century slavery. Not only did Malcolm's blandishment make sense, but it was true and that's what the black people expected from a leader like him. His honesty.