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Malcolm X

Malcolm X. Sacred discontent?. Chronology. Early life: born 1925 Father killed in 1931 Mother institutionalized in 1937 Went to Boston ca. 1940, then NY in 1943 Prison (1946-52) Converted to Nation of Islam in 1948 Minister for Nation of Islam (1953-64) Broke from Nation (1964)

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Malcolm X

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  1. Malcolm X Sacred discontent?

  2. Chronology • Early life: born 1925 • Father killed in 1931 • Mother institutionalized in 1937 • Went to Boston ca. 1940, then NY in 1943 • Prison (1946-52) • Converted to Nation of Islam in 1948 • Minister for Nation of Islam (1953-64) • Broke from Nation (1964) • Hajj to Mecca (1964) • Assassinated 1965

  3. Compare to MLK • Lived 1929-68 • 1948: graduated from Morehouse College • 1951: received M.Div. from seminary • 1953: accepted first pastoral position

  4. Questions • How and why does Malcolm critique Christianity? • How does the Nation of Islam promote justice, according to Malcolm? • Why does Malcolm embrace global Islam and reject the Nation of Islam? • How does global Islam develop Malcolm’s beliefs about race and justice?

  5. Critique of Christianity • Why do people different from Malcolm (Anglos, African American Christians) want to hear his critique? • Doctrines vs. deeds • Unity in Christ vs. • Support for status quo • Enculturation: How was Christianity adapted to Euro-American culture? • Visual imagery • Role of experience in theology • Religion always requires contemporary interpretation

  6. Justice • What is Malcolm’s vision of justice? • Cone’s words: strict, stern • Biblical basis “Lex talionis” • How does this compare to MLK?

  7. Global (authentic) Islam • Why did Malcolm embrace Islam? • How does he describe its vision of justice and race? • Why, according to him, does it provide the solution? • What is the grounding within Islam for promoting racial equality? • Quran 49:13: “O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other).” • History

  8. Martin and Malcolm: Correctives? • What is the difference between a corrective and a complement? • Cone: in context of white oppression of blacks for 400 years in America, the idea that God is black is “a necessary corrective against the powers of domination” (160). • How is Malcolm X a corrective to MLK? • How is MLK a corrective to Malcolm X?

  9. “Faith doing justice” • Jesuit principle, esp. in their universities • How do Malcolm’s and Martin’s approaches to justice suggest: • A “sacred discontent” (Davita’s Harp) • A course of action • A critique of action • What place should nonviolence have? • Cone’s conclusion: what remains to be done, for those who in faith seek justice?

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