years Malcolm tirelessly preached to his black brother and sisters to free themselves from whites psychologically, to not be after somebody else's approval but to be after their own approval.
             A short while after came the first of many steps towards self-degradation. At the time, black men would "conk," or relax their hair so that it became straight and limp like a white man's. The process of getting a conk required that you burned your scalp essentially to make sure it's as straight as can be. In his own words: "I had joined that multitude of Negro men and women in America who are brainwashed into believing that the black people are "inferior"-and white people are "superior"-that they will even violate and mutilate their God-created bodies to try to look "pretty" by white standards." (Page 56-57)
             At the same time, one doesn't stab others in the back and justify it by saying that they are raising themselves above. "This is still one of the black man's troubles today
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