When it was started, it was for men. Rich, white, land-owning men. Then it was
             for poor men. Then their white wives. Today, it is for everyone who has ever had
             to suffer oppression of any sort. It is for anyone who is willing to work for it. And
             some who don't even give that much. When the United States as we know it was
             formed, it was created as a place to be free, not the land of oppression that it became
             later on. In 1776, when the founding fathers, bellies full of the food that the
             founding mothers cooked and in the house that they kept tidy, penned the famous
             document known simply as "The Declaration of Independence". It was a message
             to their oppressors, the governing body of their mother country, Great Britain. It
             said, in a simple but eloquent way, that it was over. They wanted a divorce and
             they're keeping the house. They were Geniuses and Visionaries. Heroes and Role
             200 years later, in a more modern time, amidst the turmoil of the aftermath of
             two devastating wars and in a country that was looking forward to testing its wings
             as a complex society, a few more founding fathers sprung up. They may have been
             200 years late, but the message they brought was timed all too well. Names like
             King, Newton and the enigma and simplicity of X, were on the tips of everybody's
             tongue. The nation who once sought freedom from baseless oppression thought to
             be ridiculous and unnecessary was now the oppressor of a people with different
             backgrounds who wanted nothing more than their fair share, or in some cases, their
             America. The African-American people wanted to be treated more American than
             African. When the young man known to many as Malcolm or simply X told his
             people that it was time to take a stand and to break the same chains that had once
             held those who founded this country, he had few sympathizers and he wasn't seen as
             the Hero, Visionary, or Role Model that ...