Racism and all behavior that spawns from it make a large portion of our country's history book. Slaves from Africa were the hands that built this country originally. We kept African slaves as prisoners, treated them like a lesser species, and this behavior was universally accepted at one point. Even after Lincoln abolished slavery in 1863, hatred for the black race went unchecked until the 1950's and 60's. The long-awaited cessation was finally realized, in most part, due to the rise of two men who decided stand up and organize in order to tell the country that they were people on this planet, whose life is just as important as anyone's. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were black rights activists who, despite their extreme difference in method, fought to be heard and treated as fairly as they deserved to be. I suppose you could say that they were two sides of the same spectrum.
             Any who have had an interest in Eastern philosophy understands the meaning of the Yin Yang. The Yin, or the bad, is represented by the color black. It is matched by the Yang, or the good represented by the color white, and is completely symmetrical to its counterpart. The opposite colors and locking symmetrical shapes signify the balance that allows the world and everything in it to exist, creating the ultimate cause. Without bad, there can be no good. Without the night, we would never know of day. The small circles within each half of the design symbolize the minor existence of one within the other, forever balancing the forces. In Ancient China, this was used as general principle to understanding the world, but it can be seen in much more specific cases, such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
             Although Martin King and Malcolm X fought with the same goal in mind, their theories of approach were oppositely different. In general terms, Malcolm X was much more violent with his "by any means necessary" a...