Hiya. I've always sort of wondered about this; X was around in a time of severe racism towards blacks (ie jim crow), but his views towards the whites from what I've learned are quite racist themselves.
I honestly don't know enough about him to know if he generalised all whites as being the 'white devil'.
I know he fought against the whole inequality thing but was his ultimate goal inequality ie no whites?
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As I recall from history class he was proudly racist early on but after going on the Hajj and getting exposure to cultures all around the world he started to mellow. Of course he died like a year later so there wasn't much time for that to have an effect.
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If we go by "X" the movie, which afaik was fairly accurate, his trip to Mecca, where he worshiped with people of all races, was hugely transformative in his opinion of whites and racial integration.
Also, there is a line where a white girl asks him what she, as a non-racist white person can do to help his cause, to which X says "nothing", sort of indicates that he was only preaching against white establishment and not individual white people.
The problem is, X was alive in a time where all the establishment was essentially "white". To fight the battle he was fighting, some aknowledgement of this would have been necessary, and in a way, that does make him "anti-white", but only in so far as whites controlled the systems that legitimately work to oppress black people. We could probably call this "racism" in a philosophical sense, but I think there is very little evidence that this extended to X's opinion of white people in general.
There are good interviews of him on youtube, where he seems to have little problem discussing with white people, though his confrontational nature does come out.
The concept of race as a divisor dates back at least to Ancient Egypt, maybe even earlier.
Yasuke, the first black man to ever live in Japan was executed after being captured by the enemies of his Lord, Oda Nobunaga on the grounds that they believed him to be an animal. We're talking about Japan prior to any meaningful contact with white cultures. IE: white people have no monopoly on racism.
What you seem to be doing here is simplifying racism to apply only to White Supremacy, specifically the Nordic variety.
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