We wouldn't have wanted Malcolm X for a boyfriend. Not just because he's shy, but it seems that he has a very particular view of women. Oh, and by the way, who proposes over the phone? It's obvious that Malcolm is not a romantic. He obviously just doesn't want to say that it was love at first sight. Yeah, he wasn't paying much attention to her except he was totally stalking her and knows everything about her entire life. She lectured to the Muslim girls' and women's classes on hygiene and medical facts.

She was in New York at one of the big hospitals' school of nursing. I knew she was a native of Detroit, and that she had been a student at Tuskegee Institute down in Alabama-an education major. She was tall, brown-skinned-darker than I was. In fact, probably you couldn't have convinced her I even knew her name. You know, she never would have dreamed I was even thinking about her. For about the next year, I just noticed her. I just noticed her, not with the slightest interest, you understand. This sister-well, in 1956, she joined Temple Seven. Honestly, when we were reading Malcolm's description of how he met his wife, we thought we were reading a letter by a six-year-old boy. Moving along, here comes the last lady in Malcolm's romantic life. We guess, according to Malcolm, that's all that's important to know about her. Shoulder-length hair, well built, and her clothes had cost somebody plenty. And this one, standing there, eyeing me, was almost too fine to believe. Now at that time, in Roxbury, in any black ghetto in America, to have a white woman who wasn't a known, common whore was-for the average black man, at least-a status symbol of the first order. Most of what we know about Sophia is that she appears right after Laura's dance with Malcolm, she's rich, and she's pretty.

She does great and it's obvious that she hopes it will get her closer to Malcolm and earn her some cool points, but he drops her for the next lady on the list. Eventually the two of them get to talking, and she is lured into dancing the Lindy Hop with him in front of everyone. In other words, she's the complete opposite of the hoodlum Malcolm is at that age.Įvery time Malcolm sees her, her face is buried in some book.

Malcolm says: 'She had never been touched, I'm certain she hadn't, or even had a drink, and she wouldn't even have known what a reefer was' (4.26). Laura is a nerdy goody two shoes from the nice part of town. While Ella is an exception, these other three women exemplify Malcolm X's approach to women throughout the book, and it's not a nice one. For a book about equal rights for minorities, the way that Malcolm X's autobiography deals with women sure seems backwards.

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