Don Wildman

The 20th century is when this comes to pass.

For 6,000 years, white people have been dominating this place.

We let them do it, essentially.

And now the time has changed, and we're going to deal with this now in a different sort of way.

And out of this comes this form of black nationalism, which is the Nation of Islam.

in the 20s and 30s.

This is what Malcolm X will participate in for the rest of his life, once he joins into this.

But before that happens, we have a lot of events that happen otherwise, which really lay the groundwork for him.

Out of this cauldron of a childhood and then teenage life, and his large family, which begins its own diaspora of sorts, Malcolm X ends up in trouble.

which happens to so many kids of whoever they are, you know, out of such an unstable situation.

He is a, I have to say at the top, I'm revisiting the autobiography of Malcolm X, you know, the Alex Haley book.

Malcolm X, I said to my wife, incredibly charismatic man.

The storytelling that comes out of his life in that book is remarkable.

And the explanation of where it all fit for him, the detail of those first eight chapters is remarkable recall of so many different events that happened on, you know, as he was growing up.

It's a rebellious childhood.

He ends up committing petty crimes after being discouraged by a teacher that he wanted to be a lawyer.

World War II comes along.

He does not wish to fight.

It's an interesting event.

He decides to get himself declared mentally unfit.