Josh Clark

And it exposed the world to black Muslims and it really helped drive up membership.

All daughters, right?

The whole along the way.

Even twins, I think the last ones born were twin daughters.

So, yeah, you said that he wasn't really trying to make friends and he didn't care whether he ticked people off.

So the old guard, the existing guard of the Nation of Islam, who had been around long before Malcolm X came along.

Um, they were not happy with this.

They did not like to be told that they were doughy and had to diet or else they'd be suspended.

Um, but he was attracting people who were very much in line with himself.

So very quickly, as he started to build up the roles of the members of Nation of Islam, the

the philosophy and the viewpoint of that group started to shift away from the establishment that had been there up to that point to this much more radical, much more politically active version of the Nation of Islam that was the Malcolm X brand of Nation of Islam.

Yeah.

He also would do things like debate white people.

He did at Oxford.

He did at Harvard on like race relations.

He would take questions from white reporters.

All of this stuff was like not what Elijah Muhammad was was jibing with.

But Malcolm X was getting such results that Elijah Muhammad would just kind of be like, I don't want you doing that.

But then when Malcolm went ahead and did it, there wouldn't be any real consequences for it, right?

So as he's doing this, he's becoming more and more emboldened.