Jan Carew's Ghosts In Our Blood

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The book Ghosts in Our Blood, describes how Malcolm traveled around the world and met with Jan Carew during the last year of his political life. Malcolm made more speeches in America and around the world, to join all the African people around the world to fight for freedom. Malcolm distanced himself with his family while he is with Elijah Mohamed and his ideologies. Malcolm cannot stand anymore dividing the black nation and he chose to break with Elijah Mohamed. However, Malcolm came back to his community and stood with black people while he attained more experience the different cultures and faiths. Malcolm traveled to Mecca, Africa, and London, where he met with black immigrants. Malcolm shared a discussion with Oxford University and later …show more content…
Is the god’s truth, what he did say that he was a marked man and some folks high up in Yankee land passed a death sentence ‘pon’ in” (5). The author describes that the organization who killed Malcolm was more powerful than Elijah Muhammad and black Muslims. At Malcolm’s funeral, his body was wrapped in traditional white clothes which a Muslim funeral requires. The author defines Malcolm as a “religious man and he does not fool around” (p 16). Carew also describes other ways that Malcolm practiced Islam. After Malcolm adopted the Islamic rule of marriage, he did not like to look other women other than his …show more content…
Malcolm’s father gets killed and his mother supported her children and later the government forced her into a mental health hospital. Malcolm was not with his family since he was friends with Elijah Mohamed. That time Malcolm was believed what Elijah taught him and he was distant with his family and friends. After he distanced himself with Elijah Mohamed, then Malcolm went back to his family, friends and showed respect for his fellow black people in America. Malcolm understood how the rest of the world believed about black American’s life, which was based on what the U.S. government wanted the world to believe. The government said that black Americans were treated well and had equal rights. In order to correct this, lie, Malcolm spoke at Oxford University and delivered another speech to the African community in