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...pieces that focus more closely on Malcolm X himself are equally revealing. Cornel West's essay on "Malcolm X and Black Rage" deals with the transformative, freeing anger so central to Malcolm's thought and his electrifying oratory style. For West, Malcolm articulated outrage at "the sheer absurdity that confronts human beings of African descent in this country--the incessant assaults on Black intelligence, beauty, character and possibility." With his trademark eloquence, West elucidates how that rage served to perform a "Black psychic conversion," a defiant re-evaluation of the self that is free of American racist values. West argues...
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...just recently that my mind finally caught up to my body. Although I am loathe to admit it, I think that Harvard intimidated me to the point that I lost some of my identity and forgot my sister's advice (via Teddy Roosevelt). I remember reading Julian Barnes' essay in the pre-frosh materials, and I marveled at the time that the President of the Crimson had been afraid to speak up in section as a first-year. Such timidity is reserved for regular guys like...
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