1. Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael focus on American foreign policy as well as domestic issues, and each suggests that a global perspective in which white people are the minority is necessary to see the “American scene” objectively. How does this perspective alter our understanding of our country? To what extent would our authors agree that America’s international problems a product of the same failure to understand human rights as our domestic problems are?
2.Carmichael’s speech answers the question “whether or not a man can condemn himself” (30). Can a person condemn him or herself according to Carmichael? Why is this key assumption so important to his argument? To what extent would Malcolm X agree? What does this tell us about how both men understand the mentality of the white majority and the extent to which the white community is capable of change?
