National Review, December 14th, 1992
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM, often heard in the months leading up to the release of Spike Lee's movie, has paired Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in a kind of good cop/bad cop formulation. King, it's said, preached love, integration, and nonviolence; Malcolm X preached hate, separatism, and violence. If the country doesn't wise up and achieve equality as-King proposed, the wisdom goes, then blacks will follow Malcolm X's directive and do it "by any means necessary." Sometimes, especially more recently, the convention is altered to hold that the country has already failed to take Kinds way and t...
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