The biggest fault I see in Malcolm X is that he excluded people of white skin such as myself from his movement. This is evident in the movie scene in which a white student asks him what she can do to help his cause, and he bluntly responds,” Nothing.” How much of the Critical Race Theory tenet number five did Malcolm X consider? The tenet states that every individual has a complex and compound identity described by inter-sectionality and anti-essentialism. X wrote off the entire white population as not being able to help his cause for equality between black and white. His reasoning that black and white communities should be split to allow both cultures to flourish before integrating them is a good argument, but regarding the entire white population as entirely unhelpful doesn’t seem like a good solution.

Later in the film after he goes to Mecca, Malcolm X is more accepting of white help. He communes with muslims of all skin colors and backgrounds and loses his mega-apprehension to anybody of Caucasian background. The film doesn’t ever show a white person in his close circle, or even really at the majority of his rallies. I wonder if he would’ve told that white student something different after he came back from Mecca, but his untimely demise cements that question in mystery.