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Clarence X

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Malcolm X's Rancorism

"I was being consumed by the circumstances in which I found myself. Circumstances that I saw as responding only to race," he says. "Race became like a substitute religion." He left the church, left the South altogether disillusioned by his grandfather's approach of quiet dignity. In college, there was an air of excitement, apprehension, and anger,. And searched for a way to make sense of a cruel world.

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