Question 8 How was Malcolm X critical of Martin Luther King Jr.? He didn't like that he used his background as a preacher to bring religion into the movement when religion had nothing to do with the black struggle In his eyes, MLK was approaching the issue very naively; he only addressed problems that affected blacks in the South, and not in the whole country MLK was using his influence to promote the image of cowardly black men and normalized white violence He wasn't critical-- he just wished that MLK would listen to alternative methods of achieving the same goal

He didn't like that he used his background as a preacher to bring religion into the movement when religion had nothing to do with the black struggle

In his eyes, MLK was approaching the issue very naively; he only addressed problems that affected blacks in the South, and not in the whole country

MLK was using his influence to promote the image of cowardly black men and normalized white violence

He wasn't critical-- he just wished that MLK would listen to alternative methods of achieving the same goal