Reading Response Malcom X-Ana

Part A: I didn’t get to print it out but I read it online and still wrote notes on my notebook. I’ll make sure to print it before class, sorry.

Part B : “ If I weren’t out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity-because you can hardly mention anything I’m not curious about. I don’t think anybody every got more out of going to prison than I did. In fact, prison enabled me to study far more intensively than I would have if my life had gone differently and I had attended some college. I imagine that one of my biggest troubles with college is there are too many distractions, too much panty raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all that. Where else but In prison could I have attacked my ignorance by being able to study intensely sometimes as much as fifteen hours a day”.

If he wasn’t spending so much time needing to fight the white people, he talks about being able to spend it reading some more to learn new things because there is always something new he would love to learn. He believes he got more out of being in prison than the average person. He feels as tho prison helped him in a way to study more than he could have at a college. He believes all the distractions such as women would have been what held him back from even being able to learn everything he has in prison. Malcom states there is no other place like prison to study intensely how he did because in a way there’s nothing but time there.