Though X was accurately able to explain how and why others were brainwashed, he does not believe he was brainwashed after he converted to the Nation of Islam. “They prided themselves on being incomparably more “cultured”, “cultivated”, “dignified,” and better off than their black brethren down in the ghetto, which was no further away than you could throw a rock” is how he explained the Hill Negro (40). Being a Hill Negro was associated with one’s attempt to conform to the white man’s society, to be cultured or more educated, and to live in a lavish neighborhood on the hill in order to illustrate supremacy; thus, as an attempt to replicate the white man due to self-hatred. Consequently, Malcolm X never gave the individual Negro the benefit of the doubt that one simply wanted a better life for one’s family.
Earlier in the autobiography, X learned a life