ABSTRACT
Malcolm X articulated Black rage in a manner unprecedented in American history. Malcolm X was the prophet of Black rage primarily because of his great love for Black people. His love was neither abstract nor ephemeral. Rather, it represented a concrete connection with a degraded and devalued people in need of psychic conversion. Malcolm X's notion of psychic conversion holds that Black people must no longer view themselves through white lenses. Malcolm X was the first great Black spokesperson who looked ferocious white racism in the eye, did not blink and lived long enough to tell America the truth about this glaring hypocrisy in a bold and defiant manner. Unlike Elijah Muhammad and Martin Luther King, Jr., he did not live long enough to forge his own distinctive ideas and ways of channeling Black rage in constructive channels to change American society.
