The President and Malcolm X

President Obama has been quoted that the autobiography of Malcolm X resonated with him. Here is the actual quote.

Only Malcolm X’s autobiography seemed to offer something different. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me. The blunt poetry of his words. His unadorned insistence on respect. He promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline.

That is high praise from a man who is quite a wordsmith himself. Lets examine some of the quotes in that book. Our first quote is short, but seems to be the Obama playbook.

By any means necessary.

The second quote worries me even more.

You will never get real freedom and recognition between black and white people in this country without destroying the country, without destroying the present political system, without destroying the present economic system, without rewriting the entire constitution. It will be a complete destruction of everything that America supposedly stands for.

Any questions about what is really going on?