Malcolm X rejected civil rights gains as non-progress because they restored nothing new

Evidence

One year earlier, Malcolm X had stood before a meeting of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) at a Methodist church in Cleveland. “How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours?” he asked, speaking of the Civil Rights Act, which was making its way through Congress at the time. “You haven’t even made progress, if what’s being given to you, you should have had already. That’s not progress.” Malcolm X and others remained skeptical of all the progress rhetoric. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1283

Categorization

• XREF: Malcolm X’s ‘not progress’ logic parallels the reader’s deviation-vs-design framework: restoring what one already deserves is not progress but repair. — connects to: Malcolm X demanded equality before any reconciliation with whites