There are more ways in which they are the same than ways in which they are not. And unfortunately they are the same in the most important and devastating ways - their messages of supremacy and hatred are what have left the greatest legacy in their respective communities.
No, Richard Spencer is the son of a rich family and is preaching hate about groups of people that are beneath him. He is the oppressor spreading hateful propaganda about the oppressed
Malcolm X is a man who preached hate about the people oppressing him and his people who later came to realize that we were all brothers during a time when blacks were still being beaten and murdered by whites.
And you can look up to both MLK and Malcolm X. They are two different people, you dont have to choose between one or the other.
Malcom X changing his tune in the last chunk of his life doesn't change what he believed and taught for the vast majority of his life. It seems that you're clinging to his last moments way too much.
It also doesn't matter if they're rich or poor or if their family members were killed. I mean, it matters in the sense that it's important. But it doesn't change that they are literally saying the same things about their own race and other races, except with black and white interchanged.
But they weren't on equal footing. That actually does make it different. Not okay, but one is more understandable to the other. ---
