Malcolm X's life, as much as I would like to deny it, has a striking congruency with some Nietzschean principles. Going from Malcolm Little to Malcolm X to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, the man most famously known as Malcolm X experienced similar metamorphoses found within Nietzsche's path to overman. Malcolm X willed himself to overcome all prejudices and become great. In addition, Malcolm X used many of the new ideas Nietzsche brought to conventional wisdom. Though all this seems to make Malcolm X comparable to Nietzsche it is only partially true.
When we look at Malcolm Little, we see t…
