Going into the chapter "Mecca", Malcolm had previously been, in America, only exposed to whites being cruel and not kind or generous at all. Because of his past experiences, he had been in the Nation of Islam and elsewhere, trying to show black Americans that the white man was "the devil", and giving examples of how white people were evil and horrible as people. Clearly, he believed that all whites were horrible people, as he stated many times.
However, when he travels to Mecca in the chapter, he realized that there was a flaw in his understanding in regard to the way white people could act towards other people, including people of other races. In Mecca, he realized that whites could be kind, generous, and friendly, like any other person of any other race. This sudden realization made Malcolm undergo a huge physical, emotional, and mental change, but he did so with amazing, almost alarming ease. How could Malcolm, someone who had for most of his life believed that white people were evil and terrible, change his views to almost the complete opposite in such a brief period of time with so much ease both mentally and physically?
Malcolm was able to adapt so well because after seeing so many acts of brotherly love between whites and people of other races in Mecca, united under the "Oneness of God", he could use his religion to guide him into a new set of views easily and without very much trouble.
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