Malcolm X was a member of the Nation of Islam until he became disillusioned with it and left it prior to his death. So he is a bit more complex that any summary including mine. But for a period of his life he…

…advocated for black empowerment, black supremacy, and the separation of black and white Americans, and publicly criticized the mainstream civil rights movement for its emphasis on nonviolence and racial integration

But even after leaving the Nation of Islam on March 8, 1964, he went on to give this speech…

On June 28, 1964 Malcolm X spoke at the founding rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity in New York. He called for freedom, justice, and equality “by any means necessary.”

So you may be correct that much of Malcolm X’s ideology came from his association with the Nation of Islam and that in the last year of his life before being assassinated he moved away from it… but I cannot find a speech where he renounces identity politics or the use of violence to achieve equality. It is how I remember him and his speeches growing up.

I do share both his and MLK’s belief in equality and equal rights but think MLK was on the right track. When you focus on the individual and not the group, then assimilation takes place…

My interest in equal rights is one based both on personal values and the fact that two of my daughters are biracial and five of my seven grandchildren are biracial.

When Biden said you are not black if you don’t vote for me… he was being racist… his argument and that of many African American politicians that that they “own” the vote of people based on their skin color is wrong at every level and show racism is not purely a “white” problem. No one should “own” the vote of someone based on skin color.

I vote for politicians based on their policies and I was happy to see that every Republican elected in the state of California was either a minority, woman, or a veteran… not because of those things, but because they were elected based on the content of the character and not the color of their skin (or plumbing). I voted for an African American running for city council without even knowing he was African American (or caring), what I cared about was what he wrote about what he stood for…

The Democratic party needs to move away from its toxic reliance on identity politics, let’s start judging people on character…