chapotraphouse

Malcolm X is still labelled things that the average American finds distasteful, like radical or extremist. I don't think the average American (outside of black people) has a high opinion of him, including leftish liberals. I don't think he'll ever truly be rehabilitated in the standard American ideology like MLK. He's always gonna be polarizing like John Brown or, I don't know, Harvey Milk.

Part of his life he was a black separatist, and after that he'd continue to call for reparations for black people.

He was also incredibly cool and good and recommended black people get guns to shoot cops. When he got drafted for WW2 he told the army recruiter that he was gonna use his military assignment to organize black soldiers to "kill crackers" which is just too powerful. The man was too strong. He didn't have any illusions that black people would be able to fully integrate with American society under the current establishment. He correctly understood it's a racist, genocidal empire from top to bottom and he didn't spare any words to describe it as such.

The only people I've ever heard talking about Malcolm X in positive terms are black people and leftists who already might admire Lenin, Castro, Mao, etc. White liberals call him a racist, conservatives call him a terrorist, and leftist liberal progressives call him complicated.