This section explores issues that involve minorities in general. It is not intended to address specific minorities . This presentation assumes that all minorities share certain characteristics. It does not matter whether we are talking about the relationship between the Protestants and the Catholics in Northern Ireland or the relationship between the Chinese and the Moslems in Malaysia.
Economic inequality is the major common characteristic of all minority groups .
Many civil rights leaders have ultimately come to embrace economic injustice as the crucial issue. Malcolm X Malcolm X, a spokesman for Afro-American causes during the early 1960s, began his political career with absolute hatred for white people. He had good grounds to do so based on the discrimination he experienced during his early life. Ultimately, however, Malcolm X came to embrace economic issues as more significant that race issues. After a trip to Mecca, where he discovered whites praying to his god, he came back to the United States proclaiming a new philosophy.