The Power of Symbols

Today we looked at the power of symbols around us: some were on cars; some were on every day items; and X turned up on a tee shirt. Turns out the tee shirt was for the movie about Malcolm X, the black nationalist leader of the 1960's. He chose the last name X to represent the fact that he did not know his real name. As the descendant of slaves all he knew was his slave name. X was a symbol for a great unknown in his life. For more about Malcolm X please click the link to the right.