Rodney King who reached speeds of 115 miles per hour, according to police, feared that his probation for a robbery charge would be revoked due to a traffic violation. With a troubled past involving drug use and petty crime and a current profession as a taxi driver that offered no chance of economic advancement, King was condemned to a life of oppression similar to that of Malcolm Allah. In making clear his stance on racism in America in his speeches, Malcolm said: "the white man can lynch, burn and beat the niggers, that's all right" but when a black man tries to physically defend himself from the white man he they are told "to be patient". and things are getting better” (p.484). When an unarmed black man is brutalized by the police and intends to defend himself; America provokes resistance. The victim is ridiculed and the perpetrators are praised for a job well done. When the four officers charged with assault with a deadly weapon were acquitted, there was a riot of riots that led to the deaths of more than 50 people. In Malcolm's perspective, “when the white man came to this country, he certainly wasn't demonstrating any nonviolence. He calls for peaceful coexistence. But what were the deeds of the white man”? (p.485) He accuses the black man of rebelling in a society in which he is simply trying to exist. With racial supremacy existing in the hierarchy of legislative making and law enforcement, the legal system disadvantages people of color, especially young black men. “Almost everyone in Harlem needed some sort of hustle to survive and needed to stay high somehow to forget what they had to do to survive.” (p.178) Like Malcolm on the streets of Harlem before escaping death twice in the same day, Rodney King was just trying to survive in the white man's environment.