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After Malcolm was put in jail, he began to follow Elijah Muhammad and the Islamic religion. Mr. Muhammad wanted Malcolm to become a recruiter and recruit black people into the Islamic religion so that their religion could be spread and well-known throughout the black societies. This was a trouble that Malcolm had to overcome because whenever he tried to recruit people, they would not listen to him. Malcolm said, "It angered me that only now and then would one display even a little curiosity about the teachings that would resurrect the black man (203)." This troubled Malcolm in the first place because he felt so strongly about Mr. Muhammad's teachings and he wanted others to share the experience with him.  Most of them would not follow because they were followers of the Christian religion. Malcolm said at a lecture," ... this blue-eyed devil has twisted his Christianity, to keep his foot on our backs... to keep our eyes fixed on the pie in the sky and heaven in the hereafter... while he enjoys his heaven right here... on this earth... in this life (205)." Malcolm tried to convince those that followed the Christian religion that they were followers of the white mans teachings when they should be staying faithful to the black man and follow the Islamic religion. 

I understand how Malcolm felt when he was trying to recruit people into his religion. I have never tried to recruit someone into a religion, but I have tried many times to recruit people into running cross country.  Our cross country team doesn't consist much of a girls team. I believe that this is because many girls are scared to run.  If you have two legs, you can run. It doesn't matter if you are slow or if you are the fastest girl in the world, just come to a practice and see if you like it. But what bothers me is that no one will even try to run and they think its too hard. Running is running, it is never too hard once you get used to it. You can even ask Christa, we always try to recruit people and they don't take the time at all to even show up and see what we are all about. 

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This is just an example of how this woman, Kelly, tried to recruit people into using her products.