Why was Malcolm X so important to his time?

In actuality Malcolm X was a product of racism. unfortunate that some view Malcolm not from his stance of the pulse of the conditions of people of color. Instead some would rather look through a distorted lens that the public wanted him to be viewed from. Malcolm was the voice for many proletarians who feared speaking out about the conditions of racism,despair,drug -usage,etc; His resistance to the power structure's definition of a person of colour made him very important to those who felt no significance as human beings, while Martin Luther King Jr was soliciting for civilrights Malcolm was petitioning us and aboard about our rights to be respected as human beings.