Malcom X was very light skinned based on that photo. O’s mom was white. Would O’s skin color be lighter? They look a lot like each other.
From Wikipedia:
Earl Little was dark-skinned and born in Georgia.[18] Earl’s second wife was Louise, with whom he had seven children, of whom Malcolm was the fourth.
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Louise Little had been born in Grenada. Her father was Scottish and she was so light-skinned that she could have passed for white. Malcolm inherited his light complexion from his mother and grandfather. Initially he felt his light skin was a status symbol, but he later said he “hated every drop of that white rapist’s blood that is in me.”
X looks to me like a white parent or grand parent.