Education for an Older Generation

Being tired of an older generation telling their children and grandchildren "That's good for a Black person.", or "They'll never let us do/be/have..." - I bought copies of and watched Spike Lee's Malcolm X with each of the elderly blind women I check up on and their families.
These women loved the old songs and Malcolm X's speeches.
Sure, most had heard these speeches before - but before the election of Obama, they just didn't seem to make sense.
As I watched wanna' be gangsta's slyly wiping tears from their eyes and elderly women repeating every word spoken - maybe this generation will get it.
Maybe this generation just has to be educated with the philosophies of men who may have been ahead of their time.