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Here we go. I may have been inaccurate withOkay. I stand corrected.
Should've made it clear I was quoting,
(rather paraphrasing), spike lee's x.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechmalcolmxpressconference.html
where X made the following remarks, however the premise
is still that same nonetheless:
A Declaration of Independence
Malcolm X
March 12, 1964
(excerpt)
"....The Muslim Mosque, Inc., will remain wide open for ideas and financial aid from all quarters. Whites can help us, but they can’t join us. There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity. There can be no workers’ solidarity until there is first some racial solidarity. We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves. One can’t unite bananas with scattered leaves.
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/a-declaration-of-independence/