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Some might also argue that unity of white people was also necessary to fix society, but this was certainly not Malcolm X's point.

He gets his point across even more emphatically in the second half of his speech by speaking directly about the differences in approach and effect between the main leaders of the Civil Rights Movement and the grassroots participants that made up the bulk of the people demanding their rights. Specifically, he mentions the arguments that grew over the handling of finances by Martin Luther King, Jr. In respect to several different inter-related organizations following the events at Birmingham (the bus boycott and related issues), noting how the leadership seemed to be disintegrating at a moment when increased activism was most needed. Even here, he seems to suggest that the power structure of the colored leadership of the Civil Rights Movement was somehow tainted by involvement with whites, again attempting to suggest that white people are the enemy because they disrupt the unity of the movement.

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In contrast to this, Malcolm X mentions the continued action of the grassroots part of the movement even as the leadership's disputes were growing, especially proud of the way this portion of the movement "scared the white man to death, scared the white power structure in Washington, D.C. To death." Again, he is attempting to connect the idea of unity and success in regards to obtaining equal rights for people of color with the concept of a single enemy and the white power structure as a unified entity itself. Malcolm X is not simply advocating grassroots activism in this speech, but is subtly (and not-so-subtly) outlining a worldview without any shades of gray but that instead is clearly rendered (in what is an unfortunate coincidence of an English idiom) black and white. This us-versus-them mentality was meant to unify the oppressed group of people -- a noble motive with questionable means......

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