1) Do you think that the gulf between whites and blacks is so wide, that the only way their differences can be reconciled is by complete social, political, economic, and geographic separation?
2) How would you determine who was 'white' and who was 'black'? Would you do DNA tests? What would be the percentage threshold for determining which state an individual would belong to? If you had 20% or greater African American heritage, would you be considered black? Would you determine a person's race by their skin colour? What if a person who physically appeared white was determined to have predominantly black heritage? What about mixed race individuals?
3) What about whites and blacks who belong to each other's families: i.e. a black woman who married a white man and vice versa; black parents who had adopted white children? White parents with mixed race children from a previous marriage?
4) How would you allocate land? Would you cordon off three or four states and allocate them to African Americans? What about the white people that already live there? Would there be a mass migration of people, of whites to 'white' country, and blacks to 'black' country, reminiscent of the partition of India into separate states for Muslims and Hindus in 1947?
5) Would it be voluntary? Would you force blacks to emigrate if they did not so wish? Would you force whites to emigrate if they did not so wish? What penalty would you enforce for any breach of segregation?
6) Do you think segregation would solve all issues? Do you think there would not still remain criminals, thugs and sociopaths in the 'white' state, as there would in the 'black' state? Do you not think evil transcends race and skin colour, and that both are capable of oppression and iniquity?
7) Do you not think that, as a response to race riots, segregation is a laughable, far-fetched solution? The problem was not that whites and blacks cannot live in peace, it is that a few despotic individuals misused their authority to enact a monstrous racial attack, and that the ensuing protests were infiltrated by saboteurs and provocateurs for violent and nefarious political ends.
8) You have fallen prey to identity politics and race fatalism in advocating segregation. You appear to think that blacks have a peculiar social and cultural weltanschauung and way of being that makes their intermingling with society a ticking time bomb, waiting to go off; that it is only a matter of time before blacks turn against whites.
9) It is disingenuous to invoke Malcolm X in your argument for segregation. Do you know much about Malcolm X, that great, visionary man whose words you have appropriated? The interview you have presented was recorded in 1963. After leaving the Nation of Islam in 1964 Malcolm's thinking on the matter changed. He traveled to Arabia to perform the pilgrimage and saw there that light-skinned Caucasians and dark-skinned Africans performed pilgrimage together, shoulder to shoulder, in reverence of One God. He traveled across Senegal, Morocco, Sudan, Egypt talking at universities and meeting with leaders, and began to reconsider his adherence to Black nationalism:
Although he no longer called for the separation of black people from white people, Malcolm X continued to advocate black nationalism, which he defined as self-determination for the African-American community.[281] In the last months of his life, however, Malcolm X began to reconsider his support for black nationalism after meeting northern African revolutionaries who, to all appearances, were white.[282]
After his Hajj, Malcolm X articulated a view of white people and racism that represented a deep change from the philosophy he had supported as a minister of the Nation of Islam. In a famous letter from Mecca, he wrote that his experiences with white people during his pilgrimage convinced him to "rearrange" his thinking about race and "toss aside some of [his] previous conclusions".[283] In a conversation with Gordon Parks, two days before his assassination, Malcolm said:
[L]istening to leaders like Nasser, Ben Bella, and Nkrumah awakened me to the dangers of racism. I realized racism isn't just a black and white problem. It's brought bloodbaths to about every nation on earth at one time or another.
Brother, remember the time that white college girls came into the restaurant—the one who wanted to help the [Black] Muslims and the whites get together—and I told her there wasn't a ghost of a chance and she went away crying? Well, I've lived to regret that incident. In many parts of the African continent, I saw white students helping black people. Something like this kills a lot of argument. I did many things as a [Black] Muslim that I'm sorry for now. I was a zombie then—like all [Black] Muslims—I was hypnotized, pointed in a certain direction and told to march. Well, I guess a man's entitled to make a fool of himself if he's ready to pay the cost. It cost me 12 years.
That was a bad scene, brother. The sickness and madness of those days—I'm glad to be free of them.
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10) All men are equal in the sight of God. No dark-skinned man is superior to a light-skinned man, and no light-skinned man is superior to a dark-skinned man. God judges based upon deeds.
God does not look at the strength of your bodies nor the beauty of your forms; He only looks at your inward and outward actions.
