Unlike older black leaders, I don't want black unity.
It is no longer 1983, and the shouts of black unity are more like faint pleas.
"But the difference between the national anti-apartheid movements and our liberation is the lack of black unity," he said.
He also made a strong call for black unity, an apparent attempt on his part to end feuding between black factions.
He pleads with them to be part of black unity, to break entirely with any organization run by white men.
This promoted the idea of black cultural unity as a distinct national identity.
Towers and steam were a unity, black against the light background.
His blunt speech raised the first hope here in years that authentic black unity could be achieved in the struggle against apartheid.
Politicians could talk about black brown unity, but that was jive.
They also say that for all his talk of black unity, he was woefully late in sharing his plans with most of Harlem.