Wasn't this a scene in Malcolm X?

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I feel like I may have asked this before in passing in another thread some time ago. Sorry if that’s so. I feel like I remember a scene in Malcolm X in which a young white woman smilingly asks Malcolm X what she can do to help, and he replies with something along the lines of a simple “Stay out of our way.”

Is that a scene in the film?

I would love to have it in clip form if such exists online.

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I recall that scene in the movie too. I don’t know where it might exist in clip form, but I am fairly sure it was in the movie.

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In the movie,

WHITE WOMAN: Excuse me, Mr. X, I’ve read some of your speeches and I honestly believe that a lot of what you have to say is true. I’m a good person in spite of what my ancestors did. And I wanted to ask you, what can a white person like myself, who isn’t prejudiced, what can I do to help you and further the cause?

MALCOLM: Nothing.
This was based on a real incident, though the words are changed from the version recounted in The Autobiography. In the book, after his pilgrimage, Malcolm reflected on this very moment and said he had been wrong to dismiss her.

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I don’t see any active clips of the scene around, but here’s a book that quotes the book’s account of the real incident, with some context.

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Hereis the scene in the movie

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Thanks, I had just come in to say I’d found it too. :slight_smile: