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World-wide Nationalism
Malcolm X advocated black nationalism - an ideology that encourages African Americans to live separate from white society. He was critical of the desire of many civil rights leaders for racial integration, arguing that whites would never accept African Americans as equals. He also believed that integration represented a rejection of black culture and an adoption of white values and white culture. "The white man has brainwashed the so-called Negro to the point of believing white supremacy so much so that today some Negroes think that they are not making progress or that they don't have anything unless they have a white man's neighborhood, a seat in the white man's school, or a position in a white man's job." - Teacher's Domain
Pan-nationalism, or world nationalism, is the idea that each ethnic-cultural group (joined by language, heritage and culture) deserves its own nation. Pan-nationalism suggests that no nationalist can afford to work only for his or her own tribe, but must realize that all tribes are joined in the same quest: to bring about a nationalist order on earth. Our enemy is not each other. Our enemy is the system of "modern society" that exploits us. Our goal is to re-structure modern society to keep its good aspects (technology) and weed out its destructive aspects. This is achieved by putting culture before commerce in every nation on earth, and our method of reaching this is Pan-Nationalism.
It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream; you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it'll put you to sleep. This is what they did with the march on Washington. They joined it. They didn't integrate it; they infiltrated it. They joined it, became a part of it, took it over. And as they took it over, it lost its militancy. - Malcolm X