He was the man who embraced the Nation of Islam, whose signature at the time was a denunciation of whites as blue-eyed devils.
In the Sixties, as a converted Black Muslim, he vilified white people as blond, blue-eyed devils.
And unlike those blue-eyed European devils who are ranting all over Kyoto these days, they aren't scared to death of any idea that might be at odds with their own.
Ali has even officially renounced his "blue-eyed devils" period when he was a so-called Black Muslim.
"Every time Malcolm X talked about 'blue-eyed devils' Quayle should think he's talking about him."
Pressed by Russert on whether he agreed with Elijah Muhammad's preaching that whites are "blue-eyed devils", Farrakhan responded:
For me, my 'X' replaced the white slavemaster name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed upon my paternal forebears.
I never heard expressions like blue-eyed devils or pigs.
Cohen stayed calm during the episode, even when, according to a New York Times article reporting on the event, one student called her a "blue-eyed devil."
I know for sure Warner Brothers is trying to stress the Malcolm after Mecca, when he stopped calling white folk blue-eyed mutant devils.