Quickly becoming an over-exposed statement, like “The Mother of all...”
True.
I only wonder whether Wright conflated the quote with the white guy Peck during the original 2001 sermon in order to not be seen directly quoting Malcolm X. Or whether it is current 2008 spin for the same purpose.
It all rides on the parsing of the sentence, and it looks like he's pulled off the spin with the whole world watching, and not even the conservative talking heads noticed it.