" Prior to colonialism, black Africans seem to have found their blackness perfectly beautiful and normal, unsurprisingly. But also, by making whiteness the colour of oppression, the colour that defined a person’s right to own other human beings, to rape and kill and steal with impunity, white
supremacists had paradoxically opened up the way for blackness to become the
colour of freedom, of revolution and of humanity. This is why it’s absurd to
compare black nationalism and white nationalism; not because black people are
inherently moral, but because the projects of the two nationalisms were entirely
different. This difference is why the black nationalist Muhammad Ali could still
risk his life, give up the prime years of his career and lose millions of dollars in
solidarity with the non-black, non-American people of Vietnam. It’s also why
Ali could show as much sympathy as he did to the white people of Ireland in their quarrels with Britain, despite him saying, somewhat rhetorically, that 'The white man is the devil’. "

― Akala , Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire