Did that incident really happen or was it just some dramatic license from the 1992 Spike Lee film? I've read the Alex Haley book and don't recall it being mentioned in "The Autobiography of Malcolm X".
It is in the book. In fact, Malcolm X regretted saying it, and was “evolving” on his views of whites after he took a Hajj and met “good” Muslims who were blond haired and blue eyed. He discovered that Elijah Mohammed was a fraud who was sleeping with anything he could get his paws on, and wasn’t living the life of a “true” Muslim. I think this is why he was assassinatd, in fact, because he wasn’t useful to the Black Muslim movement anymore, and indeed was a threat to expose the hypocrisy.