This has been a problem for decades:

I'm suspicious of any Negro be he politician be he clergyman or civic leader who is constantly patted on the back. I have a tendency to lead toward the Negro politician who is constantly condemned by the white power structure. This is my thought pattern I'm giving you an insight of it. In other words if a black man cannot have a white man as a friend he may have a white man who's friendly but being friendly and being a friend I think are two different things.

First time I met Herbert Hill personally was when they were picketing to stop the working on the Harlem Hospital in Harlem. Negroes for 10 years had to fight the city to get an annex built on the Harlem hospital because in Harlem we need a hospital more so than anything else. Our people are sick plus we do a lot of cutting and shooting of each other (though we profess to be nonviolent) and Herbert Hill brought his forces out and stopped the working on that. This is the first time I ever saw him. Then, when work was brought to a halt on a hospital in Harlem, the same Negroes tried to stop the work at the downstate medical center in Brooklyn which is predominantly white. They were out there for three months during the summer...couldn't stop anything and I never saw him. But he'll be out there on time now whatever something takes a stoppage of something that's going to affect the white man. You find the white liberal absent when it involves something that primarily will affect the best interests of black people, and black people only, then that white liberal is [absent]. President Herbert Hill is the labor secretary for the NAACP and if he was interested in black people he would prepare a black man with the type of knowledge and understanding of the labor troubles involving black people that would enable a black man to sit in the same position as secretary of labor or labor secretary NAACP.

I'm suspicious of whites who joined Negroes and always have to be in the lead, who always have to be the head, who always have to be at the top in Negro organizations. Those whites who really have the interest of blacks at heart give some advice to some Negroes and stand on the sidelines but don't join the organization and then get at the head of it and pose as a friend of Negroes.

-Malik el-Shabazz,

Interview at UC Berkeley

October 11, 1963

Full interview here.

White people, even so-called "allies," always have to be in charge. They can't undo their white supremacist brainworms, even when trying to be anti-racist. They tackle racism from the perspective of the White Savior, who knows better than anyone, rather than attacking racism in pursuit of true equality.