Out of respect, I go with what's appropriate and accepted, and while I totally agree with Malcolm X's thoughts on the subject, if "black" is still an ok term, I'm ok with it.

Now - if it's not, I'm all ears. But as far as I knew, it's still an acceptable term. No?

As a social organization, too.

I like that there was something organized there to bring people together and give them a structure that might have been lacking in schools or due to economically devistated communities, but in reality, there's all sorts of ugly power plays and petty dictatorships and as an experiment, I call it a failure.

Now, the Prince Hall Masons, on the other hand, is like NOI done right. But that's just my opinion.

I don't think it has to be dismissive.  I call blacks blacks without meaning anything negative.  I also call whites whites, and I'm a whites myself.