document, it says something about the former and current state of African America", but added a warning about its provenance. The text contains numerous anachronisms, including words and phrases such as "refueling" and "fool proof" which were not in use until the early 20th century, while historian Roy Rosenzweig noted the divisions emphasized in the text – skin color, age, and gender – are distinctly 20th-century in nature, making little sense in an 18th-century context. As such, historians – including Rosenzweig and William Jelani Cobb – regard the William Lynch speech as a hoax. William Lynch Forewords attached to some online versions of the speech credit the narrator's name as the source of the terms "lynching" and "Lynch law", despite the narrator specifically advocating against lynching. A man named William Lynch did indeed claim to have originated the term during the American Revolutionary War, but he was born in 1742, thirty years after the alleged delivery of the speech. A document published in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1836 that proposed William Lynch as the originator of "lynch law" may have been a hoax perpetrated by Edgar Allan Poe. A better documented early use of the term "Lynch law" comes from Charles Lynch, a Virginia justice of the peace and militia officer during the American Revolution. Popular references Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan quoted the speech at the Million Man March in October 1995, making the speech better known in the process. He later cited Willie Lynch's scheme as an obstacle to unite African Americans in his open letter regarding the Millions More Movement in 2005. The speech was quoted during the protests surrounding the first inauguration of George W. Bush. Ving Rhames's character in the 2005 movie Animal is gangster who is sent up for a robbery. During his time in prison he meets an activist from Malcolm X's movement, who introduces him to the works of Malcolm X and the William Lynch letter. After deciding to get out of that mindset, he struggles to pull his son out of the same life that got him two prison strikes and tries to get his son to read the Lynch letter. Denzel Washington's character quoted extensively from the speech in a scene from the 2007 movie The Great Debaters. This is an anachronism, as the movie is set in the 1930s, nearly 40 years before the letter was "discovered".