GARVEY GARVEY GARVEY RISE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was 1920 ... and then there arose a man, Marcus Mosiah Garvey. A black mind of reason ... a mind unafraid. A mind unimpressed by the white man and his bloody exploits. A mind that saw truth. And for the first time in three hundred years, the black man saw a faint glimmer of light in his darkness. The message Garvey preached was simple, to the white man it read: Out of Africa; to the black man he said, Back to Africa ... Africa for the black man at home and abroad - let the Continent be black from Cape to Cairo.Marcus Mosiah Garvey would travel the world to every nation where the black man continued his long sojourn, caught in vicious mind trap from which he could not break free. The black man had long forgotten his right to be Repatriated, and retained only the vaguest memory of the 100 year old Declaration of Emancipation -the terms of which had never been met. Only the shackles had been removed from the black man‘s feet, but his status as the white man‘s servant, continued unaltered and unchanged. He was still governed by the white man‘s hand, and his land remained in the white man‘s grasp. Marcus Mosiah Garvey lambasted the black man‘s apathy toward his lot, and sought to remind him of his history, his truth and the magnificence of his heritage. Marcus Garvey was responsible for publishing a newspaper, which he called THE BLACKMAN, and in one edition he had this to say:Nationhood is the strongest security of any people ... With the clamor of other peoples for a similar purpose, we raise a noise even to high heaven for the admission of the Negro into the plan of autonomy. On every side we hear the cry of white supremacy - in America, Canada,Australia ... without the desire to harm anyone the Universal Negro Improvement Association feels that the Negro should without compromise or apology appeal to the same spirit of racial pride and love as the great white race is doing for its own preservation, so that while others are raising the cry of a white America, a white Canada, a white Australia, we also without reservation raise a cry of a Black Africa.Marcus Mosiah Garvey was both hated and feared by the white man. He was harassed,hounded and finally imprisoned when with contributions from millions of like-minded black peoples throughout Africa, the Americas,Europe and the West Indies - he acquired sea going vessels (The Star Line), and with thousands of the black peoples, prepared to depart for the Continent of Africa and home. The white man could not sit still in the face of this action which threatened the very core of his whole existence and authority. The white man could not afford to loose a valuable and superior labor force, and worse, he could not allow the black man to repossess the continent, which was the source of his wealth and well-being.Accordingly, Garvey was charged with mail fraud - soliciting funds through the mail - and on June 17, 1923 he was incarcerated in Tombs Prison in the United States of America ... and the ships were impounded.The black man‘s attempts to escape his tortured exile in the lands of the white strangers, ended in frustration. But Marcus Mosiah Garvey had awakened reason, and brought a new ovastanding to several million among the black man who, without chains about their feet, recognized still their captive status. The white man was fully cognizant of the inherent danger in Garvey‘s teachings. The white man recognized that to a poor and dispossessed black people condemned to live on the periphery of existence, the lure of self-worth and achievement promised in a black Africa, might prove too strong for the white man to contain. The white man in his wisdom therefore, determined that the black man should be provided a palliative in the illusion, at least, of progress and well-being ... and a very small share, in a very large cake.So, over time, the white man sought out the most ineffectual and most insecure among the black man; the black man who longed to know the company and favor of his white overlords; the black man who harbored ambitions of being like unto the white man. And to these men of ambitions opportunities were given. These black men of ambitionswere gradually afforded more and better advantages; they were very gradually given more coins of the realm, and fraternizing with the less favored and more common among their brethren was discouraged - after all, said the white man, you are different! These black men were placed in positions that elevated them above the ordinary mass of their own people. They were fawned upon and flattered, and encouraged to make impotent asses of themselves, by believing and behaving as if they were more one with the white man, than with their own ordinary black brother. In time, they would be allowed to send their children to the schools reserved for the white mans children. Soon they were allowed credit, and loans to purchase their modest homes, and hire-purchase to fill it with things. And these black men were held aloft for all the world to see that the black man was indeed free.The masses, who would not be accommodated at the ‘top’, were then easily dismissed as being simply shiftless and lazy. Now, more than ever before, the black man of ambitions needed to be seen as different; and so he openly despised and shunned the company of his less favored black brethren, who the white man said - and who therefore were -simplyshiftless and lazy. Armed with his bright new coins of the realm, and the favor of the white man, the black man of ambitions affected an Ovastanding and an appreciation of all tings white. He liked what the white man liked, and he mistrusted what the white man mistrusted. The white man naturally had neither patience with, nor tolerance of those whom he chose to regard as ignorant troublemakers, namely, the black man who defended his right to be returned to his homeland. And the black man of dubious color and origin shared the resentment felt by his colonial masters’, and was vocal in his condemnation of all those who espoused such troublesome truths. He had achieved the impossible, the black man had become white ... in all but color. His coins of the realm had bought him a very dubious salvation! So the black nation was divided, and the white man ruled. And the black man born and bred on the white man‘s slave islands, for many generations would sing proudly, in solemn and sonorous tones, in praise of his barbarian captors, and encourage his children to esteem those who were the despoilers of their heritage... send him victorious, happy and glorious, long to reign over us, God spare the barbarian! The black man is ignorant....but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day: to the men of Judah,And to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries wither thou hast driven them,because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.(The Book of Daniel, chpt 9 vs. 7-8)RAS TAFARI The father to the children shall make known thy truth.(The Book of the Prophet Isaiah, chapter. 38) verse. 19) Yet, there remained those few among the black man who could not be brought with a few coins, or a house filled with things. There remained those among the black man who ovastand, and defended the truths spoken by Marcus Mosiah Garvey; and who ova, more importantly, the truths concerning the black man‘s heritage, as articulated Ras Tafari. Whereas Marcus Garvey spoke of the blackman‘s physical heritage, those who declared Ras Tafari, spoke of the black man‘s iritual truths from the very beginning of time. Selassie I tha first... 8 hrs ·  Wisdom, knowledge... Report Like Comment Share 13 people like this. Negus Decif Mumba One ting Garvey didnt notice is We as Black people are around the world, and dominated the whole world, now its a global Afrikan supremacy its not jus continental. Peace.
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