Should we have followed Marcus Garvey plan???

21 replies · 3483 views · Started by what's_on_my_mind · Jul 2004

Marcus Garvey was a smart but stubborn man.... in the late 1800's and early 1900's...Mr. Garvey stood tall, strong, and poised against movements of Booker T. Washington, WEB DuBois, an others.... Mr. Garvey felt that people of African descent should follow his trans-African movement .....so we as an African People can live at peace away from racism and in our natural land of Africa... With Mr. Garvey's theory....he recieved many threats and bad-talk because of his thought of Africa..... However...Mr. Garvey felt this movement would help escape racism that deprive our everyday lives as African Americans and minorities in society... With this being said.. Booker T. Washington felt we should learn trade and earn the white man's respect...while Dubois believed in liberal arts education and the talented 10 percent of black folks...with these theories... Some of Booker T. Washington and DuBois theory has been inforced more than Garvey..in fact Garvey could be considered a laughing stock then... Now close to a 100 years later....I ask the question...would we have been better if we would have followed Marcus Garvey plan of returning to Africa... With all the racism.... All the trails of HBCU's recieving poor education... All the baby mama drama with black women All the drama of blacks dominating the jail system... Were our ancestors logical?? We took DuBois and Washington's advice.. we have grown..but we are still opressed....this can be seen in our everyday lives and in a government that laughs and turn it's back on black folks.... With all this being said...should we have listened to Garvey and went to Africa??? Do you all think we would be better off if we listened to him??? Please give your opinion...I will say mines later..

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King_J · Jul 2004

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Should we have went, sheit we will never know. Things could have been worse, or perhaps better. For real WE WILL NEVER KNOW. It could have been better as in perhaps we could have brung Africa up, because as we all know blacks in America around Marcus Garvey's era was doing big, big things. Like inventions, literature, etc. But who knows, most of us could have **** right now, and most black people could be on their way to death and not many blacks may be around in the next 200 years. That could be a down fall. But as I said, we will never know

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R-Tistic from Los Angeles, CA · Jul 2004

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I remember talking about this with my teacher in 11th grade, which is when I first learned about Garvey. He told us that either the **** or just the racist white population in general supported Garvey a lot, because they wanted us to be sent back. I hear that Liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world now. So I don't know if it would have been a good idea for us to all go there...we have made A LOT of progress in America, even with all the problems that we face.

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· Jul 2004

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AFRIKAN AMERIKKKANS REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT THEIR VOTE NEVER COUNTED, LET ALONE THAT THEY ARE "TRUE" CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERIKKKA!! HELL, YOU TRY AND TELL "NEGROES" THAT THEY ARE JUST 14TH AMENDMENT SLAVES (TO THIS DAY), THEY WILL LAUGH, UNTIL YOU PROVE TO THEM THAT THEY ARE STILL PROPERTY OF THE U.S.A. INC. WITH A FEW "PRIVILEDGES" GIVEN TO THEM VIA THAT AMENDMENT, THEY TEND TO SHUT UP!! MALCOLM X KNEW ABOUT THIS FICTICIOUS GOV. TO WHERE HE BRAVELY STATED THAT HE WAS NEITHER DEMONCRAT NOR RETHUGLICAN, "I AM AN AFRIKAN"!! WAKE UP SLEEPING NEGROES, THIS SYSTEM WILL NEVER HAVE YOUR BEST INTEREST AT HEART, EVER!!! REST IN PEACE TO ALL OF OUR FALLEN BLACK HEROES AND SHE-ROES. I DEFINETELY WON'T BE CELEBRATING "THEIR" INDEPENDANCE ON THE 4TH!! PEACE!!

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· Jul 2004

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sowthwestplaya03 wrote:
AFRIKAN AMERIKKKANS REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT THEIR VOTE NEVER COUNTED, LET ALONE THAT THEY ARE "TRUE" CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERIKKKA!! HELL, YOU TRY AND TELL "NEGROES" THAT THEY ARE JUST 14TH AMENDMENT SLAVES (TO THIS DAY), THEY WILL LAUGH, UNTIL YOU PROVE TO THEM THAT THEY ARE STILL PROPERTY OF THE U.S.A. INC. WITH A FEW "PRIVILEDGES" GIVEN TO THEM VIA THAT AMENDMENT, THEY TEND TO SHUT UP!! MALCOLM X KNEW ABOUT THIS FICTICIOUS GOV. TO WHERE HE BRAVELY STATED THAT HE WAS NEITHER DEMONCRAT NOR RETHUGLICAN, "I AM AN AFRIKAN"!! WAKE UP SLEEPING NEGROES, THIS SYSTEM WILL NEVER HAVE YOUR BEST INTEREST AT HEART, EVER!!! REST IN PEACE TO ALL OF OUR FALLEN BLACK HEROES AND SHE-ROES. I DEFINETELY WON'T BE CELEBRATING "THEIR" INDEPENDANCE ON THE 4TH!! PEACE!!

Yet this fool has great Mastery of the "White Man's" english. Now if he re-post this in Ibo, then I'll be surprised.

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natalie_g · Jul 2004

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i say we should go america hasn't done anything for us except **** us of our culture. we have people that won't go outside because they don't want to get dark becasue they think they'll be ****. you have people who think all Africa is a barren desert with **** infested people when that's only a small amount. America isn't the place for us no matter how far we've come to getting along with the white race we're not getting along with ourselves. we have so much black on black crime it's ridiculous. and every little thing somebody outside of our race says is considered offensive even within our race. We have to build our race in order to survive all of this killing isn't doing anything except endangering our race. we need to go to the homeland and learn of our ancestors, we need to learn our culture everything is Americanized over here, we have no power, the ones who do forgot where they came from; not all but many. i say we might as well have tried this way doesn't seem to be helping any.

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