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The Grounding of Pan Africans
AFRICAN FUNDAMENTALISM
by
The Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey
The time has come for the Blackman to forget and cast behind
him his hero worship and adoration of other races, and to start
out immediately to create and emulate heroes of his own. We must
canonize our own martyrs and elevate to positions of fame and honor
Black men and women who have made their distinct contributions to
our racial history.
Sojourner Truth is worthy of sainthood alongside of Joan of Arc.
Crispus Attuck and George William Gordon are entitled to the halo
of martyrdom with no less glory than that of the martyrs of any
other race. Jacques Deselines' and Moshesh's brilliancy as
soldiers and statesmen outshone that of a Cromwell, Napoleon, or
Washington: hence they are entitled to the highest place as heroes
among men.
Africa has produced countless numbers of men and women, in war and
in peace, whose lustre and bravery outshines that of any other
people. Then why not see good and perfection in ourselves? We
must inspire a literature and promulgate a doctrine of our own
without any apologies to the powers that be. The right is the
Blackman's and Africa's. Let contrary sentiments and cross
opinions go to the winds. Oppositions to Race Independence is the
weapon of the enemy to defeat the hopes of an unfortunate people.
We are entitled to our own opinions and not obligated to or bound
by the opinions of others. If others laugh at you return the
laughter to them; if they mimic you return the compliment with
equal force. They have no more right to dishonor, disrespect or
disregard your feelings and manhood than you have in dealing with
them. Honor them when they honor you; disregard them when they
vilely treat you. Their arrogance is but skin deep and an
assumption that has no foundation in morals or in Law.
They have sprung from the same family tree of obscurity as
we have; their history is as rude in its primitiveness as ours,
their ancestors ran wild and naked, lived in caves and in branches
of trees like monkeys as ours; they made sacrifices, ate the flesh
of their own dead and the raw meat of wild beasts for centuries
even as they accuse us of doing. Their cannibalism was more
prolonged than ours; when we were embracing the Arts and Sciences
on the banks of the Nile, their ancestors were still drinking
human blood and eating out of the skulls of their conquered dead.
When our civilization had reached the noon-day of progress, they
were still running naked and sleeping in holes and caves with
rats, bats, and other insects and animals. After we had already
unfathomed the mystery of the Stars and reduced the Heavenly
Constellations to minute and regular calculus they were still
backwoodsmen, living in ignorance and blatant darkness.
The world today is indebted to us for the benefits of civilization.
They stole our Arts and Sciences from Africa. Then why should we
be ashamed of ourselves? Their modern improvements are but
duplicates of a grander civilization that we reflected thousands of
years ago; without the advantage of what is buried and still
hidden, to be resurrected and reintroduced by the intelligence of
our generation and our posterity.
Why should we be discouraged because somebody laughs at us today?
Who can tell what tomorrow will bring forth? Did they not laugh at
Moses, Christ, and Mohammed? Was there not a CARTHAGE, GREECE
and ROME? We see and have changes everyday; so plan, work, be
steadfast and do not be dismayed. As the Jew is held together by
his religion, the white races by the assumption and the unwritten
law of superiority, and the Mongolian by the precious tie of blood;
so likewise the Blackman must be UNITED in one grand RACIAL
HIERARCHY. Our union must know no climate, boundary or
nationality.
BLACK MEN THE WORLD OVER MUST PRACTICE ONE FAITH,
THAT OF CONFIDENCE IN THEMSELVES, WITH: ONE CAUSE,
ONE GOAL, ONE DESTINY.*
Let no religious scruples, no political machination divide us,
but let us hold together under all climates and in every country;
making among ourselves a RACIAL EMPIRE upon which, "The Sun shall
never set."
Let no voice but your own speak to you from the depths; let no
influence but your own rouse you in time of peace and time of war.
Hear all but attend only to that which concerns you, your
allegiance shall be to your Race, then to your family and your
Country. Remember always that the Jew in his political and
economic urge is always first a Jew, the white is first a white man
under all circumstances; and you can do no less than being first
and always a Blackman; then all else will take care of itself.
Let no one inoculate you with evil doctrines to suit their
conveniences. There's no humanity before that which starts with
yourself, "CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME." First to thyself be true and
thou canst not then be false to any man.
NATURE first made us what we are and then out of our own
creative genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow
always that GREAT LAW. Let the SKY be your limit, and Eternity our
Measurement. There's no height to which we cannot climb by using
the active intelligence of our own mind. Mind creates, and as much
as we desire in NATURE, we can have through the creation of our own
minds. Being at present the scientifically weaker Race, you shall
treat others only as they treat you, but in your homes and
everywhere possible you must teach the higher development of
science to your children; and be sure to develop a RACE of
SCIENTISTS par excellence, for in Science and NATIONALISM lie our
only hope to withstand the evil designs of modern materialism.
Never forget your Cause. REMEMBER! We live, work and plan for
the establishment of a great and binding RACIAL HIERARCHY;
the founding of a RACIAL EMPIRE whose only natural, spiritual
and political limits shall be: LIBERTY FOR AFRICANS, AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
by
The Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey
The time has come for the Blackman to forget and cast behind
him his hero worship and adoration of other races, and to start
out immediately to create and emulate heroes of his own. We must
canonize our own martyrs and elevate to positions of fame and honor
Black men and women who have made their distinct contributions to
our racial history.
Sojourner Truth is worthy of sainthood alongside of Joan of Arc.
Crispus Attuck and George William Gordon are entitled to the halo
of martyrdom with no less glory than that of the martyrs of any
other race. Jacques Deselines' and Moshesh's brilliancy as
soldiers and statesmen outshone that of a Cromwell, Napoleon, or
Washington: hence they are entitled to the highest place as heroes
among men.
Africa has produced countless numbers of men and women, in war and
in peace, whose lustre and bravery outshines that of any other
people. Then why not see good and perfection in ourselves? We
must inspire a literature and promulgate a doctrine of our own
without any apologies to the powers that be. The right is the
Blackman's and Africa's. Let contrary sentiments and cross
opinions go to the winds. Oppositions to Race Independence is the
weapon of the enemy to defeat the hopes of an unfortunate people.
We are entitled to our own opinions and not obligated to or bound
by the opinions of others. If others laugh at you return the
laughter to them; if they mimic you return the compliment with
equal force. They have no more right to dishonor, disrespect or
disregard your feelings and manhood than you have in dealing with
them. Honor them when they honor you; disregard them when they
vilely treat you. Their arrogance is but skin deep and an
assumption that has no foundation in morals or in Law.
They have sprung from the same family tree of obscurity as
we have; their history is as rude in its primitiveness as ours,
their ancestors ran wild and naked, lived in caves and in branches
of trees like monkeys as ours; they made sacrifices, ate the flesh
of their own dead and the raw meat of wild beasts for centuries
even as they accuse us of doing. Their cannibalism was more
prolonged than ours; when we were embracing the Arts and Sciences
on the banks of the Nile, their ancestors were still drinking
human blood and eating out of the skulls of their conquered dead.
When our civilization had reached the noon-day of progress, they
were still running naked and sleeping in holes and caves with
rats, bats, and other insects and animals. After we had already
unfathomed the mystery of the Stars and reduced the Heavenly
Constellations to minute and regular calculus they were still
backwoodsmen, living in ignorance and blatant darkness.
The world today is indebted to us for the benefits of civilization.
They stole our Arts and Sciences from Africa. Then why should we
be ashamed of ourselves? Their modern improvements are but
duplicates of a grander civilization that we reflected thousands of
years ago; without the advantage of what is buried and still
hidden, to be resurrected and reintroduced by the intelligence of
our generation and our posterity.
Why should we be discouraged because somebody laughs at us today?
Who can tell what tomorrow will bring forth? Did they not laugh at
Moses, Christ, and Mohammed? Was there not a CARTHAGE, GREECE
and ROME? We see and have changes everyday; so plan, work, be
steadfast and do not be dismayed. As the Jew is held together by
his religion, the white races by the assumption and the unwritten
law of superiority, and the Mongolian by the precious tie of blood;
so likewise the Blackman must be UNITED in one grand RACIAL
HIERARCHY. Our union must know no climate, boundary or
nationality.
BLACK MEN THE WORLD OVER MUST PRACTICE ONE FAITH,
THAT OF CONFIDENCE IN THEMSELVES, WITH: ONE CAUSE,
ONE GOAL, ONE DESTINY.*
Let no religious scruples, no political machination divide us,
but let us hold together under all climates and in every country;
making among ourselves a RACIAL EMPIRE upon which, "The Sun shall
never set."
Let no voice but your own speak to you from the depths; let no
influence but your own rouse you in time of peace and time of war.
Hear all but attend only to that which concerns you, your
allegiance shall be to your Race, then to your family and your
Country. Remember always that the Jew in his political and
economic urge is always first a Jew, the white is first a white man
under all circumstances; and you can do no less than being first
and always a Blackman; then all else will take care of itself.
Let no one inoculate you with evil doctrines to suit their
conveniences. There's no humanity before that which starts with
yourself, "CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME." First to thyself be true and
thou canst not then be false to any man.
NATURE first made us what we are and then out of our own
creative genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow
always that GREAT LAW. Let the SKY be your limit, and Eternity our
Measurement. There's no height to which we cannot climb by using
the active intelligence of our own mind. Mind creates, and as much
as we desire in NATURE, we can have through the creation of our own
minds. Being at present the scientifically weaker Race, you shall
treat others only as they treat you, but in your homes and
everywhere possible you must teach the higher development of
science to your children; and be sure to develop a RACE of
SCIENTISTS par excellence, for in Science and NATIONALISM lie our
only hope to withstand the evil designs of modern materialism.
Never forget your Cause. REMEMBER! We live, work and plan for
the establishment of a great and binding RACIAL HIERARCHY;
the founding of a RACIAL EMPIRE whose only natural, spiritual
and political limits shall be: LIBERTY FOR AFRICANS, AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
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Comment by ms. gg owens aka QUEEN AKEBA on July 19, 2009 at 9:09pm - MA'AT HOTEP....IT IS INDEED AN HONOR TO BE PART OF THIS PARTICULAR GROUP,,,MARCUS M. GARVEY IS HIGH ON MY LIST FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE INSPIRED ME TO WANT TO BECOME MORE CULTURALLY AWARE OF WHO I AM AND THOSE AROUND ME...THE RED/BLACK AND GREEN...WHICH GAVE ME THE DESIRE TO PURCHASE A FLAG OF THOSE COLORS AND HANG IT HIGH ON MY HOUSE...WEAR MY FIINGERNAILS IN THOSE COLORS NOW FOR 15 YEARS AND THE NOSE RING FOR 16 YEARS WITH THE CULTURAL COLORS ON MY HOOP..READING ABOUT HIM AND HIS INTELLIGENT WIFE HAVE LEFT AN IMPACT ON ME ABOUT LIBERATION THAT WILL NOT AND CANNOT BE DENIED...STAND UP YOU MIGHTY RACE..WE CAN ACCOMPLISH WHAT WE CAN AND WILL....ASANTE' SANA FOR HAVING THIS SITE TO SHARE ON AND KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING........QUEEN AKEBA.
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Comment by Nefertari Ahmose on March 1, 2009 at 5:12pm - All honour and praise to Sister Agnes Johnson with let us get with reality. Our Black masses will not buy into this, meaning Merkhutu and the Queendom of Wafrakan. My dear sister the good part is that Merkhutu is not just for sale, but for a people to grow in the knowledge and understanding of self and when they do be rewarded the things that give honour, dignity, success, education, self-worth and excellence by just making the effort. One cannot be apart of something that is truly not inclusive of them. Hence, the Civil Rights Movement, Garveyism, the struggle to reach today's height. I leave you with the Jamaican saying, "What is for you cannot be not for you". Love, peace and blessings. Nefertari A. Ahmose.
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Comment by Okpara Nosakhere on February 28, 2009 at 9:31pm -
Greetings Everyone,
Educational Management Associates, www.educationalmanagementassociates.com, has been given the honor of arranging speaking engagements starting the month of May 2009, for Dr. Julius Garvey, the son of the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association of 1914.
Dr. Julius Garvey will be available for lectures to discuss the life of one of our most revered and greatest freedom fighters in America, his father.
"Where did the name of the organization come from? It was while speaking to a West Indian Negro who was a passenger with me from Southampton, who was returning home to the West Indies from Basutoland with his Basuto wife, that I further learned of the horrors of native life in Africa. He related to me in conversation such horrible and pitiable tales that my heart bled within me. Retiring from the conversation to my cabin, all day and the following night I pondered over the subject matter of that conversation, and at midnight, lying flat on my back, the vision and thought came to me that I should name the organization the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities (Imperial) League. Such a name I thought would embrace the purpose of all black humanity. Thus to the world a name was born, a movement created, and a man became known." Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
If you know of an organization that would like to have him share an important part of African American history contact: Okpara Nosakhere at okpara@aol.com. This would be an excellent opportunity to support your fund raising efforts. Peace!
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Comment by Prophetees Leerma on February 28, 2009 at 4:24pm - Blessings to you and may you be richly blessed.
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Comment by Agnes Johnson on December 22, 2008 at 3:36pm - Blessings and all honor to you Dear Nefertari Ahmose, Regarding what you have created which is the currency used by the Queendom of Wafrakan and its affiliated organizations and institutions. Let us get with reality. Our Black Masses on this continent, for that is where I am living right here and now, will not buy into this. But if we can keep our resources out of the oppressors banks and out of the oppressors corporations but circulate the resources in our communities and in our institutions that would be a start. And then to connect those cords to the African businesses and land ownership. That is why Garvey was so dangerous and MLK started to connect those dots of economic power.
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Comment by Agnes Johnson on December 14, 2008 at 6:10am
- Malcom told us do not let our oppressors tell us who to hate and who to love. The Amerikkka told us to love the cowboy but hate the indian. Then we were told to hate the german but love the russian then love the chinese but hate the japanese, then love the german and hate the russian...now hate the muslim, iranian and on and on. The Future of the Black Liberation will only be seen when we can free ourselves from this disfunction.
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Comment by Nefertari Ahmose on April 28, 2008 at 11:40am
- In reply to the discussion titled Pan Africans, enemy of the people to which I made a reply, but it would seem got lost in this web of things. First of all who are the people? Are they the masses on the continent of Africa and the African Diaspora in the West? or, are they individuals that maintain the interests of neo-colonialism over their own people? Now, before I go putting designation on others, I would first wait for others to define who they are. So that I can see if they are one with me and my interests. I will not define Morgan Tsvangirai, Clarence Thomas or Bruce Golding it is for them to state who they are and I hope they are in line with what constitute the good care, protection and provision of the masses of African people found suffering and struggling in every part of this world. To say pan Africans are enemies of the people is a very strong statement indeed. We are our natural selves as to whom we identify with is another concern. If the word Wafrakan taken from the Kiafrakan language with Kiswahili and Amharic roots is used to designate and define all Africans, then it behoves all Africans to work not only in their own interests, but in the interests of others as well. It is what we identify with that tell us who we are. We need to unite as one African people with distinction. Time for the fractions of who we are become united with the whole and together we can move ahead successfully. I am, Nefertari A. Ahmose, Founder, Office of Black Sovereign, Queendom of Wafrakan.
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Comment by Nefertari Ahmose on April 28, 2008 at 11:14am
- As a pan African people lack of money and lack or representation among others have plagued us as a people. I come forward with Black Sovereign the Black Alternative as an office for leadership representation for our people. To mobilize us and give us financial access. I have created Merkhutu and with Merkhutu which is the currency used by the Queendom of Wafrakan and its affiliated organizations and institutions. The Queendom offers through the Royal Wafrakan Insurance benefits in healthcare, housing, education to people who pay into the system using Merkhutu as the medium of exchange. Through the Royal Wafrakan University education in Kiafran and Wafrakan studies are available in workshops and tele-classes. Merkhutu is controlled by the Royal Bank of Wafrakan. Websites for information will soon be available. People interested in services offered by the Queendom may send an e-mail to nefertari_ahmose@yahoo.com. Thank you. I am, Nefertari A Ahmose, Founder, Queendom of Wafrakan.
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Comment by jocelyn braddell on April 27, 2008 at 8:07am -
At 8:56am on April 27th, 2008, jocelyn braddell said…
Dear Friends, This is a little story that shows that friendship is not alone valued for its confidence building but that small measures of aid can give people the impetus for extraordinary outcome.
Early in the history of my magazine The Handstand I received material from a sad and shy young Palestinian in a refugee camp (Deheishe) near Bethlehem. He felt the loss of happy innocent childhood for Palestinian children and he and some other young teenagers started a youthclub for very young children to dance and sing there, make jokes together, feel friendship develop. after 2-3 years they got a computer and started a website and learnt to use the machine hoping to get in touch with the outside world for help and aid for their project. The boy even achieved a visit to supporters in England, although the revelation of other life-styles impressed him he was amazed by the English inability to
communicate with him, or to talk atall, silence on car journeys, during meals etc. seemed incredible to him! This young boy grew up to late teens experiencing every measure of Israeli occupation of his country and he thought to study. He wrote to many many governments to appeal for a student study in medicine - only the Ukraine Government replied to him. He travelled to Ukraine late last year and entered the Campus to learn a new language and to begin that inexorably difficult study of medicine. What money would support him? His father has not been allowed to work by Israel govt. edict for many many Palestinian men and thus his parents can only send him a very small sum. He is lonely, he must try to communicate in Ukraine language and try to eat enough to keep going. I recently received this letter from him which is so affectionate and typical of his strong will that I am sure you, dear friends will take the measure of it for your own community.
dearest Jocelyn,
thank you very much for sending that great book to me, i have got it, it reached me to my campus, and i showed it to my medical teacher and she said its really really great. and she told me that it will help me a lot, and the next years. i am really grateful for you to send that book to me.
and about the palestinian doctor, please dont leave him or he would forget about me, so, please remind him often, and please make sure that he has sent me the message .
dear jocelyn plz dont make your self tired with me, please take care of yourself, ad dont be sad or unhappy for me, because you should know that i would never stop or give up.
please agine , take care of your self and have all my worm greeting.
PS. plz dont get angry from me because i took some time to set on the internet, but it was because of studies.
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