Marcus Garvey and Blame

So naturally exceptional in determining rightful order of living, that foreign onlookers described this primary people of the world as ‘blameless’. Steeped in their natural norm of their own self-determined spiritual-cultural way, rightfulness for Afrikan souls had no option but to prevail. By implication and by contrast, the alien onlookers surely observed on reflection of themselves that an existence of disorder and unrighteousness is a crucible for blame-ridden and guilty disfunction.

During the Maafa of recent centuries the thirst for power and material gain appears to have far outweighed any consideration for rightfulness amongst alien forces of ill.  Perhaps even taking the posture of ‘to hell with rightfulness, lets raid this dark people and steal them and their gold’. As guilty as others of ill have proven themselves to be, Afrikan souls have a duty and responsibility to themselves to rise in the best ways possible for their own self-determined betterment.

The supreme visionary Marcus Garvey brought this challenge to the fore and set about the deliverance of a massive organ for Afrikan victory with his Movement. Here, this exceptional hero eloquently articulates the challenge in this way:

“So few of us can understand what it takes to make a man – the man who will never say die; the man who will never give up; the man who will never depend upon others to do for him what he ought to do for himself; the man who will not blame God, who will not blame Nature, who will not blame Fate for his condition; but the who will go out and make conditions to suit himself. Oh, how disgusting life becomes when on every hand you hear people (who bear your image, who bear your resemblance) telling you that they cannot make it, that Fate is against them, that they cannot get a chance. If…[Afrikans] can only get to know themselves, to know that in them is a sovereign power, is an authority that is absolute, then in the next twenty-four hours we would have a new race, we would have a nation…resurrected, not from the will of others to see us rise -but from our own determination to rise, irrespective of what the world thinks”.

Fundamental is knowing of the self, from which ascension can come. The inspiration and wisdom guidance of the great Marcus Garvey is surely mission-compelling for Afrikans worldwide. Here, the imperative thrust of independent learning can be energised throughout the levels of the self: