Marcus Garvey and Race Realisation

The age-old Afrikan dictum of ‘know thyself’ is pronouncement of deep and meaningful substance that spans the eternal flow of the Afrikan continuum. This primary people of the world within the natural norm of self-determined life thrust live in knowingness as a fundamental feature of their own way of life.

Despite the efforts of others that mean the Afrikan ill throughout the Maafa of recent centuries, only Afrikan souls can restore their self-knowingness and express their self-determined excellence accordingly.

The supreme visionary Marcus Garvey, with profound depth of insight articulated the following:

“The world must realise that the [Afrikan] is a race and not an individual, and whether the [Afrikan], be rich or poor he is still a member of his honourable race. If we do not settle on a policy of our own to make it expensive for even those among us to ignore our racial dignity, then this contempt of our group will continue and the [Afrikan] will be understood always to be somebody of no value and of no social worth”.

 If steeped in the chaos and disorder of alien imposition, an ill-consumed Afrikan soul can deny self-knowingness, turn on his own kind and reserve the most potent venom for those that genuinely mission for Afrikan betterment (past or present). In some circles the susceptible Afrikan soul competes to out-slander, out-degrade, outright destroy anything Afrikan – anything of rightful Afrikan progress. Of course, alien forces of ill will surely rub their hands with glee at the prospect of self-destruction by proxy of their intent.

Fortunately, the Afrikan spirit is of eternal fortitude and progressive souls march on in their victorious stride to purge themselves of ill-contaminants and to build whatever, however, wherever they can for Afrikan civilisation of rightful order to be realised. Here then, the great Marcus Garvey challenged Afrikan souls to mission ever-upward for Afrikan ascension and to:

“Let sentiments and cross-opinions go to the winds”.

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: