Marcus Garvey and Racial Unity

Racial conception is as old as the emergence of racial difference. For the Afrikan, as the primary people of the world all such differences are contemporary to their own origination. As such, the natural racial bond between Afrikan souls is uniquely as old as humanity. It also reflects the preservation of the parent people of the world. It is the parent that must establish and maintain rightful order. It is the parent that provides the discipline for unruly children. This is a natural norm. However, the parent void of knowingness of self can render the role of parent at a severe deficit or even non-existent.

Over the recent centuries of the Maafa, It has certainly been the intent of others that mean the Afrikan ill to deny Afrikan souls their primary role and responsibility in this world as a fully flourishing people. Despite this, only Afrikan souls can restore themselves to their rightful substance of self-knowingness and their rightful role and responsibility in the world.

The supreme visionary Marcus Garvey not only possessed a deeply meaningful conception of Afrikan racial unity but missioned to bring it into fullest organised functional reality through self-determined effort on a scale the world had never before seen. To this superlative hero the challenge was clear:

“The conspiracy to destroy the [Afrikan] race, is so well organised that the moment anything interferes with their program there springs up simultaneous action on the part of [their] leaders”.

He was also aware of the challenges of Afrikan being misused against their own best interests, even operating in modes of self-destruction by proxy of alien forces of ill:

“we have now reached the point where the entire race get together and stop these schemers at their game…God made us in His own image and He had some purpose when He thus created us. Then why should we destroy ourselves?”.

He thus dedicated himself to the ascension of a whole people out of whom must come a:

“a binding racial hierarchy upon which the sun shall never set”.

The foundation principle of the Nguzo Saba is Umoja (Unity) which explicitly details race in its summary meaning:

To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.

Here, race is the Afrikan world community who hold natural duty and responsibility for their own ascension and security.  The elements of this principle are given spiritual focus in detail within the formulation of ASBWOK (Afrikan Spirituality By Way Of Kwanzaa) considered as levels of the self thus:

The person self (for Afrikan masculine manhood) or (for Afrikan feminine womanhood)