Marcus Garvey and The Sober

Afrikan people are naturally a people of exceptional and deep thought. This is a people of such depth and rationale that they brought forth the world’s greatest and most long-lived civilisations. This primary people of the world also travelled and populated areas outside of Afrika age upon age way prior to the interruptions and disruptions of the Maafa of recent centuries. The first of humanity and the bringers of civilisation certainly developed the scientific and technological advancements necessary to navigate the seas for example.  Yet still, there is no denying the impact of the recent Maafa by alien invading forces of anti-Afrikan agency by those of the further east and those of the west.

The Afrikan continuum is vast and rich with the pinnacle heights of excellence. The Afrikan journey also contains a plethora of lessons that can be learned and details of the challenges to victoriously face. Of course, only the Afrikan can restore the self-knowingness to claim the grand inheritance of their own continuum.

The supreme visionary Marcus Garvey rightfully urged Afrikan souls to restore self-knowingness, to engage in sober thought and to deal with reality accordingly:    

“Sensible people, realising their position in this speedy movement of time and circumstances, calculatingly sober-down themselves to a proper understanding of what the changes mean to them in particular, and when they have satisfactorily analysed conditions they apply them in relationship to themselves so as to gain such advantages as would tend to give them satisfaction as civilisation moves on to its changing epochs.

A Proper Understanding

Unfortunately, the [Afrikan] group has not sobered down itself to a proper understanding of what the changes mean to them in particular, and so we go forward blundering and blustering to realise ultimately that we are placed at a terrible disadvantage to the comparative progress with other groups in the [so-called] civilisation that environs us”.

If Afrikan souls become intoxicated with ill-understanding of themselves, others that mean the Afrikan ill rub their hands with glee at the prospect of incessant blundering, blustering and self-destruction. In a dire state of disorder and confusion no building takes place; Afrikan souls can deny themselves and claim pseudo-identities; Afrikan souls can turn on their own kind even insulting their own great heroes; false notions of success such as how much slander and other destructive rhetoric can be hurled from one susceptible Afrikan soul to the next can become all-consuming; alien contaminants of ill can be embraced as being somehow normal; and so on. The characteristics of abject disorder and chaos is extensive and such intoxication can unfortunately consume the young or the more senior. 

It is naturally sober for the Afrikan to know and to build. The age-old cyclically ascending uprightness of: the more the Afrikan knows- the more the Afrikan builds; the more the Afrikan builds – the more the Afrikan knows, is naturally eternal and thus pinnacle civilisation of rightful order is realised.

The great Marcus Garvey rightfully directed his people for whom he dedicated his life and who he never betrayed, toward ‘a proper understanding’ of themselves and the world:

One God! One Aim! One Destiny!

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: