Black People : SHOULD Black People Unite? Regardless of Religion

chuck · Aug 9, 2012

Where has this poster disappeared to?!?

Zim said: ↑

If the works of our greatest intellectuals were not played down and were compulsory reading material for all Black children - I honestly believe we would not be in this position.

How relevant is this speech even in 2011?

The pleasure of addressing you at this hour is great. You have re-assembled yourselves in New York, coming from all parts of the world to this annual convention, because you believe that by unity you can alleviate the unfortunate condition in which, racially, we find ourselves.
We are glad to meet as Negroes, notwithstanding the stigma that is placed upon us by a soulless and conscienceless world because of our backwardness. As usual, I am not here to flatter you, I am not here to tell you how happy and prosperous we are as a people, because that is all false.
The Negro is not happy, but, to the contrary, is extremely miserable. He is miserable because the world is closing fast around him, and if he does not strike out now for his own preservation, it is only a question of a few more decades when he will be completely out-done in a world of strenuous competition for a place among the fittest of God's creations.
The Negro is dying out, and he is going to die faster and more rapidly in the next fifty years than he has in the past three hundred years. There is only one thing to save the Negro, and that is an immediate realization of his own responsibilities.
Unfortunately, we are the most artless and indifferent people in the world! We are shiftless and irresponsible, and that is why we find ourselves the wards of an inherited materialism that has lost its soul and its conscience. It is strange to hear a Negro leader speak in this strain, as the usual course is flattery, but I would not flatter you to save my own life and that of my own family. There is no value in flattery. Flattery of the Negro for another quarter of a century will mean hell and damnation to the race. How can any Negro leader flatter us about progress and the rest of it, when the world is preparing more than ever to bury the entire race? Must I flatter you when England, France, Italy, Belgium and Spain are all concentrating on robbing every square inch of African territory the land of our fathers? Must I flatter you when the cry is being loudly raised for a white America, Canada, Australia and Europe, and a yellow and brown Asia? Must I flatter you when I find all other peoples preparing themselves for the struggle to survive, and you still smiling eating, dancing, drinking and sleeping away your time, as if yesterday were the beginning of the age of pleasure? I would rather be dead than be a member of your race without thought of the morrow, for it portends evil to him that thinketh not. Because I cannot flatter you, I am here to tell, emphatically, that if we do not seriously reorganize ourselves as a people and face the world with a program of African nationalism, our days in civilization are numbered, and it will be only a question of time when the Negro will be as completely and complacently dead as the North American Indian, or the Australian Bushman.

You talk about the progress we have made in America and elsewhere, among the people of our acquaintance, but what progress is it? A progress than can be snatched away from you in forty-eight hours because it has been built upon sand.

You must thank God for the last two generations of whites in our western civilization; thank God that they were not made of sterner stuff, and character and a disposition to see all races their rivals and competitors in the struggle to hold and possess the world, otherwise, like the Indian, we would have been nearly all dead.

The progress of the Negro in our civilization was tolerated because of indifference, but that indifference exists no longer. Our whole civilization is becoming intolerant, and because of that the whole world of races has started to think.

Men do not build for others, they build for themselves. The age and our religion demand it. What are you going to expect, that white men are going to build up America and elsewhere and hand it over to us? If we are expecting that, we are crazy, we have lost our reason.

If you were white, you would see the rest in hell before you would deprive your children of bread to give it to others. You would give that which you did not want, but not that which is to be the sustenance of your family, and so the world thinks; yet a [W. E. B. ] DuBois and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will tell us by flattery that the day is coming when a white President of the United States of America will get out of the White House and give the position to a Negro, that the day is coming when a Mr. Hughes will desert the secretaryship of State and give it to the Negro James Weldon Johnson; that the time is just around the corner of constitutional rights when the next Ambassador to the Court of Saint James will be a black man from Mississippi or from North Carolina. Do you think that white men who have suffered, bled and died to make America and the world what it is, are going to hand over to a parcel of lazy Negroes the things that they prize most?

Imagine, some people would have us believe that Native Indians were wiped out because they would rather have died than accept slavery. If there was ever a romanticized view of history than that is most definitely one. Some of them may very well have possessed this ''id rather die'' attitude but some just couldn't didn't survive the tribulations and brutality. Now that is the truth. It doesn't get more simpler than that. Whether its assimilation, Genocide or both if we don't FIX UP - we will be wiped out. Its no wonder Rastafarians regard Marcus Garvey as a prophet - so they should because no black person should forget these words. Its hard to believe we have even survived up to the present sometimes when you think of all the populations that have been wiped out.

Clyde Coger · Aug 9, 2012

chuck said: ↑

Where has this poster disappeared to?!?

In the Spirit of Sankofa,

... He hasn't, been working right here:

http://destee.com/index.php?threads/group-think-progress-reports-feedback.53953/page-4#post-545034

Peace In,

chuck · Aug 9, 2012

Clyde Coger said: ↑

In the Spirit of Sankofa,

... He hasn't, been working right here:

http://destee.com/index.php?threads/group-think-progress-reports-feedback.53953/page-4#post-545034

Peace In,

Zim, if you do read and see this, do send me a personal message, since I and the other fella don't seem to agree about anything, these days!

FYI...

	We Set Aside Our Differences and Unite.		24 vote(s)	88.9%
	Each Religion or School of Thought Should Stick With Their Own & Fight Seperately.		3 vote(s)	11.1%

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