To what end, how exactly would any such initiative be actioned when the peoples of African ethnicity within the Western Diaspora, Europe specifically are in the main individuals from a diverse range of national, ethnic and religious backgrounds as opposed to a homogenous group?
All due respect brother , like I said, let's move forward, no more cyclic conversation.
In the 20s Garvey conqoured that all over the planet, at time when all of the African and Carribbean nations, cept for Haiti, were colonized,and we faced real violent Jim Crow, here, with UNIA membership all over the world, spread via a newspaper in
4 languages, without televison , cable, radio, jet planes, computers, cell phones, internet, face book or twitter
The Pan African congress in the 40s held in London mind you did the same with Black brits, from,
all over the diaspora attending to hear the diplomats from the still colonized nations, discuss modalities of unity even before liberation.
In the 60s I am sure you have heard the ballot or the Bullet by Malcolm, about our rejection of that differences you mention.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRNciryImqg
Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, Assembly woman Vonnette Robinson, State Senator Eric Adams, were voted into office and have done great helping the Black unified community here in Crown Heights Brooklyn,
Black and activist politicians, available and accesable to the community,
voted into office by;
Jamaicans,
Haitians,
Black Panamanians,
Senegalese,
Ghanians,
Nigerians,
Belizians,
Trinidadians,
Guyanese,
Baisians,
Virgin Islanders,
African Americans ,
Guineans,
and West Africans
Who in the hell needs homogeneity,
except in a carton of milk ?
They were able to unite for a common cause inspite of their national ethnic and relgious differences
Like Malcolm said we catch hell because we are Black, Black was the unifying fact or and still is
The Following are Quotes from Dr. John Henrik Clarke
Photos of Dr. John Henrik Clark Speaking at the Dallas-Ft.Worth
Metroplex African American Think Tank (DFW-MAAT) Breaking
the Chains of Slavery Lecture Series, 3/12/94
Dr Clarke’s Words on HISTORY
“History is a clock that people use to tell there political and cultural time of day. It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. History tells a people where they have been and what they have been, where they are and what they are. Most important, history tells a people where they still must go, what they still must be.