Almost every so-called "Black" "Leader/Intellectual" over the past 100 years, Malcolm X, Claude Anderson etc. has said a variation of this statement. I heard Claude Anderson accidentally slip out his mouth and implied there was something genetically wrong with "black" folks. LOL.
shyt...you had so-called "Blacks" in the 1800's, like Denmark Vessey and Gabriel Prosser trying to organize "Black" folks to free themselves from captivity and you had their own people running to the Caucazoid to get them executed so they could return to their comfy and easy life on the plantation working for the rest of thier life for massa. I'm pretty sure that's the mindstate Garvey is refering to.
When you are a forward 3-Dimensional thinking individual, providing practical solutions for your people to help them climb out of the rut their stupid collective decision making has placed them in...and see, generation after generation after generation Black folks continually digging the rut even deeper every generation with stupid, illogical decision making and promoting and adhering to counter-productive culturally regressive ass backwards culture that keeps you perputually at the bottom of society and under the thumb of the Caucazoid...the wheels start turning in your head...and you start inquiring "What the fuk is wrong with my people"?
Jeremiah 2:14 —
Is Israel a servant?
is he a homeborn
slave? why is he spoiled?
Deuteronomy 28:28 YHWH shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
Deuteronomy 28:29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
And when you move as a nation or as a soverign national...you're inevitably going to have to politic with those whose doctrines and ideologies who you don't agree with, in regards to his correspondance with a racist. Garvey wanted all his people in Africa and the KKK leader agreed...so why exactly would they be at odds?
I don't see the point of corresponding with a KKK dude outside of the fact that they had alot more power and influence in the mainstream Caucazoid community in Garvey's day...but ain't nothing to get all in your feelings about when you consider his goal was Autonomy and Soverign Nationalism...a concept which has been thoroughly psychologically beat out of "Black" folks with "Civil Rights" movement which was nothing more than the promotion of being in perpetual servitude under the Caucazoid and looking for a people that detest you as your chief deity to solve all your problems and opt to be a "homeborn slave" and "do nothing slumberer" instead of putting in real work and taking the initiative to build up your community and be the problem solver for your own people...This is the modern incarnate who Garvey is refering to.