Garvey had more faith in black people,than black people had in themselves. He believed black people might be leaving for hope and a dream but would figure it out. This is like me watching you get slapped by your husband,so I tell you that you need to leave. But you want to cling to your home life and make it work. The beatings get a bit worst and I tell you that your life could be in danger. But nope,you still want to cling to hope and dream with the husband instead of the unknown. Garvey essentially wanted to accelerate the process to make you less comfortable at home, so that leaving for hope in a dream didn't sound so bad. You can call it a drastic measure,but you see what black comfortability breeds in this country,absolutely nothing. Not sure how you can't have an appreciation for him attempting to speed up the inevitable. Dangerous for his time,but what wasn't dangerous as a black man during his time? I bet if we were still getting beat over the head ,chased,hung,called the n word on the daily we would have left this country 50 years ago, and actually have been working on the start of something beautiful as we speak. What are we working on right now as a people exactly
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Can you explain how he had such hope? What did he say that we weren't already saying? Or pride that we didn't already have? He came to the U.S. because of our HOPE and drive.
And I am not trying to clown Mr. Garvey. I am trying to understand his mindset - - that is why I have researched him so.
And I haven't seen or read what you are expounding.
Everything he said to the "American Negro" was demeaning. It was disrespectful, not mindful, realistic and untruthful.
It's like constantly telling a fat person they need to lose weight. They know they fat -- and they know they need to lose weight.
The difference with Garvey is those people he was speaking down on -- build every facet of this country. Their labor, bodies and corpse -- used, mortgaged and insured for profit.
This was right after Reconstruction into Jim Crow -- one of the most terrorist times -- and he was telling people who were formerly freedman and women and their children/grandchildren -- who most were sharecroppers -- they weren't shyt. Mind you most of Black Americans were in the SOUTH - in the beast of the belly - being terrorized daily - all while having to live on the land of their past enslavers -- sharecropping.
And all of their labor and contributions weren't shyt. And to go somewhere -- they never been -- promising something he couldn't promise -- all while trying to speak for them -- and had NO CARE of their safety and lives.
He was out of pocket.
Leave this country to go where? Again, to each it's own -- but one must realize and not be ashamed that this country is our country. To go somewhere else with another set of issues -- and in addition with WHITES -- cause they are everywhere is unrealistic -- and spits in the face of every one of our ancestors who tolled, died and rest here.
Some more of that tough love. The klan was trying to make ADOS more “race conscious. 
