VoxSphere74
Banned
Detroit Red's FATHER was a UNIA member, Detroit Red ran numbers, robbed, scammed, and pimped despite that.
The NOI transformed him, and they were inspired by Noble Drew Ali.
Nobody needed Garvey, Liberia and Sierra Leone already existed.
EJ Rozell and Bishop Henry McNeil Turner achieved his goal before he was thought of.
Pro-Blackness and discipline transformed Malcolm. So if it hadn't been the NOI it would have been something else.
And Sierra Leone and Liberia needed direction and purpose. Without Garvey or someone like him they inevitably withered and amounted to nothing and even now still haven't.
Which is exactly what cacs and their respective governments wanted.
And if you look at how countries surrounded by opponents succeed it's by sheer will.
For example, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore, opposed by cacs and pushed to remain undeveloped sources of raw materials pushed cacs out, focused on economic nationalism, exports, and manufactured goods of increased sophistication until they dominated.
Now cac economists call those countries "economic miracles" which is strange since a miracle is something that shouldn't happen and doesn't make sense.
And to cacs anyone who's not white succeeding economically against their best efforts doesn't make sense
Back to Garvey though, his ideas were solid, but he was done in by most Blacks who didn't want independence and power. Also he talked a lot about what he was going to do to the cac colonial powers in Africa which put them on notice and gave them a lot of time to destroy his efforts.
Also his public parades in the US were wasteful and pointless. Nothing built there was ever going to last due to cac destruction and it unnecessarily undermined his efforts.
So Black nationalists need to focus on the Caribbean and Africa where Black success can take root and actually prosper.