Very true. But it was Garvey who had the biggest influence on Malcolm.
I’m trying to understand the premise of this thread though. Is it that Jamaican/Haitian Americans need to stop having an elitist/condescending attitudes toward African Americans and show more respect? (which I wholeheartedly agree with) or is it that they need to stay out of the black American struggle completely? Because the latter seems to go against the global black solidarity that Pan Africanism calls for, which I thought y’all were proponents of.
It’s the “black voices” who don’t have their blood in the soil talking down on aframs, while wearing us like a costume to get in that place they’re at in the first place while vehemently saying “I’m not part of those nikkas over there ya feel me off top”. Especially these women who shyt on afram men
The nuanced shyt between us regular people is whatever, but when bytches like Luvvie or any of these “I’m vehemently not like those lazy aframs that died to open the gates for me not to have German shepherds attack me for shyts and giggles while I’m trying to enjoy this pumpkin spice latte” YouTube personalities open their mouths and start reinforcing bullshyt.. who are the ones really creating the division? Us speaking up on it? They are influencing people and we are catching it
Or the ones (not all continental Africans, just those nuanced ones) who claim we were to weak to make it in the continent, who inadvertently reveal themselves to be just as weak, to come here eat off the plate of those who were previously deemed unfit?
All in all, fukk the slick shyt.