Because Back to Africa failed and people will always take away credibility for Ls. There are many black activist that were more meaningful to the movement than Malcolm and MLK. Those were just the main reps.
Why doesn't Marcus Garvey get more credit as a black leader?
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Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey always gets his honor from folks i know...
This is a good response. I think the feds definitely squashed any public acknowledgement of him for decades, and since his career ended in disgrace it was probably easy for blacks to forget about him before the civil rights era.
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he isnt American
he made a deal with the kkk
his black star line failed
he made a deal with the kkk
his black star line failed
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson
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Becuh he wuh big-lippid bla trash. Tryna teash blah folts to get all edumacated and aks fuh dey so-called libaration. 
I don't undastan how dis negro wuzint happy like all da ress uv dem on dat banana plantation in Cosa Rica and start talkin all dat uppity negro crap about libaration and goin back to Affica. I guess he ain't know his place. I do haff to give him credit fuh da kind words he said about da Ku Kluss Klan doe. Dat wuz prolly da only good thing he did in his wide nose-havin life.
I don't undastan how dis negro wuzint happy like all da ress uv dem on dat banana plantation in Cosa Rica and start talkin all dat uppity negro crap about libaration and goin back to Affica. I guess he ain't know his place. I do haff to give him credit fuh da kind words he said about da Ku Kluss Klan doe. Dat wuz prolly da only good thing he did in his wide nose-havin life.
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Marcus Garvey youtube vid is off the hook! Thanks for posting this!
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Garvey was too gangsta for white folks to cosign. Same reason why u see white folks on MLK dikk over Malcolm during black history month.
Unless you're a docile, Pacifist, non threatening negro you will not get respect. Early hip-hop showed him love tho, as well as Noble Drew Ali.
Unless you're a docile, Pacifist, non threatening negro you will not get respect. Early hip-hop showed him love tho, as well as Noble Drew Ali.
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Becuh he wuh big-lippid bla trash. Tryna teash blah folts to get all edumacated and aks fuh dey so-called libaration.
I don't undastan how dis negro wuzint happy like all da ress uv dem on dat banana plantation in Cosa Rica and start talkin all dat uppity negro crap about libaration and goin back to Affica. I guess he ain't know his place. I do haff to give him credit fuh da kind words he said about da Ku Kluss Klan doe. Dat wuz prolly da only good thing he did in his wide nose-havin life.
wackest gimmick ever 
ogc163
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One of the reasons is because a large portion of the Black middle class at the time hated him, so he didn't have the institutional support from the "Black Elite". He was not able to use the media and other outlets to work around this problem like other Black groups/leaders would later on. I think if media had played a larger part in society at the time he would be given more credit today. One of the main factors in Malcolm X being popular especially among young people is that his recorded speeches are easily accessible in a wide variety of formats.
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yeah, this is my feeling too.
Texas2step
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Honestly neither him or Malcolm X did anything. Neither made anything change
The reason is cuz most people don't seek out knowledge other than what they've been taught. I can tell you that as a high schooler, there was very little about him in my history book. I would LOVE for the chance to go back and read it now because I bet it was negative, or at the very least, did not mention all of his brilliant ideas. All I really remember was that he was all about going back to Africa, and that there was a picture of him in a sailor's type outfit.
It took me watching a documentary on him to learn about his brilliant ideas like black people buying bonds to create the Black Star Line. Black people bonding together to have real OWNERSHIP in something. I mean, this is not just brilliant for poor black folks. If poor folks of any color banded together to do this, we wouldn't have no so-called 1% in this country. I have mad respect for this brother, and I'm white by the way, but he was just an intelligent man. I get his point too that black people had to have their own sovereign land. But, I don't agree they had to go back to Africa to do it. If blacks could just put their money economic power together (like the Jews) they wouldn't have to do no back to Africa movement. But, alas, the saddest part of that documentary I watched was about how J. Edgar Hoover came in and got his cointelpro nut on way before the Black Panthers on Marcus Garvey. He did the fucck shiit, and that's what brought Garvey's movement down. Shiit is sad yo.
It took me watching a documentary on him to learn about his brilliant ideas like black people buying bonds to create the Black Star Line. Black people bonding together to have real OWNERSHIP in something. I mean, this is not just brilliant for poor black folks. If poor folks of any color banded together to do this, we wouldn't have no so-called 1% in this country. I have mad respect for this brother, and I'm white by the way, but he was just an intelligent man. I get his point too that black people had to have their own sovereign land. But, I don't agree they had to go back to Africa to do it. If blacks could just put their money economic power together (like the Jews) they wouldn't have to do no back to Africa movement. But, alas, the saddest part of that documentary I watched was about how J. Edgar Hoover came in and got his cointelpro nut on way before the Black Panthers on Marcus Garvey. He did the fucck shiit, and that's what brought Garvey's movement down. Shiit is sad yo.
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My friend, even though MLK didn't hurt anybody, he wasn't docile, pacifist, or non threatening at all.
Ponder that for a moment my brother
