Garvey's Ghost: Black Talk

The Saddest Thing

The saddest thing on the planet is arguably a black person who so hates themselves that they feel the need to tell it. The second saddest thing is possibly the fact that someone would actually give them space to publish their self hatred. Or maybe it's our fortune to get to actually know that such incredibly sad people are among us. I don't know. but this specimen of self hatred landed in my browser this morning. It is from the Jamaica-Gleaner, a publication that gave Garvey hell:

quote:
A republic in the hands of a black politician is a passport to hell. The best thing for us is the Westminster model with a Prime Minister and a Governor-General representing the Queen. A Prime Minister and a president is a confusion of meaning, and guaranteed to cause a lot of quarrelling and political conspiracy.

Well there we have it. Perhaps this individual doesn't realize that such an opinion on black rule is a large part of the problem. After all our good friend and egun (Ancestor) Carter G. Woodson, already explained the propensity that blacks have, as a result of slavery and colonialism, to not want to be "bossed about" by other blacks, but prefer to take instruction and direction from whites. I cannot imagine a chinese, European or Indian making such a assinine statement. Well I could but at least these people actually run their own.

Indeed the author makes one good statement:

Any political regime which operates on the basis of race is doomed to failure, and always in the most spectacular fashion.

true indeed. Once in power, running a country has very little to do with race and should rarely come up in day to day operations, but as a country of mostly black people and the continual target of US and European meddling you'd be an ass to think that race doesn't matter.

Links:

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20040307/cleisure/cleisure3.html