DR. UMAR JOHNSON LECTURE MARCUS GARVEY PT. 3

so in New York they say we don't think you should go to Jamaica we think you should stay here your movement ain't doing nothing over there because of the color-coded hierarchy so Garvey decides to stay in New York City and when he did that he switched the headquarters from Jamaica to to New York because in the Constitution of the universal Negro Improvement Association and African communities League wherever the president general lives is where the international headquarters shall be so when Garvey gets to New York he pays a visit to w eb de bois at the office of the crisis the n-double-a-cp s paper and they have a conversation it was pretty favorable but Garvey said he knew something wasn't right because everybody worked and for the boy in the office looked like they could be white see and don't get me wrong I was just heading to boy's grave in Ghana three weeks ago but I got to be honest as well wev the boy was a light-skinned supremacist yes he was he did not like dark-skinned people around him that's right he's the father of the boule yes in fact he's quoted as saying what the boule was started to keep the educated black man away from Marcus Garvey yes he's the father of the talented tenth that's right there was the boy who said the college-educated Negro was saved the race I wish he was here today it looks to me like the race needs to save the college-educated Negro so then he goes and he meets a Phillip Randolph famous from Chicago for organizing the first black Union one of the first the Brotherhood of sleeping car porters he gave Marcus Garvey one of his first speaking engagements before he became an enemy we know a philip Randolph not only for his great works but he was also one of our first closeted homosexual leaders and one day we're gonna have to do a research study on the role of the black homosexual in undermining the black struggle so Garvey incorporates the UNIA and then he launches the Negro World newspaper now mind you his close friends are dr. cottagey Woodson father Black History Month author Schaumburg the first to systematically study black history J Rogers these are our master teachers and they're all Garvey Ike's writing for the paper Garvey's paper was so feared by white colonialist in Africa that it was outlawed in half the colonies in Africa if they caught you with Garvey's paper you could be beheaded or sentenced to life in prison just by having a paper the Negro world paper to this day has been the most notorious the most feared and the most circulated black newspaper of all time here's a man in the early 1900's telling people that your child should not be playing with white now baby and then marcus garvey opened a Dow Factory this is before Kenneth Clark's dial experiment in the Brown versus Board of Education this before Thurgood Marshall this is before Kenneth Clark went to the Supreme Court with the black now white dial test using that to strike down segregation that wasn't into the fifties this is the 20 and Garvey said black children he black dials and I'm going make on so then he starts the Negro factories corporation some of y'all don't notice but the UNIA had two colleges Booker T Washington University in Liberty University in Virginia people don't know that and what is garveyism garveyism is the highest stage of pan-african nationalism it can be summed up as number one belief that if you're going to give God a color and better be y'all Garvey said what people you know ever get free worshiping a deity then looks like the enemy and then Garvey said we must identify as African people he said that being African must be first in your life and so he came up with a term called race first he said the Jew is a Jew before he's anything else the Italian isn't it tired before he's anything else the Arab is an Arab before he's a Muslim or Christian and he said you got to be African before you identify as being a Delta or Kappa or Q or s zero or Mason or elk or doctor or lawyer you are African folks and then Garvey said we must have African racial pride he said it's not enough to just study where you come from it's not enough to know the facts in the dates he said it must be internalized as a part of your spirit he said be proud to be Africa Marcus Garvey started a black drama club Society they didn't have television yet so what they would do at the UNIA on the weekends is they would put plays on the Haitian Revolution turned it into a play the life of Harriet Tubman turned it into a play brothers and sisters we need to get back to that we might can't control what they put on TV but do you know how powerful a live stage play can be to the psyche of black folks we have to dramatize our history you ever wonder why you've never seen a movie on the net Turner resurrection why you never seen a movie on the Garvey movement why there's never been a movie on the Haitian Revolution you know why because the white man knows that if you show a people their potential using image and sound which are the two languages of the unconscious you can take the slavery out of the people overnight remember the conscious was conditioned through image and sound and the conscious to be be conditioned through image and sound speaking of conditioning yesterday Straight Outta Compton debut a movie about the story of wit attitude one of these gave USC 41 million dollars and ain't give a black college a damn penny but guess what Straight Outta Compton is one of the highest-grossing black movies of all time fifty million dollars in one day that's more than barbershop ain't it yup that's higher than most Halle Berry yup that's higher than most of the white movies that came out this week yup you know why I came out right now you got a campaign of the police killing black males we gotta justify it so we gonna dramatized black men acting like show with a cop still them well nobody say a damn thing about somebody told you television was all about entertainment television ain't about no entertainment you think scandal is just about entertainment scandal is about making sure the image of the black woman as a trifling Jezebel stays in the American sense you think empire is all about entertainment check it out lucious cocky Andre lucious Hakeem Andre and Jamal four black men one power-hungry one hyper masculine one hyper-feminine in the other one of booze wah and not one of these full black leading men in this sitcom which is black America's favorite not one of them has a positive relationship with a black woman would that Adolf Hitler say about brainwash Adolf Hitler said this ain't no big secret the way you get this done he said come up with your lie and press it upon the people's minds say it over and over and over never defend it just repeat it and sooner or later is something about the mind that will accept it as a fact and that's all they going with us I just checked my email when I was backstage a minute ago I got an email from the producer of Atlanta housewives Housewives of Atlanta the producer email she said they want me to have a therapy session with one of the sisters on the show on live television it might be the cute one I'm gonna do some research on it because I'm trying to see if there's some way I can loop this into some money for the fred douglas and marcus garvey again literally when i went out there no sup no sup well you know doc do mine in love with no dollars but if I can get a few for the school I'm gonna get a few foot of school but I'm with you on that elder as Garvey said we're gonna have to sell black people to black people Marcus Garvey said I have to sell the Negro to himself we got to do the same thing one thing that strikes me most about Garvey and his writing in his preaching and his teaching is how optimistically positive he was no matter how bad the circumstances is all of us in here are gonna have to become revolutionary optimist because black folk are always used to believing in the worst you're gonna have to condition them to believe in the best but the difference between the way we do it and the way they do it in the religious community is we're not telling them today's gonna get better cuz Jesus coming to change it we tell them it's going to get better because we come change you

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Length: 14min 44sec (884 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 26 2015