When we look in the world today, we will see that the powerful nations and people are producing. Ultimate freedom and independence is founded on production, upon the creation of employment, upon the creation of labor and the creation of products for our own consumption. that the eating at lunch counters with our enemies, the sharing of hotels and beds with those enemies, the marrying and sleeping with their daughters, would not advance our interests ultimately as a people that consuming their products would not rescue us from subordination. must recognize, that social character is to a significant extent determined by the nature of labor, and social relations. recognize the ‘intimate’ relationship between the means of production and the character of a people, to recognize the ‘intimate’ relationship between the nature of the economic relationships of people and their social relationships one with. When we look at the legacy of Garvey we see again an emphasis on productivity. Consequently we see in the legacy of Garvey, a moving away from the imitation of our oppressors and a moving toward the identification with all that is Afrikan If our oppressors exploit us, then the imitation of our oppressor means self-exploitation. It equals the lack of self-respect and respect for the group, since the oppressor lacks respect for us as individuals and as a group.

It is equal to the treatment of the self and the group in a destructive manner. Imitation of the oppressor is then equivalent to the treatment of the self and one’s fellows just as the oppressor would treat us. You are going to complain on one hand about these racist people, about how they enslaved us, exploited us discriminated against us, how they and pillaged us, and then turn right around and see their behavior as something to be emulated and imitated. And we have this kind of silliness that goes on in this system today. We cannot imitate people who are our oppressors. At the very center of their lives is death and destruction.

Every advancement in knowledge is an advancement in the ability to kill and destroy the earth, kill and destroy nature, kill and destroy others, rape and rob the earth of its wealth, people and life forms, so much so that now they are having great difficulty even reproducing themselves. There’s death around them somewhere, which is the reason they are deadly as a people, why every advance of knowledge for them is an advancement in the knowledge of destruction. One of the things that impressed me most when I went to graduate school and rally had my first real contact with the white educational establishment was that these people are dead. One of the things that we must recognize is that our oppressor represents death our oppressor is deadly. Afrikan-Centered Consciousness Versus The New World Order: Garveyism in the Age of Globalism

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