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bravecaptain
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CiaranMac
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Tommy BOO
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Setareh Juventina
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What a cool dude...eh! L&P _________________ Man is the only animal clever enough to build The Empire State Building and stupid enough to jump from it. |
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che
Joined: 19 Aug 2002 Posts: 988 Location: in the gutter, staring at the stars.
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dodgy geezer actually. if i remember rightly, he tried to get all of the blacks out of america and into africa (1930 - 1950???)/ that's all i know. |
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bravecaptain
Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 859
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 19:49 Post subject: |
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Halt! America!
America of white men's rule,
The God of Heaven calls to you;
You used the black man as a tool,
And proved of faith and love untrue.
Your Christian faith is all a lie,
If you do not some changes make;
You brought us here to make us die,
But God will save us for His sake.
There is a call to make things right,
And to your conscience we appeal:
For peace we are, we want no fight,
We ask you but the wound to heal.
We've laboured long in many fields,
To clear your waste and barren lands:
We fought your wars with manly shields,
But you've cast us off your hands.
America will flourish great,
If love and truth abide within;
And so we call upon the State,
To free itself from deadly sin.
The Negro's cause is holy word,
And God proclaims the mighty truth,
The angels speak with flaming sword,
And it is so to man forsooth.
Marcus Garvey 1934
I suppose blacks leaving a place where they were systematically brutalised, murdered and dehumanized and returning to the land from where they were taken may seem dodgy to some. Not me la.
He founded the Black Star line for trading and eventually repatriation.
"Our desire is for a place in the world, not to disturb the tranquility of other men, but to lay down our burden and rest our weary backs and feet by the banks of the Niger and sing our songs and chant our hymns to the God of Ethiopia."
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Tommy Tynans Lovechild
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 854 Location: People's Republic Of BS4 (Though always PL2 4Ever)
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checkout Burning Spears bloody marvellous Marcus Garvey album too, really good tunes n words n all that, if yer lucky yer can get the dub version of the whole album on the same cd too. |
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