RASTAFARI RIGHTEOUS KINGDOM

AFRICAN FUNDAMENTALISM

!!!A Racial Hierarchy and Empire for Negroes!!!

!!!Negro's Faith must be Confidence in Self!!!

His Creed: ONE GOD, ONE AIM, ONE DESTINY.

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The time has come for the Negro to forget and cast hehind him his hero worship and adoration of other races, and to start out immediately to create and emulate heroes of his own. We must cononize our own saints, create our own martyrs, and elevate to positions of fame and honor black men and women who have made their distinct contributions to our racial history. Sojouner Truth is worthy of the place of sainthwood alongside of Joan of Arc; Crispus Attucks and George Willian Gordon are entitle to the halo of martyrdom  with no less glory than that of the martyrs of any other race. Toussaint L'Ouverture's brilliancy as a soldier and stateman outshone that of a Cromwell, Napoleon and a Washington: hence, he is entitle to the highest place as a hero among men. Africa has produced countless number of men and women, in war and in peace, whose lustre and bravery outshone that of any other people. Then why not see good and perfection in ourselves? We must inspire a literature and promulgate a doctrine of our own without any apologies to the powers that be. The right is ours and God's. let contrary sentiment and cross opinions go to the winds. Opposition to race independence is the weapon of the enemy to defeat the hopes of an unfortunate people. We are entitle to our own opinions and not obligated to or bound by the opinions of others.

 

                  A PEEP AT THE PAST

If others laugh at you, return the laughter to them; if they mimic you, return the compliment with equal force. They have no more right to dishonor, disrespect and disregard your feeling and manwood than you have in dealing with them. Honor them when they honor you; disrespect and disregard them when they vilely treat you. Thier arrogance is dut skin deep and an assumption that has no foundation in morals or in law. They have sprung from the same family tree of obscurity as we have; their history is as rude in its primitiveness as ours; their ancestors ran wild and naked, lived in caves and in branhes of trees, like monkeys, as ours; they made human sacrifices, ate the flesh of their own dead and the raw meat of the wild beast for centuries even has they accuse us of doing; their cannibalism was more prolonged than ours; when we were embracing the arts and sciences on the banks of the Nile their ancestors were still drinking human blood and eating out of the skulls of their conquered dead; when our civilization had reached the noon-day of progress they were still running naked and sleeping in holes and caves with rats, batsand other insects and animals. After we had already unfathomed the mystery of the stars and reduced the heavenly constellations to minute and regular calculus they were still backwoodsmen, living in ignorance and blatant darkness.

 

                    WHY BE DISCOURAGED?

The world today is indebted to us for the benefits of civilization. They stole our arts and sciences from Africa. Then why should we be ashamed of ourselves? Their modern improvements are but duplicates of a grander civilization that we reflected thousands of years ago, without the advantage of what is buried and still hidden, to be resurrected and reintroduced by the intelligence of our generation and our posterity. Why should we be discouraged because somebody laughs at us today? who to tell what tomorrow will bring forth? Did they not laugh at Moses, Christ and Mohammad? Was there not a Carthage, Greece and Rome? We see and have changes every day, so pray, work, be steadfast and be not dismayed.

 

                NOTHING MUST KILL THE EMPIRE URGE

As the jew is held together by his religion, the white race by the assumption and the unwritten law of superiority, and the Mongolian by the precious tie of blood, so likewise the Negro must be united in one grand racial hierarchy. our union must know no cline, boundary or nationality. like the great Church of Rome, Negroes the world over must practice one faith, that of Confidence in themselves, with One God! One Aim! One Destiny! Let no religious scruples, no political machination divide us, but let us hold together under all clime and in every country, making among ourselves a Racial Empire upon which "the sun shall never set."

 

                     ALLEGIANCE TO SELF FIRST

Let no voice but your own speak to you from the depths. Let no influence but your own rouse you in time of peace and in time of war. Hear all, but attend only to that which concerns you. Your allegiance shall be to your God, then to your family, race and country. Remember always that the Jew in his political and economic urge ia always first a Jew; the white man is first a white man under all circumstances, and you can do no less than being first and always a Negro, and then all else will take care of itself. Let no one inoculate you with evil doctrines to suit their own conveniences. There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself. "Charity begins at home." First to thyself be true and  "thou canst not then be false to any man."

 

                  WE ARE ARBITERS OF OUR OWN DESTINY

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own creative genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit, and eternity our measurement. There is no height to which we cannot climb by using the active intelligence of our own minds. Minds creates, and as much as we desire in Nature we can have through the creation of our own minds. Being at present the scientifically weaker race, you shakk treat others only as they treat you; but in your homes and everywhere possible you must teach the higher development of science to your children; and be sure to develop a race of scientist par excellence. for in science and religion lies our only hope to withstand the evil desighns of modern materialism. Never forget your God. Remember, we live, work and pray for the establishing of a great and binding racial hierarchy, the founding of a racial empire whose only natural, spiritual and political limits shall be God and "Africa, at home and abroad."

 

         

 

The time is Now, Black Man

God Accepts No Excuses.

* A message sent from Kingston, Jamaica, February 1934

Once more the urge has come to us to fight the great battle of life, under the banner of the mighty Universal Negro Improvement Association, with the colours of the Red, Black ad Green. Our confused and disorganized world is now presenting another opportunity for us to organize ourselves with the supreme object of racial establishment. Racial establishment, I say, because the time is now for us to determine what we are to be in the affairs of struggling humanity. We must be a Nation, we must be an Imperial Whole, we must be people standing together strong and firm, conscious of our duty and our responsibility to ourselves and to our God.

The Negro is no cast-off, it is true that within the last few centuries white men have enslaved us, and scattered millions of us in the Western world, but we are still a majority of our continent- Africa, we are the majority in the territories of the Caribbean, we are a sizeale minority in the Unitd States of America. We must now completley free our minds to think in terms of full Manhood and determine our own destiny.

 

          

 

The Negro must go to work and hammer out a constructive civilization, he must participate in every branch of human activity, and raise a standard so high as to be comparatively worthy. He must not fall below the yellow man of Asia, nor the white man of Europe and America, because if he does in the scheme of human achievements, he will be regarded as the lowest creature of God. God looks down upon the world of light and wisdom and expects man to embrace His glorious gifts and use them to his benefit. Man must pay his tribute to the Almighty through his works. White and yellow men are doing so in the development of their particular civilization. The black man must now harness himself to nature and show and prove his worthiness. While other peoples have wrought with great energy, even to the point of exhaustion, the Negro has not yet started, but still has to build his particular civilization to a standard that others can pay tribute to him.

Let us get ready. There is no time for laughter, no time for fun, no time for anything else but a serious concentration on duty. This is the call hat is made to the Negroes of America, the West Indies, and South and Central America, and of the homeland- Africa. There is no excuse, there is no shirking this duty and responsibility. Do not say, "Well I have succeeded individually, and I don't care, let the other fellow look out for himself". You will be judged not only as an individual, but as part of a race, and if your race is not condemned to inferiority, the reflection is on you. This is the work of rich and poor, black and brown, and everyone who is a part of the Negro race, if the race is to be saved from shame and disgrace.

Remember God is not like the men to accept shallow excuses. He is positive. He is firm. he made is what we are as a group, and like the Israelites, He shall think and deal with us as a group, so remember it is not our individual selves, but it is the collective whole that will be weighed in the balance of racial worthiness. We are not only going to be judged as being denizens or residents of a particular country, but we are going to be judged as a whole, just as the twelve tribes of Israel had their special functions, so the Negro, scattered though he may be, has his functions as a whole. let is realize it, and perform it, let us dedicate ourselves to the task.

I have the honour to be,

your obedient Servant

Marcus Garvey

President-General