“We have great hopes of Abyssinia in the East – the country that has KEPT HER TRADITION even back to the days of Soloman. Some of our peculiar sociologists when they discuss the intelligence of the Abyssinians try to make out that they are not Negroes, but everybody of ordinary ethnological intelligence knows that Abyssinians are black people, that is to say, black in the sense of the interpretation of the Negro. They are part of the great African race that is to rise from its handicaps, environments and difficulties to repossess the Imperial Authority that is promised by God himself in the inspiration: Princes coming out of Egypt and Ethiopia stretching forth her hands.”
(M Garvey)
“If you want to get right down to the real outcome of this so-called ‘integration’, what you’ve got to arrive at is inter-marriage.”
“Im right with the Southern white man who believes that you cant have so-called ‘integration’, at least not for long, without intermarriage increasing. And what good is this for anyone? Lets again face reality. In a world as colour-hostile as this, man or woman, black or white, what do they want with a mate of the other race? Certainly white people have served enough notice of their hostility to any blacks in their families and neighbourhoods. And the way most Negroes feel today, a mixed couple probably finds that black families, black communities are even more hostile that white ones. So what’s bound to face ‘integrated’ marriages, except being unwelcomed, unwanted ‘misfits’ in whichever world they try to live in? What we arrive at is that ‘integration’, socially, is no good for either side. ‘Integration’, ultimately, would destroy the white race…and destroy the black race.”
….. “Integration’ is called ‘assimilation’ if white ethnic groups alone are involved: its fought against tooth and nail by those who want their heritage preserved. Look at how the Irish threw the English out of Ireland. The Irish knew the English would engulf them. ……. “In fact look at history’s most tragic result of a mixed, therefore diluted and weakened, ethnic identity has been experienced by a white ethnic group – the Jew in Germany. …..From World War 1 to Hitler’s rise, the Jews in Germany had been intermarrying. Many changes their names and took other religions. Their own Jewish religion, their own rich Jewish ethnic and cultural roots, they anaesthetised , and cut off…until they began thinking of themselves as ‘Germans’. ……. The Jew will never forget that lesson. Jewish intelligence eyes watch every neo-Nazi organisation. Right after the war, the Jews’ Hagahan mediating body stepped up the long time negotiations with the British. But this time, the Stern gang was shooting the British. And this time the British acquiesced and helped them wrest Palastine away from the Arabs, the rightful owners, and then the Jews set up Israel, their own country – the one thing that every race of man in the world respects, and understand.”
(Malcolm X)
Personal to my own observation, ‘intermarrying’ does more to harmonise and neutralise hostility between communities than destroy each one’s identity, maybe not in the case of Asian style honour killings, but there is an exception to most generalisations. It is worth a reasoning though.
Peace.
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