look to africa(east)
" Many people believe that what Marcus Garvey
said in 1920, ("Look to Africa, when a black
king shall be crowned, for the day of
deliverance is at hand"), came true in 1930,
when Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned the
new Emperor of Ethiopia, and became known
as Emperor Haile Selassie .
It is after the crowning of Selassie that the
Rastafarian movement officially began ."
www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/rastafari/people/marcusgarvey.shtml
"...... Garvey defended these
controversial actions by exhorting his
followers:
You can have your own king, your own
emperor, your own pope, your own dukes,
your own everything---therefore, don't bow
down to other races for recognition. . . . A
white king has no more right to drive in a
golden coach than your king and sovereign.
Their pope has no more right of putting on
sacred robes than your pope. . . ....."
"... Coronation of an African King, a three-
act play written and produced in 1930 by
Garvey in Kingston, dramatized those
ceremonial symbols of regnant power adopted
officially by the UNIA at its second convention
in 1921. The Negro World headlined in the
following terms: "ANCIENT ETHIOPIAN
CEREMONIAL COURT RECEPTION REVIVED AMID
SCENES OF UNUSUAL POMP, MAGNIFICENCE
AND SPLENDOR BY U.N.I.A...."
www.international.ucla.edu/africa/mgpp/intro01
“As one who knows the people well, I make no
apology for prophesying that there will soon be
a turning point in the history of the West
Indies; and that the people who inhabit that
portion of the Western Hemisphere will be the
instruments of uniting a scattered race who,
before the close of many centuries, will found
an empire on which the sun shall shine as
ceaselessly as it shines on the empire of the
North today.”
– The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro
Improvement Association Papers PP. 53
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