Marcus M. Garvey Jr.

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Leader of a 'Black Speratist' movement, founder of the Black Star shipping line. Where does he belong in US history? Civil Rights activist, revolutionary, or dreamer?

Marcus Garvey
 
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"Garvey collaborated with outspoken segregationist and white supremacist Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi to promote a reparations scheme. The Greater Liberia Act of 1939 would deport 12 million African-Americans to Liberia at federal expense to relieve unemployment."
 
Leader of a 'Black Speratist' movement, founder of the Black Star shipping line. Where does he belong in US history? Civil Rights activist, revolutionary, or dreamer?

Marcus Garvey

Seemed like a good idea at the time

A man who had no bad goals, yet his ideas failed.Why?

The atheist Rand didn't fail, she made $$$$$ off of suckers for her "selfishness IS higher thought" scam. See examples here.
 
Leader of a 'Black Speratist' movement, founder of the Black Star shipping line. Where does he belong in US history? Civil Rights activist, revolutionary, or dreamer?

Marcus Garvey

Seemed like a good idea at the time

A man who had no bad goals, yet his ideas failed.Why?

The atheist Rand didn't fail, she made $$$$$ off of suckers for her "selfishness IS higher thought" scam. See examples here.
Sociology was different a hundred years ago
 
Leader of a 'Black Speratist' movement, founder of the Black Star shipping line. Where does he belong in US history? Civil Rights activist, revolutionary, or dreamer?

Marcus Garvey

Seemed like a good idea at the time

A man who had no bad goals, yet his ideas failed.Why?

The atheist Rand didn't fail, she made $$$$$ off of suckers for her "selfishness IS higher thought" scam. See examples here.
Sociology was different a hundred years ago

"Group think" goes back to the dawn of communities; of course, so does selfishness/Objectivism. A base emotion becomes a 'philiosophy.' :)
 
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