Colleagues in Garveyism,
The end of the year is a good time to evaluate ourselves, look at our report
card so to speak. The question the UNIA/PECE Development Team must ask all
Black Leaders including Pan Africans is Are we living in denial? Have we
forgotten about what happened to the Black people of New Orleans, their
neighborhood schools, their churches, their way of life. And Haiti, how many
of us sent $10.00 to the American Red Cross Haitian Fund and then proceed to
forget about Haiti? It would appear that Black Preachers, Black Political
and cultural Leaders including African Nationalist etc. have sidestepped the
issue of long term Family Commitment. We sit by and watch as disaster
capitalists move in and take control.
Have we not noticed that when a disaster hit the original destruction is
erased in a hurry and what is left of the public sphere had been up-rooted
and replaced with a ³kind of corporate New Jerusalem² Look at what happened
to Africa and Latin America in the 1980¹s. It was a debt crisis that forced
countries to be ³privatized or die², as Davison L. Budhoo put it in his open
letter of resignation to the Managing Director of the International Monetary
Fund.
Another area where the Black Leadership is failing is in the area of
wholesale African solidarity. The PostColonial Cultural & Economic
Conference is expected to catch the attention of Black people across the
globe and come up with a Master Plan to lift the Black Race on a higher
plane of existence. Indeed the Right Excellence Marcus Garvey was a man of
the World. The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African
Communities League had branches all over the world including South and
Central America. As such the 21st century UNIA & ACL must follow Mr.
Garvey¹s leadership and join in the postcolonial growth and development
plans of such countries as Cuba, Costa Rica, Honduras, Dominican Republic,
Guatemala, Nicaragua, Mexico, Puerto Rico Venezuela etc.
December 11, 2010 (Cancun, Mexico) we read ³The Plurinational State of
Bolivia believes that the Cancun text is a hollow and false victory that was
imposed without consensus, and its cost will be measured in human lives.²
Such a report would have reached the ears of the President General Garvey.
History will judge us harshly if we the 21st century UNIA &ACL does not
follow his example.
At the recent ³World People¹s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of
Mother Earth², it is said that the Bolivia¹s President took center stage in
an effort to get the voice of the Bolivian people on record. As such, the
PCEC Development Team felt it our duty to publish a special Postcolonial
Nubian Trailblazers Supplement edition to showcase his thinking.
But who is Evo Morales? According to AMERICA VERA-ZAVALA -
http://www.inthesetimes.com/community/profile/3001 -- ³Evo Morales is a
polarizing figure in Latin American politics: a proudly left-leaning
indigenous activist who defends the traditional rights of peasants to grow
coca and describes the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas as
³colonization.² While opponents have labeled him a ³narco-trade unionist,²
the charismatic Morales enjoys widespread popular support. As In These Times
went to press, he was expected to win the special December 18 (2005),
Bolivian presidential election. His election would place him in power
alongside other Latin American leaders who are critical of America¹s
neo-³liberal² economic agenda: Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Lula de Silva of
Brazil and, of course, Fidel Castro in Cuba.²
The PostColonial Cultural & Economic Conference Development Team suggest as
part of our New Year¹s resolution, the global African Family give notes that
the Black Race has to do a better job of taking care of each other. Towards
that end we trust you will find this UNIA/PCEC Supplement edition has the
power, and quality, to attract your attention, your concern, and maybe your
curiosity to the point that you are willing to join PCEC in our effort to
improve life and living condition of Black People as we move towards 2014.
H. E. Wesley Jr.
Ambassador and High Commissioner to Zimbabwe, UNIA & ACL
Director of Operations, PCEC
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