Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
WEST IS WEST
I do not tweet. But, I have read that Bison brother, Ta-Nahisi Coates of Atlantic Magazine, has suspended his Twitter account, rather than to engage in demonstrative dialectics with the Ivy League scholar with the big Afro, who also attacked President Obama. That man--Cornel West--seems to want to simulate the venal attacks, ad hominem attacks, of DuBois on Booker T. Washington and Marcus Mosiah Garvey, of the early 20th century.
Those attacks by DuBois and other Ivy League "Niagara Movement" Negroes as well as DuBois, certainly detoured and seriously divided the black nation, until M. L. King, arose in the 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. Dr. William Edward Burghart DuBois was a paid United States government agent, according to Dr. Tony Martin's RACE FIRST. DuBois had first urged blacks to "Close Ranks," in Crisis Magazine and to go fight in World War I, abroad, in Europe, segregated from U.S. forces, despite lynching, race riots and Jim Crow, at home. DuBois was later made, curiously, the United States' "Minister Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary," to Liberia to divert the 500,000 acre land deal that was set up by Liberia for the African Americans (UNIA), but was redirected to Firestone, instead, after the sabotage of the Black Star Ship Line; the trial; imprisonment and deportation of Marcus Garvey back to Jamaica.
While in Ghana in the 1960s, to celebrate Nkrumah's elevation to President of an independent Ghana, Dr. DuBois' U.S. Passport was revoked; so he, having already in intervening years, fallen from U.S. grace, died in Africa, which Marcus Garvey never reached .
I do not say, here, that Dr. West is an agent. Enough it is that West is West.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/17/ta-nehisi-coates-neoliberal-black-struggle-cornel-west?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other