The GARVEY'SOfficial Publication of the Universal Negro Improvement AssociationVOICE and African Communities League NEWNEW YORK YORK NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2019 $3.00 AFRICA after Berlin [Genocide] Conference 1884-1885 Atlantic Ocean Where is the Black Man's government? Where is his king and kingdom? Where is his president, his country, and his ambassador, his army, his navy, his men of big affaires? I could not find them, and then I declared I will help make them. Indian - Marcus Garvey - Ocean We must canonize our own saints, create our own martyrs, and elevate to positions of fame and honor Black Men and Women who have made their distinct contributions to our racial history. www.UNIA-ACLGovernment.com NOV2019 GARVEY'S VOICE Page 3 SAVE THE DATE Page 4 PRESIDENT GENERAL MESSAGE Page 6, 7 BERLIN CONFERENCE: THE TRUTH Page 8, 9 CONTINUED BESTIALITY OF FRANCE President General, Page 10 THANKSGIVING - NO THANKS TAKING Hon. Michael R. 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Michael r. duncan editor-in-chief raymond dugué • (718) 570-7350 printer all time printing • (718) 464-1400 Contributor by dr tingba apidta medicine jamaica family medicine • (718) 526-9491 E-mail [email protected] classified ad (917) 716-2506 NOV2019 GARVEY'S VOICE reflections of an editor In order for us to rebuild our THE PEOPLE'S FORUM empire, we as a people have to start imagining it, that is to say MOTHER SAMAD We welcome letters to The Dear Editor: The resemblance People's Forum, but they must that as we gain knowledge include (for verification from our enemies, we have to between Mother Samad and her mother - Alice, who was a purposes) the writer's name, address and cellular number. collect and apply it accordingly. member of the Black Cross This includes letters sent via Unfortunately we do not transfer a lot of the Nurses - is remarkable. knowledge to our people that we have gained from email. The name may be Jasmin Pitter withheld upon request. Letters working with this country. We have to transfer signed simply 'Name Withheld' knowledge and information gained to our own are not considered for print. African countries and our own people the world Letters should be as brief as over for defensive purposes as well as well as possible, and, of course, all possibly offensive purposes. As such, it would not letters are subject to editing. Letters containing the proviso be enough for a Black child to merely dream of 'Do Not Edit' are not considered being on the spaceship with white astronauts or to for print. Email letters to dream of being a part of AIG management. This only hch@unia- helps to maintain the servant mentality that is too prevalent (actually it is by design) in the Black community. We are just an extra or we are taken along as an extra. We need Black men and women to being the masters of technology, space, finance or medicine. We need to be in control. It isn't simply enough to just ride along and be along. We must have our own technology program. We must explore our moons and the other sides of the world. It is only out of mastery and the desire for mastery and, what may be a very bad word, the desire for power that mental growth takes place. To opt for equality - that we've done too much - does not do enough emphasis on mastery of our selves and our destiny and so forth. There is a difference in a child when he is going to school to master something as opposed to becoming a servant. The major difference is on how he interacts with the information that is being developed in the classroom and how he perceives that information and how he is going to use that information. To a good extent a person who is not headed for mastery is essentially interested in learning what as opposed to how. To a great extent his approach to knowledge is passive and he is more interested in memorizing and remembering what is told to him. He is learning more to take orders than he is to give orders. To a great extent, many of our so called educated Blacks, that is highly educated Blacks, are educated in that mode. Unfortunately, many of us go to school to get a job, for instance. We do not perceive it as a part of a massive effort to attain control and mastery of our situation and ultimately to outdo the european. You see one of the major problems we have as a people, and one of the major functions of euro-centric psychology, sociology, history and so forth has been to convince non-white people of the invincibility of white people, to convince us that the white man is not capable of being defeated, that he cannot assume his minority position in the world as he is. This being the case then, it has made us think that we have to accommodate him, that we have to get along with him, we have to live with him because they are in control and so forth. Well, that leads to a type of attitude toward learning. That means that you are not going to try to out-learn him, out-think him, out-maneuver him, you see. So, if you are going for mastery, then the knowledge becomes very important and you see it as a tool for advancing your own power interests in the world. If you're not going for mastery, then you see it as a means of carrying out efficiently the orders that are handed down. It also limits creativity because if we are to defeat the european, we are to master this earth, take back this earth from the european then we must out-think the european. We must then be creative, that puts the learning emphasis on the how-ness, the how to think, as such, and to the use of knowledge as a tool of mastery. It's a very different kind of thing, very different emphasis. I want to get a little more practical implication of what this means. As a result of the control, the paternalism of the europeans over Black people we must recognize that even if the european becomes good and nice, and accepts us and so forth, the fact that he would still be in control creates what we call a benevolent paternalism which still to a degree helps to maintain this passive mode of thinking, this passive mode of knowledge. NOV2019 GARVEY'S VOICE The Berlin Conference was held in Berlin, Germany, from November 15, 1884, to February 26, 1885. Among the evildoers present were representatives from thirteen different European countries: Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden-Norway, Turkey, and the USA. Due to conflicts that had arisen concerning claims to African territory, in particular the disagreement among Belgium, France, and Portugal over possession of the Congo Basin, the diplomats assembled to partition Africa and to settle territorial claims, as well as to discuss matters of future trade as they would steal Africa's abundant resources. The Berlin Conference initiated a greedy, brutal scramble for Africa. It resulted in the formation of the Berlin Conference General Act of 1885, which ensured that no one could claim African land simply by name. Because this meant that territories were claimed on a “first-come-first-serve” basis, it heightened the speed and brutality in which Africa was conquered. The Europeans did not hesitate to take advantage of the unsuspecting Africans by using brute force genocide, technology and trickery to con the natives of their land and resources. Prelude to the Conference [Genocide] From 1878 to 1885, Stanley returned to the Congo, not as a reporter but as an envoy from Léopold with the secret mission to organize what soon after the closure of the Berlin Conference, i.e. in August 1885, would become known as the Congo Free State. French intelligence had discovered Leopold's plans, and France quickly engaged in its own colonial exploration. In 1881 French naval officer Pierre de Brazza was dispatched to central Africa, traveled into the western Congo basin, and raised the French flag over the newly founded Brazzaville, in what is now the Republic of Congo. Finally, Portugal, which already had a long, but essentially abandoned colonial Empire in the area through the mostly defunct proxy state Kongo Empire, also claimed the area. Its claims were based on old treaties with Spain and the Roman Catholic Church. It quickly made a treaty on 26 February 1884 with its former ally, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to block off the Congo Society's access to the Atlantic.