Shalom Y'all,
Today for our Black History lesson Masai Hoshea and I talked about true Melanated revolutionary, the late great Mr. Marcus Garvey! Mr. Garvey had one goal for us as a people and that was to see us self sufficient. Mr. Garvey understood the importance of having our own, and how much more further we could go if we as melanted people invested more in self sufficiency.
One way he work to help liberate us was to come up with what is now coined the Melanated people flag. The beautiful Red,Black,and Green flag! His wife came up with a pledge to go along with it,called 'This Flag is Mine' that can be heard at many Kwanzaa celebrations and the likes.
However there was a lot more to the purpose of them coming up with the flag and pledge. A song “Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon" was a song written by Will A Heelan, and J Fred Helf that was popular in the United States and the United Kingdom. The song followed the previous success of "All Coons Look Alike To Me”written in 1896 by Ernest Hogan it was one of the three coon song which "firmly established the term coon in the American vocabulary".
So in a 1921 speech appearing in the Negro World weekly newspaper, Marcus Garvey was quoted as saying…show me the race or the nation without a flag, and I will show you a race of people without any pride. Aye! In song and mimicry they have said, "Every race has a flag but the coon." How true! Aye! But that was said of us four years ago. They can't say it now aye!!!
This is personally why I think all Sunkissed households should have a flag and teach this historical pledge to their Seeds! Our household starts each morning quoting it along with affirmations,and prayers! Other way we work to keep Mr. Garvey's dream alive Masai and I have come up with different ways we could daily put into practice,what Mr.Garvey work so hard to accomplish for us. http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/07/23/8-things-about-the-black-liberation-flag-you-may-not-know/
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