MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT-GENERAL
If Not Now, When? Lets Take the Ship Back Home!

Greetings Garveyite’s,

As I am sitting here at my desk, my mind takes me back in history to the day when our Ancestors were brought to this country and other parts of the world on ships or boats. They didn’t know their destination or even why they were being taken away from their homes.

History speaks of all the hardship, trials and tribulations that they had to endure. But they never gave up, there was always that desire to fight for their freedom and the right to just be treated as Human beings, to be able to just live, take care of themselves and their family.

They developed a common bond out of necessity between themselves, no matter what tribe they were from and it didn’t matter what price that they had to pay. They paid it even with their lives.

Because of their fight, desire and determination to succeed, other Great Leaders of our race have continue that fight for freedom, equality, and justice to be treated as equals over the years. They never asked how ruff the waters were they just brought the ship home.

Today, we as members of the UNIA & ACL have an opportunity to continue that fight until we have achieved the vision of our founder the honorable Marcus Garvey and the UNIA the world over.

The United States, Britain, China and many other countries are constantly stealing and robbing our Mother land of her heritage and wealth, saying they are there only to help her with her development, while still trying to keep her under their colonial dictatorship.

Our mother land Africa is calling for us, not to come home to rule or govern, but to work hand in hand with our brothers and sisters there in the building and development of our ancestral land and our collective posterity. We the Negro People here in the Americas have the knowledge and training and our motherland has the resources.

All around us there is an air of change, we as a people must begin to change the paradigm of old. We must begin to bridge the gap between our African race of people at home and abroad. Our Ancestors did not complained about how ruff the waters were they just brought the ship home.

Mother land Africa is calling us, we as a people must, being of good Honor, Integrity and Character, put all of our differences and ego to the side and come to her aid. If not now when, lets take the ship back home.

Your Humble Servant

Cleophus Miller, Jr.

President General

UNIA-ACL 1918 & 1929

ONE GOD! ONE AIM! ONE DESTINY!

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