Garvey, Rodney, and Caribbean Black Power

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There are numerous Caribbean Black Power Philosophers, however, the two that I feel share the most commonalities in their efforts to empower and unite their people are Marcus Garvey and Walter Rodney. Each ideology resounded with countless people in the African Diaspora. They urged Blacks to be pleased with their African legacy and free themselves from servitude in many structures such as financial, political, and mental.

In “Africa for the Africans,” Marcus Garvey was somewhat forceful in his endeavors at change amid the 1920s and past. He didn't have faith in just attempting to incorporate with the white individuals by campaigning for correspondence. Rather, he fancied that an African country with an armed force and energy to back it would make African-Americans safe everywhere throughout the world. This was esteemed the "Back to Africa" development. This purported development involved the movement of conspicuous dark figures back to Africa, where they would build up a solid establishment and provisional government for their new nation. He felt that blacks ought to attempt to enhance their conditions at their current locations. Similarly, as white Americans considered the United States as their home base, so too would the blacks consider Africa their home base entire with the notoriety and impact behind it. For example, if a dark man in southern Alabama were to be struck by a white, the effective African country would descend on the United States. Weight to rebuff the blameworthy would be applied and, if nothing were done, maybe real viciousness between the two nations would follow. For Garvey, physical power and impact was the way to picking up what his kin looked for. Maybe most eminent for Garvey was his part in the advancement of the United Negro Improvement Association. This gathering was centered around "the foundation of an all inclusive confraternity among the race; the improvement of free Negro countries and groups; the foundation of a focal country for the race, and the setting up of instructive establishments." Through this gathering, he could spread his thoughts everywhere throughout the world. Garvey could show African Americans to think beyond practical boundaries once more, and advised them that they had once been lords of extraordinary countries and would be once more.

        In one of Walter Rodney’s works “Black Power, a Basic Understanding”, Rodney conveys that the idea that Black power is “For us, by us”, “Fubu” if you will. Rodney was ready to go to anyplace that any gathering of Black individuals was set up to take a seat to talk and tune in. Since, that is Black Power, that is one of the components, a taking a seat together to reason, to "ground" each other. Black people need to ground together due to our collective experience. There was this uproar about whites being available operating at a profit Writers Congress which most whites did not get it. He knew that whites didn't comprehend that the verifiable Black experience has been addressing white individuals, regardless of whether it be pleading to white individuals, supporting ourselves against white individuals or notwithstanding denouncing white individuals. Black people's entire contexture has been, that the white man is the one to converse with. Now the new comprehension is that Black Brothers must converse with each other. That is an exceptionally straightforward understanding which any sensible individual outside of a specific party would get it.