Joe Biden and Marcus Garvey: When Forgiveness Humiliates Forgiveness
- USA, Joe Biden, in the last few days of his term of office, has carried out a historic barrage that should mean the reading that should inevitably take place in the case of some of his well-known beneficiaries. Or is it not the fairness of justice, the “blindness”, the way to recognize that it is a myth, the result of total politicization, to anticipate the vengeance of Trump A. Fauci L.Cheney, M. The “preventive forgiveness” given to Milley, etc. ?
Or does it not deserve reflection, at the same time, the laughter of the separation of powers by Biden’s executive forgiveness to his son Hunter, or to those whom Trump immediately – and similarly, before others – turned to his surroundings and his loved ones?
But there is one of those dislikes of Biden which, from a different point of view from that of justice, should say: It's given Marcus Garvey, a former black entrepreneur. On the one hand, if justice takes time to arrive, because Jehoshaphat’s forgiveness does not forgive anything: Garvey, who has died for 85 years, has been convicted in a case of falsehood, and has therefore been convicted.
And, on the other hand, although its vital expertise is memorable, and we must not underestimate its socio-political shadow, the one that Garvey suffered, compared to the one that many others had to suffer and suffer in the fight for the civil rights of blacks in the United States. At least some of them would be quite – and rightly – favoured by the president’s executive forgiveness.
But also, because the trajectory and the political-social thinking of Garvey are at stake. Although trying to judge things in their time and context is not only human, but also intellectually demanding, wanting to see them in the line of Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Garvey later… is to bleach them, using a game of words that he would surely not have liked anything, for nothing else.
Garvey was the precursor of black racism in the United States. And his “Return to Africa” project found a welcome as good, or even more passionate, as the black people of the time, within the white supremacism that was at its best, as an essential element to ensure the “whiteness of America”. No wonder. This is not the only case either.
He complacently describes the relationship between Garvey and Madison Grant in Jonathan Spiro's biography of Defending the master race (pp. 257-263). ). That is, his entente with the author of what Hitler called “my bible.”
Couldn't Biden find something cleaner to make a gesture of friendship in the long and unbridled history of the fight for the civil rights of American blacks?It's
just a gesture of Garvey.
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