"Where are Garvey's children?"

DOES IT ever seem to you that other people, you know the Chinese, the Americans, the Jews, followers and devotees of Elvis Presley, have anniversary celebrations with crowds of people all dressed up, street parades, hundreds of dozens of candles, fireworks, while we, you know, black people, have remembrances of humiliation, or remembrances that turn into something bordering on humiliation anyway.

Take August 17, for example, the birthday of Jamaica's first National Hero. Well, who is a national hero becomes a very important question here. Seems like they are mostly people who stood up for something, for which they got hunted, persecuted, humiliated and sometimes killed, and then end up on a coin, or as a truncated bust in a park as a symbol of what others might become should they get it in their heads that they too would like to stand up for something. Anyway, the Honourable Marcus Mosiah Garvey is one of those persons.

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