RBG On The History of Our Flag: A Potent Updated Lesson

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Seems Like A Good Page But The Music And Script On The Page Slows Down The Loading And Makes Browsing Frustrating. This Happens Alot On A Page That Loads Music With Its Information. I'll Try Again Later. I Know The Music Sounds Good But I Think The Page Will Work Better Without It.

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Originally Posted by Rahameem Israel

Seems Like A Good Page But The Music And Script On The Page Slows Down The Loading And Makes Browsing Frustrating. This Happens Alot On A Page That Loads Music With Its Information. I'll Try Again Later. I Know The Music Sounds Good But I Think The Page Will Work Better Without It.

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At 1:09pm on May 28th, 2008,

Kamasi said…

What most Afrikan people do not know is the original flag contained the color gold for the stolen wealth. The UNIA officially adopted the colors (e.g. Red, Black and Green) under article 39 on August 13, 1920 at the Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World during their month long convention held in Madison Square Garden.


After a lengthy discussion by the delegates, the gold was left out because it was thought be ostentatious. Vincent states, "Historians who have discussed the Garvey movement paid very little attention to the Declaration of Rights...No other statement from the period comes close to the encompassing so many divergent nationalistic and civil rights goals." (Vincent, Black Power and Garvey Moment, p 101).


In the article, “On the Black Nationalist Flag, “,,, the colors originated with Marcus Garvey movement with black standing for Black people, red for the blood of our people, green for the land, and gold for the stolen wealth” ( www. usenetpl.


news. com )

Most Afrikan flags are made up of these three colors (with some countries adding the color white).



See Bob Marley’s 1971 album cover entitled “Survival”
(http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Image:BobMarley-Survival. jpg .


Also, The Jungle Brothers, in 1989, did a song entitled “Know Your History” from the “Forces of Nature” album which mentions the original colors (e.g. Red, Black, Green and Gold).


http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Done_by_the_Forces_of_Nature

When Marcus Garvey returned back to Jamaica, there was discussion to include the original colors. Contrary to popular belief, the color did not come from Haile Selassie Emperor of Ethiopia, but from Marcus Garvey and eventually the original colors were adopted by the Rasta movement.



In fact, Steel Pulse wrote these lyrics.

The song (Dub Marcus say), from the album “True Democracy” that goes like this:

Marcus said, Marcus said (Marcus Garvey)
RED for the blood that flowed like the river
Markus said, Markus said
GREEN for the land - Africa
Markus saaaaid
YELLOW for the gold that they stole
Markus said, Markus said
BLACK for the people – beautiful

http://debate. uvm. edu/dreadlibrary/gremp. html

Also, see the youtube video below of “Steel Pulse Live”

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