Posted on 08/17/2016 4:28:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The son of early 20th century black nationalist Marcus Garvey on Wednesday said his father’s 129th birthday marked the perfect day to begin a public push for a presidential pardon to exonerate Garvey for an unjust conviction.
Dr. Julius W. Garvey, a New York surgeon, wants President Barack Obama to clear his father’s name from a mail fraud conviction that caused Marcus Garvey to be deported from the United States to his native Jamaica.
The younger Garvey said he has lived his whole life with the fact that his famous father was a convicted criminal, which he believes is part of the reason his father is less well-known and accepted among mainstream Americans. …
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Garvey thought he was a victim of a Jewish conspiracy because of his friendly relations with the Klan.
>>gets my vote...<<
Liberia should have been broadened.
A lot of good a pardon will do him .... he’s dead and can’t enjoy it, but he will now be able to vote for Benghazi Clinton in the next election.
The man was a fraud. The conviction needs to stand.
By the time Hussein is finished (January 20, 17), he will have pardoned more felons than all the presidents combined.
And they are coming to your neighborhood.
Enjoy your “transformation.”
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The effort to deport Marcus Garvey started in 1919, during the last years of the Woodrow Wilson Administration. Wilson, a famous Progressive and Academician, was also a virulent racist, doing his utmost, with the cooperation of the Southern Democrats, to put Negros (African Americans) back into 2nd class citizenship status. One famous and successful effort of his was to segregate the US Civil Service, which, under prior Republican Administrations, did much to lead Negros into middle class economic status.
Yeah, no. His solution was basically ‘get away from the white people’. If I were alive back then I might have seriously considered that. His conviction was a piece of bs, the FBI even hired it’s first black agents to go after him and they found nothing.
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