It’s no secret that throughout the course of history at home in the Americas and abroad, black people have suffered tremendously for a factor they could not control, the color of their skin. It has left the black people of the world constantly fighting for their basic human rights. Personally, I believe that Americans almost practice a sort of caste system with black people only above people of color who have immigrated to the United States. It isn’t impossible for an individual to break their caste but it is rare due to the systemic and systematic racism that white America have had set in place for years already.Garvey’s Declaration addresses the oppressing party of black people and recognizes that the white privilege will no longer be accepted by the black community and he uses the Declaration as a stand to recognize this. Garvey had an abundance of declarations on this document that I feel are still to this day after almost a hundred years since the drafting and publication of this document not implemented. …show more content…
“Whereas the lynching, by burning, hanging or any other means, of human beings is a barbarous practice and a shame and disgrace to civilization, we therefore declare any country guilty of such atrocities outside the pale of civilization.” no longer are we being lynched, burned, or hanged, now we are being killed, in cold blood, often by police officers who have come to the conclusion that black lives do not matter. No matter how much we roar to the rest of the world that our people deserve to live, it seems that in the court of law, we do not. Police brutality has given way to practices that were said to have ended years ago and has stripped black people of their right to