Marcus Garvey: The Great

THE EDITOR, Madam:

Marcus Garvey deserves his place on the $100 note and I agree that only he should be there.

Anybody who stood up for black people’s rights against all odds, as he did AND at the time he did, can only be a great man. He is Jamaica’s foremost national hero, and rightly so.

Both JLP and PNP governments have been hypocrites towards Garvey’s legacy, though. Why Marcus’ life and achievements are not part of the school curriculum yet, I do not know.

It has been reported that Norman Washington Manley tried to defame Marcus on a number of occasions and even tried to prevent him being named a national hero. Of course, Alexander Bustamante, being the political animal that he was, thought otherwise and sought to placate the majority black country that our black hero deserved pride of place.

There are persons in our country who are still trying to diminish the role Marcus Garvey played, even in our partial independence from Britain.

We should reduce this reliance on English literature and focus more on the literature concerning Daddy Marcus weh did come fi free us.

MARK TROUGHT