Marcus Garvey was a Black nationalist leader who, in the early 20th century, suggested Blacks should move "back" to Africa. He is the one who designed the red, black and green flag, sometimes used by BLM for instance.
That flag was celebrated by many, including by French rap group IAM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y7LcFfzEO0
In a speech he delivered in 1921, he said the following:
If you believe that the Negro has a soul, if you believe that the Negro is a man, if you believe the Negro was endowed with the senses commonly given to other men by the Creator, then you must acknowledge that what other men have done, Negroes can do. We want to build up cities, nations, governments, industries of our own in Africa, so that we will be able to have a chance to rise from the lowest to the highest position in the African Commonwealth.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5124/
When I listen to what some people say to justify mass immigration from Africa for instance, it is pretty obvious to me that they do not see Africans as equals, but rather as helpless victims who need to be rescued. As much as they claim to be antiracist, people on the left actually practice the worst form of racism. Some people call it "the soft bigotry of low expectations". Now matter how irrationaly and self-destructively some Blacks may behave, Leftists are ready to make excuses for them, as if we had no free will and no conscience of right and wrong, and as such, cannot be held responsible for the wrong decisions we make.
Back in 1963, Malcolm X warned Blacks that they were nothing but pawns in the White liberals' political struggle for power, and as much as I disagree with him on many issues, I have to concur with him on this particular point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7YmjWW9tx4
Speaking of Malcolm X, he also advocated going "back " Africa , when he was a member of the Nation of Islam. (30:56)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZMrti8QcPA
Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X probably meant what they said when they said it, but listening to them, I can't help wondering: didn't they know that American Blacks had been given the opportunity to move "back" to Africa a long time ago and that Liberia was created in 1822 for that exact purpose?
I have been listening to reggae and rap for decades now, and I have repeatedly heard reggae singers and rappers pay homage to Marcus Garvey and preach "repatriation" i.e moving "back" to Africa. Bob Marley is arguably the most famous reggae artist of all time. In his song Exodus, he says the following : "We're leaving Babylon, we're going to our fathers' land", meaning Africa, which is quite ironic since his own father was a British White man.
A lot of Blacks still use Malcolm X's rethoric today , when they obviously have no intention to put in practice what he preached back then.I have a lot of respect for people who practice what they preach even when I disagree with them. For instance, the Jah family are Rastas from Guadeloupe, my island of origin, who settled in Benin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1GWcKmmimE
As for those who only talk the talk, I wonder if we should just ignore them, expose them or make fun of them the way Terrence K. Williams does for instance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F463l6xx54
I remember a conversation I had, back when I was in college, with a fellow student who was from Gabon. He told me that, since Guadeloupe was still under French rule, the only way for me to be free would be to move to Africa. Back then, there was a civil war in Liberia so my reply to him went along the lines of: " Quand je vois ce que ça a donné au Libéria, je ne suis pas tenté par l'expérience."
Now that you know that I have been told pretty much all my life that I should move "back" to Africa, you will probably understand why I'm not shocked at all by the Identitarian concept of remigration.