The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-03-18

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Marcus Carver, is the name Of . i
coal black negro Of the purest African
type. He is native of the Island Of
Jamacia and Is described as being
muscular, chunky and short of build,
thirty years old, very well educated. al
traveller, Journalist, an orator, and a
human encyclopedia OF his own race.
He sees in the no distant future a.
Black Republic to be known as the
UNITED States of Africa,
Although opposed in his idealism
and aspirations by such leaders of his
race in the United States as Robert
Motion, head of Tuskegee Institute, W..
E. D. Dubois, editor of the Crises. and
a number of others, he has organized
q big following and has been proclaim
ed by large organization as the pro-
visional president Of the Black Re-
public, the new u. S. A"
He says that Africa has 400,000,O00
inhabitants, with a soil as rich as
any the sun ever shone on, and is
therefore entitled to a place in the
sun; il 60,000,OO0 Anglo-Saxons, So
100000 Germans, 100000 Belgians
are entitled to a place, Il can not see, :
he says, why Africa can not have a
place-a big spOt-in the self-same
sum-"
I'VE have no animus," he, declares,
against the white man
4All we desire as race is place
in the sun and an opportunity to work
out our own salvation.
He has selected the United States
to begin his propaganda and opera
tions because the negro real estate
holdings in the Harlem section alone
exceed 100000, 900; that there are
four known millionaires paying taxes
there. ten half millionaires and more
than score rated at over 100000;
saving bank holdings in the district
are put at over $30,0O0,000, and two
of the banks are owned and operated
by negroes.
Aware also that there are a million
negro farmers in the United States
owning more than twenty million
farms, that there are 100000 negro
homes and that the records show tie
negroes purchased $225 ,OO0,0 900 Lib
erty bonds, this Jamaican, who pro-
poses. to be their Moses shrewdly
selects this country for his activities
in pushing and pursuing his ambi-
tious enterprise.
Carver has succeeded in establish
ing newspaper which bears the title
of the Negro World and has establish
ed a steamship line which. will be
known as the BLACK Star Line cap
italized at $1O.0OO,OOO, of which 81
100000 is said already to have been
paid in.
Ise has met and is still meeting with
stubborn opposition especially from
the negro churches for his creed calls
for a purely negro religion.
He says that the white mans reli-
gion is unsuited for negroes because
negroes are REQUIRED to believe in
white God, a white heaven peopled
with white angels.
He cites a number of historians to
support his contention that Jesus
Christ was black, and he declares that
the white mans missionaries have
been but the advance agents of slave
hunters, rum sellers, who have des-
poiled Africa and ruined our racial
heritage
1t is stated that eighty per cent of
the negro clergymen of the United
States are opposing Carver in his
operations and activities, and one
negro, supposed to. have been al
crank. entered his editorial sanctum
and fired four bullets into his body
but none of them hitting fatal spot.
Since this attempt to assassinate
him has made the Jamaican all the
more popular and is increasing his fol-
lowing.
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