Garvey

In Marcus Garvey’s passage entitled the “Motive of the NAACP Exposed,” Garvey attacks the NAACP and W. E. B. Du Bois on the basis that they are not fairly representing the “colored” population the title suggests. Garvey argues his point by assuming the position of the underrepresented “colored” man in an effort to connect with the entire “Negro” race, and also by emphasizing the differences in “colored” and “Negro.”
Garvey begins his writing with an introduction aimed towards “Negroes” announcing that he is preparing to explain why there has been so much resentment between his organization of the Universal “Negro” Improvement Association and the National Association for the Advancement of “Colored” People. Garvey’s second paragraph starts with an attack on Du Bois stating the “Du Bois represents a group that hates the Negro blood in their veins…” Here is Garvey’s first instance of taking the side of the proud Negro that is able to s...