A lot of Pan-Africans and anti-ADOS people love to being up famous black immigrants in America who helped in the ADOS struggle to silence our current issues, so here's a thread about how Black Americans made these people the icons they are today.

Starting off with Malcolm X, the biggest figure these people have for their argument. This is ridiculous for several reasons because:

1. Malcolm was a Black American born in Nebraska, not the Caribbean
2. Only his mother was an immigrant, his father was an ADOS from Georgia

3. He rose to fame as a member of the NOI an org established for and by Black Americans

4. He got his entire ideology from Black Americans in the NOI

5. Even at his eulogy he was identified as Afro AMERICAN

6. There's not even a record of him visiting Grenada

WEB Du Bois is another name thrown out there, and is even more ridiculous than Malcolm. Du Bois is also only of half-Caribbean heritage, but unlike Louise Little, his Haitian father was deadbeat that left his family when he was 2. He was raised by his BA mother and grandparents.

So if yall want to use a glorified sperm donor as a way to claim 1 of our icons, be my guest. Another talking point is his life in Ghana. Du Bois was 95 years old at death & spent 93 years of his life fighting for ADOS and 2 living in Ghana.

Several decades fighting segregation, lynching and for rights for Black Americans far outweighs 2 years living in Ghana. I will concede that his Pan-African beliefs also go back several decades before his move to Ghana, but the vast majorty of his actions were for ADOS.

Next up is Marcus Garvey. Garvey was partly inspired by ADOS Booker T Washington's method of self-determination for ADOS, and even had a plan for establishing an institution similar to Tuskegee during the early UNIA days.

While in Jamaica, Garvey continuously flamed the the Jamaican people. Asserting that some thought of themselves as white and "uncouth". His UNIA org FAILED in Jamaica and it was in AMERICA, dealing with ADOS that his message started to become well received.

The UNIA boomed when he was in America, because we were way more well received. He made his name working with ADOS. The only reason he returned to Jamaica was because he was deported from the US (which ADOS fought against BTW), and even then he left AGAIN d/t dissatisfaction.

Fun Fact: the first ship ever used by the Black Star Line, the S.S. Yarmouth, was renamed after Black American icon Frederick Douglass. Just saying...

Next up is Kwame Ture. First of all, Kwame immigrated to the US at 11 and spent most of his life here. Though, he was always racially conscious Kwame's ideology and call to action was shaped by Black Americans in the South. This was further nurtured when he attended Howard.

Which if you'll recall is a HBCU that was founded for ADOS. Kwame gained national prominence during his time with SNCC, a organization that was formed and established by Black Americans. In fact, Kwame's infamous Black Power speech reflected feelings that many in SNCC already had

Kwame's use of Black Power wasn't the first usage of the term either. ADOS man Richard Wright used the term over a decade earlier, but the main point is that Kwame utilized the organizations and institutions set up by ADOS to form his core ideology.

And just like the great Marcus Garvey, he was also banned from Trinidad due to his Pan-African ideology in 1970. The same origin country yall use to throw in our faces didn't even let him return until 1996, two years before he DIED.

Some more nuggets: The #4 and #5 points in my Malcolm X reply also apply to Louis Farrakhan. Forgot to mention that. Another prominent name is Hubert Hatrison, who was largely inspired by the works of ADOS such as William Monroe Trotter, WEB Du Bois and James Weldon Johnson.

Cyril Briggs is another prominent name. Cyril Briggs was a disciple of an ADOS man named George Wells Parker who was instrumental in the formation of Briggs' newspaper, The Crusader, and the ABB. In fact, The Crusader was an organ of Parker"s org, the Hamitic League of the World.

Parker contributed financially to the paper's early existence. Briggs replicated many of Parker's views and ideology. Plus, Briggs first American journalism job was at Amsterdam News, a paper founded and establish by an ADOS man named John Anderson.

I can keep going, but yall get the gist. I'm not taking anything away from these people because they are icons who put in the work, but in most cases, they either had help from, were supported by, or used institutions/precedents that established by Black Americans/ADOS.

And some of these people you all claim, like Du Bois and Malcolm have ADOS ancestry anyways, so that makes these claims of them being "Caribbean" even more asinine, because even THEY didn't identify with the label, nor are they fully "Caribbean".