Historically, the “back-to-Africa” movement, which sought to encourage the descendants of displaced Africans throughout the world to return to their homeland, was championed by African people living in America. Activist Marcus Garvey was one of the main advocates of such a vehicle for self determination and community empowerment.
Today, a Maryland-based organization has started the “Motherland Project,” a movement designed to encourage African Americans to leave the United States and return to Africa. Founded in 2003, the Center for Perpetual Diversity advocates preserving the white race through racial segregation. Their slogan is “Save Europe” and the first sentence of their mission statement reads, “Native Europeans are in grave danger of becoming extinct in the future. Actual extinction may still be hundreds of years away, but the point of no return may be reached in the next 10 years. If nothing is done, soon it will be too late.”
Interestingly, the group supports contemporary back-to-Africa rhetoric. In fact, leaders share that it will actively seek grant money to assist in relocating African Americans. To my recollection, this is the first time that a white power/supremacist group has taken such an approach. Now, this isn’t to say that they want what’s best for African Americans or Africa. On the organization’s website, founder James Schneider calls African Americans a “retrograde species of humanity.”
Supposedly, the project is run by an African American woman. Contact information on the website says that those interested in the project should contact the director of CPD’s Motherland Project, Sharity Ross-Petit, at (301) 792-5810 — when I called, the number wasn’t working. The organization has posted a so-called picture of Ross-Petit, 52, standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Given the history of such white supremacist organizations in America and the increased fervor with which Aryan and white nationalism has contrived over the past two years, I’m highly skeptical of such claims. Especially when CPD’s website suggests to white women that “you must never let a Negro get you in a place where nobody can see you. The nicest Negro will suddenly turn into a raving madman when he is alone with you and does not get what he wants.”
Don’t believe me? You make the call. —-torrance stephens, ph.d.
(Source: https://www.perpetualdiversity.com/reparations.html)
