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@nicholas_saunders @ViXY_DBC @KathyLK @ml @palestine @israel regarding "Some religions have their own countries, so why not more of them?" The answer is because you don't fix bad things by making more bad things.

Below is a quote from Marcus Garvey, a black separatist and unfortunately a KKK collaborator, from far back in 1921.

If you'll take note of the nations England and France, today we condemn the notion of them being ethno-nationalist. As we damn well should.

Fellow citizens of Africa, I greet you in the name of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League of the World. You may ask, what organization is that? It is for me to inform you that the Universal Negro Improvement Association is an organization that seeks to unite into one solid body the 400 million Negroes of the world; to link up the 50 million Negroes of the United States of America, with the 20 million Negroes of the West Indies, the 40 million Negroes of South and Central America with the 280 million Negroes of Africa, for the purpose of bettering our industrial, commercial, educational, social and political conditions. As you are aware, the world in which we live today is divided into separate race groups and different nationalities. Each race and each nationality is endeavoring to work out its own destiny to the exclusion of other races and other nationalities. We hear the cry of England for the Englishman, of France for the Frenchman, of Germany for the Germans, of Ireland for the Irish, of Palestine for the Jews, of Japan for the Japanese, of China for the Chinese. We of the Universal Negro Improvement Association are raising the cry of Africa for the Africans, those at home and those abroad. There are 400 million Africans in the world who have Negro blood coursing through their veins. And we believe that the time has come to unite these 400 million... https://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/blackspeech/mgarvey.html
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