I was waiting on someone to post this. Thank you.
Tariq is a Grifter, Garvey was a grifter, Umar is a Grifter. Just because you dislike one, does not make the other more legitimate. Just because someone comes forward, speaks about pro-Blackness, does not mean they are really pro-Black. If you read much of what Garvey said, you would see just how much he hated Black Americans. You would see how he was trying to get the KKK and other groups like it to support him, so that he could convince Black Americans to leave the country our ancestors helped build.
What is more amazing is that he came into the country with a similar mindset of a lot of foreign Black people who arrived later on, assuming Black Americans had nothing to do with the greatness of the country. Last, he scammed true believers out of their money, that they never saw again. Though, just like people are warned about Tariq and Umar these days, they were warned about Garvey back then by upstanding Black leaders who actually cared about the Black community.
I just wish my people would learn to look beyond the nice sounding rhetoric and actually pay attention to the actions. If they do not align, judge them by their actions not their statements. If we did that more, it would be a lot harder for those claiming to be pro-Black and care about the community to scam our people out of donations.