Martin Delany's Black Separatist

Furthermore, he knew what attracted them to the Black Nationalist and knew the history of the Black Nationalism movement. That Black Nationalism was developed way back in the nineteenth century by African-American leaders in the United States; Martin Delany was one of these leaders. Martin Delany was an abolitionist, a soldier in the Civil War, and a graduate of Harvard Medical School. He firmed believed that African-American, and also other oppressed people such as the Native American had to fight for their rights. In his words,” The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors." Dr. Delany did not want to live separately from white people. However, at the time, he did not want to be a second class citizen: “I am not in favor of caste, nor separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men as Black, if I had equal possession and enjoyment of privileges, but I shall never be reconciled living among them

White America will never grow a conscience. In order words, equality will never be possible in a white dominate. Separatist have completely given up on the idea of unity with their follow men, in particular white men. In fact, they reject the integration of whites and African-Americans in society. At heart, the black separatist movement is a political movement that seeks total economic and cultural development isolation from other groups of people, in particular white people. Separatism is a sub-group of Black Nationalism. Meaning that, all black separatist are Black Nationalist, but at all Black Nationalist are black separatist. Dr. King was a dreamer and he dream of an American that is united as one. Where white and African-American sat down together at the table of unity. Since, black separatism comes completely against this, he would condemn