Why isn't there a holiday for Marcus Garvey in America?

No one is stopping you from writing your senator and bringing this issue up to him. And no, I don't suspect you'll write to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. She has a vagina and that offends your conservative evangelical sensibilities. You probably have animosity towards Senator Schumer. He's ... marginally progressive. That makes him a monster in your eyes I suspect.

The reason there's no holiday for Garvey in America is because he's not the hero he's cracked up to be:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Garvey

A closer look at his Wikipedia page shows that Garvey is a much more controversial and divisive figure:

"However, his black separatist views—and his relations with white racists such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) to advance their shared interest in racial separatism—divided Garvey from other prominent African-American civil rights activists such as W. E. B. Du Bois who promoted racial integration.

Garvey was a controversial figure. Some in the African diasporic community regarded him as a pretentious demagogue and were highly critical of his collaboration with white supremacists, his violent rhetoric, and his prejudice against mixed-race people and Jews. He nevertheless received praise for encouraging a sense of pride and self-worth among Africans and the African diaspora amid widespread poverty, discrimination, and colonialism. In Jamaica he is widely regarded as a national hero. His ideas exerted a considerable influence on such movements as Rastafari, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Power Movement."

I don't think most people would support parts of Garvey's ideology such as this, again from Wikipedia:

"In the U.S., ideas about the need for black racial purity became central to Garvey's thought. He vehemently denounced miscegenation, believing that mixed-race individuals were 'torn by dual allegiances' and would often ally 'with the more powerful race,' thus becoming 'traitors to the [black] race'. Garvey argued that mixed-race people would be bred out of existence.

Garvey's belief in racial separatism, the migration of African Americans to Africa, and opposition to miscegenation all endeared him to the KKK, who supported many of the same policies. Garvey was willing to collaborate with the KKK to achieve his aims, and they were willing to work with him because his approach effectively acknowledged the idea that the U.S. should be a country exclusively for white people and would abandon campaigns for advanced rights for African Americans within the U.S."

It is a bit easy to see why he isn't viewed in high regard to most Americans.

Good gravy, you're insanely boring and oblivious.
1. Copying and pasting text from a Wikipedia article is hardly research. If this is the best you could do? If I was your teacher, I'd give you a failing grade.
2. I didn't ask why there was no holiday for Garvey in America. Just showed you a possible way to rectify it. It's your damn desire/cultural priority that it needs rectification, not mine.
3. Why bother writing this thread AT ALL? Why post this reply? Seems like you think I have a say in any of this. And even if I did? You really are the opposite of persuasive.

Seems like you made your own thread pointless and moot, especially if you don't have the inclination to do anything about this cultural omission of a nonexisting holiday.

I started this thread on another forum:

https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1463586

I basically cut and pasted someone else's response to it.

It will never cease to amaze me why you'd think anyone here at a2k would give a damn about activity that happens in other forums. FYI: do you realize that's a textbook definition of plagiarism you admitted to?

There is NO RULE that says I can't start THE SAME THREAD on multiple different internet forums.

Long story short. Mr. Garvey was a devout RACIST, hence why he was controversial. America is not going to do anything special to honor a RACIST.

It might have been better if you'd done this research before you asked the question.

Or instead of asking the question.

So? As previously stated, this whole thread was literally pointless. Did you come here writing this thread thinking you were going to own whoever was randomly show up and argue for a Marcus Garvey holiday? And was abjectly confused when no one tried to run with that? So? You still decided to ... either assume that other posters MUST HAVE COME HERE in favor of a Garvey holiday (despite evidence to the contrary) and pretend you won the ... what clearly is a really dull one-sided argument with no one on the other side?