This is not in defense of Mr. MacTavish, however I do take exception to your statement that:

"the immigrant class never advocated the social and political empowerment of amorica's captive populations for fear of deportation."

The progenitor of the Pan-African movement which set African nations on the path to self government and saw W.E.B. DuBois emerge as its most celebrated mouthpiece was a Trindadian named H. Sylvester Williams. Caribbean or West Indian born Africans and their descendents have been in the struggle for the civil and human rights of non-white peoples since Toussaint L'Overture took on Napoleon. Even DuBois claimed Jamaican roots and today African-American youths identify more with Malcolm the firebrand and son of a Grenadian woman, than with peace loving African-American Martin.

Winston James gives a compelling account of the Radicalism of West Indians in America at the beginning of the 20th century, in his book "Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia"

The continued mis-education of children in the African diaspora only serves to perpetuate our discord. MacTavish is just as much a victim as the ones he vilifies.