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FREEDOM'S JOURNAL Issue #27 October 2nd 2005.
President Tutu's Farewell Letter 
It is with deep love and thoughts of a great future for the Negro race that we address you. Though we must bid you farewell at this time, absolutely unsatisfied with the state of our association and the manner in which this convention was conducted, we must take this opportunity to congratulate President Cimarron and Division #459 for the tremendous job they did in hosting the convention this year.
Eighty years ago our Founder wrote, “The truth has to be told so that we may know from whence our troubles cometh. Yet we must never, even under the severest pressure, hate or dislike ourselves… we must remember that we are all members of one race, rent asunder by circumstances.” Today these words ring home to us. The New York Division must withdraw itself from the convention at this time because the convention has become a caucus in which members are being dictated to by the PARENT BODY which constitutionally DOES NOT EXIST during the sitting of convention. The membership have been bullied and abused, insulted and mistreated by the tyranny of our so called leaders. For four days our members have waited to submit themselves to the will of the convention only to hear that it is the will of the President General and the Parent Body that rule this convention. We have seen members cry out only to be thrown out and abandoned by a convention that seems to be ignorant of their constitutional rights and sits in fear of who they perceive to be their rulers. We can not be a part of this any longer. Though this Division under the leadership of the 1st Assistant President General will never abandon its members, we came to convention not to seek the exoneration of a few but to seek justice for all. We will continue to stand on the constitution and to speak out against the wrong doings of our leaders, even if it means that we must stand alone. Still, we issue this warning to the convention assembled. Your first duty as members of this great association is to defend the laws of our noble organization and to uphold the rights of its membership. Those of you who feel that you are here just to do your job, whatever that may be, or those of you who feel that this struggle does not involve you, study well the lessons of our story. All that is required for evil to prevail is for righteous men to sit and do nothing! When faced with such recklessness, we must stand together and ride out to meet our destiny, for God, for Africa, and FOR JUSTICE! We leave you to ponder our fate, and await the day when the consciousness of this convention will rise without fear and apathy to meet the spirit of Garvey on the battlefield for our redemption. We will refuse to honor anything that is in opposition to the constitution that has come handed down to us from our founders and we will continue to fight against tyranny from within and without. We leave you now with the words of our founder: “We must have honesty, and if our leaders will not give us truth and honesty, we must cut away from them and choose others to direct us.” –Dr. Marcus Garvey.
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