some wonder what attallah shabazz has to do with garvey. a teenage girl from grenada is inspired by his message with support of her father and mother, she set sail to montrÉal, canada where her uncle is a member of the university so all of this, not just the acronym so we understand what was intended, the universal influence, starting to feel something like that. following her position on english, spanish and french she became the negro world newspaper where she and an african-american man called him and one of the conventions, presidential chapter in the united states, long story short she was my grandmother, he was my grandfather, my dad's parents, the household was absolutely routed by a foundation set in the african diaspora. it wasn't based on the outside. that was passed down. as we learned in history there is a crisis we pay for pride. as we gather and listen to others and have an exchange i am hoping we don't stop here. when they talked about inviting me to grenada for emancipation day and acknowledging my father he is one of eight,

and i am so very honored right now to ring to the podium ambassador attallah shabazz, the eldest daughter of malcolm x and doctor betty shabazz. she is an activist, an author, ambassador, a motivational speaker. she was six years old when her father was assassinated. and as so many people whose ancestry i guess you could say came from the caribbean as mine did as well, her grandparents were crusaders or marcus garvey's organization, universal improvement association so at this time let's give a warm welcome to ambassador attallah shabazz. [applause] >> i'm going to have to update wikipedia. [laughter] because i am no activist. they take away your intellectual powers by putting in something else. and somehow or another that has more life than it. i have my, someone's piece here just so i can get the letters that came to you earlier and i asked in advance to pardon me because when i said with doctor garvey over breakfast i have dyslexia so hopefully i can do justice to the letters i am writing. i would like to say greetings to this distinguished assembly of people who founded the camp and c