What was NAACP leader W. E. B. Du Bois alluding to when he stated that Garvey's Black Star Line, a black-owned fleet of steamships, "…arose and disappeared, and with it went some $800,000 of the savings of West Indians and a few American
Negroes…" in his 1923 biographical sketch "Marcus Garvey"? A) Garvey's incompetence and dishonesty as a business leader
B) Garvey's prowess in running a successful enterprise
C) Garvey's idea of encouraging self-sufficiency by encouraging black-owned businesses
D) Garvey's insistence on establishing an independent nation in Africa
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).