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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Du Bois was criticizing Garvey's management of the Black Star Line, indicating that it failed and resulted in significant financial losses for its investors, which reflects on Garvey's incompetence and possibly dishonesty in handling the business.

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