History cannot be avoided. As much as InI would really like to get past the race issue, it is alive and well due to the scars of recent history. Gideon, the I asks; why should we talk about racial differences or ethnic differences? In watching movies like Roots or Lumumba, or walking through the streets of the ghetto and seeing black youth beat by white cops daily, one can clearly see why.
Anthropolgically speaking, culture is defined as a "shared understanding".. meaning a group that sees things with a shared overstanding. Our culture is Rasta, yet due to circumstances, there are some who will label themselves Rasta and not hail Sellassie I as JAH. This makes our culture a difficult one to really put a finger on and also slows our movement. This is also why it is important for the different houses to exist and work in harmony, sticking to the ancient laws (like that of the Nyabinghi).
Like Ark-I said, this is the downpressor's plan! To plot ones against each other so that no one can be successful in revolting against their plans. They have the massive right where they want them, at war with each other and themselves. At this point, revolution as we know it is just not realistic. The group Bambu Station (out of St. Croix) have a lyric that I have fully taken in "Revolution is mental revelation"... InI must free ourselves in this time, this time around the circumstances given us by the government are so that revolting is impossible due to disunity. And this comes full circle to the reasoning on how InI can become economically free- that is revolution.
It is of high meditation for one to come to the deep inner knowing that InI are all of ONE root. This is something the world is not yet ready to deal with as the times are causing the heat to rise. But InI must give thanks for knowing our root, no matter the physical color, InI are all of Ethiopia: science will prove this as well as scripture. And like Gideon so rightly states "if their is race at the root, then it has to be the race of everyone. If black is the root color then everyone is black." Everyone sprang from the black race, but InI cannot be color-blind and must deal humbley with the reality that is at hand: racial lines. It will not be dealt with by completely ignoring it or trying to erase it from our minds, it takes healing. It is very important for all Rasta, no matter the color, to work at the healing of black people, the healing of Africa.
I give thanks for the I's, Ark-I, Gideon, The Rock.. the reasonings are powerful! Keep forward!
Blessed Love
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