I Reasoning on this has always been that Africa is for the Africans. I think many Rasta people who are not of African decent get confused when they look at the place Africa has in this time. No offence intended to the I personally Idren, but normally I think this comes from over-reliance on reggae music for education about the Most High and the RastafarI movement, when in reality, the only way to reach H.I.M is through knowing the Iself.
So when an English or Indian or Chinese youth comes to I saying he wants to 'repatriate' to Africa, I really don't buy it for a second. For someone to Repatriate to Africa, they would have to have been taken from it in the first place, and no Indian or English men or wombmen were ever stolen from Africa, because last time I checked, they weren't from Africa.
I and I all know that mankind originates in Africa Ethiopia, and that is why in this time, the Most High reveals H.I.Mself in the kingly character of Haile Selassie I, the Black king of the only African nation never brought under the yoke of colonialism who traces His ancestry back to King Solomon and the Root of David. That doesn't mean that everyone is African in this time though, and to think that not being African makes you somehow inadequate is obviously not knowing and loving the Iself if the I isn't an African. I know from studying I own story and Reasoning in Iself that before the romans came to the land I call home (now called Britain, after Brittania, the roman name for the land) I people were living in relative peace among themselves, trading tin with the African continent, and combs were hardly a thing. Those that weren't growing locks were combing out their hair with their hands and spiking it with natural gum into spikes so hard they could spear an apple on them. That is I roots, and I had to seek and find them, because all the romans left for these modern his-storians to go on was propoganda about mindless barbarians with 'snakes' for hair.
The I is Indian, and to this day I and I can see Rootsmen in India living Ital, growing long long locks and burning ganja in a big chillum pipe, so its not like the I has to look hard to find the I's roots beyond the economic decision that led the I's family to move to Kenya, where the Indians replaced the English as the 'ruling class' after the 'end' of colonialism.
Forward to the I's Roots, that is one of the many things RastafarI has taught I, so if I'm living in Africa, that makes I an exile, just like His Majesty was when He came to live in England in 1936, but in reverse.
His Majesty is not seen by just Black people. Seventy two different nations came and bowed to Him on the 2nd of November 1930, and its not like Haile Selassie I sat in His palaces doing nothing and never stepped on a plane. He travelled all over speaking of Iniversal Human Rights and International Morality even in the face of Mussolini's assault in 1936. I and I can read these words, even hear from people who met the Man in flesh and heard these words with their own ears and looked into the eyes of the Most High.
If I and I know I and Iselves, these things that His Majesty speaks of are natural to I and I, because any man who knows Himself and loves Himself can easily extend that love to others, no matter what colour their skin or eyes or their place of origin. A man who knows and loves Himself can't stand to see anyone abused or robbed or treated injustly, because He knows that the Most High grants everyOne the same Equal Rights to live their lives without prejudice or malicious interferrance. So I and I see and hear the plight of the African nation, which Haile Selassie I (who is the King of Ethiopia) worked to uplift above all others, and know that Repatriation and Reparations are due to those that were taken away into slavery or forced into economic slavery in their own land. That is a matter of International Morality, especially for those nations directly involved in the same atrocoties, because I and I as RastafarI know that bad seeds only bear bad fruit. This is why I and I see the situation in the world today where plenty of people don't really like or trust White folks, because in their experience, Europeans are synonymous with the worst kinds of trouble.
I hope that helps the I Idren.
Blessed love
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