Why is it that I can no longer read the original post of this topic? Has it been removed or hidden? If so, why?
Raybob, the system of economic slavery you speak about is not comparable to the system of chattel slavery endured by black people under colonialism, which was far more horrific than a 9-5 or school, mind numbing though it is. And fire on the very idea that colonialism is mans true nature by the way, it came out of the most damaged, depraved and destructive corners of mankinds illusions, and is a distinctively European invention cannabalised from Rome. Although I can't read the original post still, it is undeniably true that RastafarI, while from creation, arose in this dispensation in response to the evils of slavery and colonialism committed against Black African people among others. In that sense, yes I, it is a Black thing, and since I and I hail a Black King, there should be no argument there, no matter the colour of I and I skin. It was those evils that Haile Selassie I came forward and worked to dismantle and destroy from the earth and restore in people the world over their knowledge of themselves as divine beings capable of shaping the world for truth, equal rights and justice.
Plenty of Europeans who call themselves RastafarI need to hold a serious meditation about their own roots as well as the roots of RastafarI and the role they have to play and sacrifices they have to make, because if any man comes to I with a RastafarI 'philosophy' devoid of its Black anti-colonial roots, I know it's a dead thing. Marcus Garvey did speak on the fact that a tree without roots won't flourish and that is a universal principle. I wouldn't be who I Am if I didn't know there was a purpose in Europeans sighting Haile Selassie I and knowing Him as the Most High, but far too many bring with them to RastafarI the assumptions gained from a life of privilege they don't even realise they have until it is lost to them along the trod. What many haven't realised is that the hardships they endure as RastafarI people in babylon (and I don't deny the hardships) are actually often but a fraction of what people have endured for hundreds of years just for being Black, and it was that experience that did give RastafarI it's inception in this time. Any man who denies it, no matter his skin, is just as blind as the fools who ask I if I think I'm Black.
I and I duty as European RastafarI is to dismantle the systems of neo-colonialism and white supremacy that plague the world and work towards Reparations so the stolen Ethiopian sons and daughters can get their Repatriation home. That is only fair and just and Europe and America can expect nothing but judgment and destruction until they right their wrongs and treat the rest of mankind with due equal respect and dignity in all things. This I and I must do in full knowledge of I and I own roots in Europe, and those go far deeper than the atrocities of slavery and colonialism. There are not just things to hate and regret in I and I roots, and to love the Iself is the only foundation from which the love of truth, equality and justice among all people can spring. RastafarI people have known it since Marcus.
Blessed love
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