Eleazar, why do white Rastas always ask this question??? Not to be rude, but what can be done is obvious (obvious but difficult). The I must join the fight to end oppression of all kinds...economic, spiritual, and racial. That means fighting this Babylon Shitstem just as all the Bredren and Sistren do. It doesn't mean that the I must snivel and apologize for what some numinous idea of the I "ancestors" did...InI want to know if the I even know if the I's family even owned slaves or took part in that shit or if the I just thinking the I must apologize for something the I wasn't part of because the I is white. Apologies are meaningless without action. Stop feeling guilty and debasing the I and get up and live. John the Baptist said,"Do work meet for repentance."
Also, stop lumping all white people into one category of "evil downpressors." Even certain groups of white people been downpressed by the shitstem. InI am half white and half Puerto Rican. Of course, my puerto rican family been downpressed in this country and in Puerto Rico, with the government occupying it and abusing it. In the past it was hard to find work and my Puerto Rican Brothers and sisters lived in poverty and to this day many of us do. But, even the white side of InI family come from Ireland to escape death and the destruction of their culture and the downpression of the English. Here, InI family was forced to eek out a living in the Appalachians where to this day they are poor, with lack of education, and seen as trash by the outside world.
However, InI will say this...RastafarI is a movement of Black Consciousness. A consciousness InI cannot ever fully reach as InI experience while similar in many ways is still different from my Black Bredren and Sistren. InI must strive to overstand and just walk the Rasta Livity.
All over the world, throughout history, people been downpressing other people. Whites, Blacks, Latinos, Asians...all have been the evil ones at one or another point in history. Change need to come from within InI and without InI. And it begins with InI. What can white people bring to Rastafari? The same things that all can bring. Faith and a desire to change the world and end downpression. Fight for Inity, peace, love, and freedom for all peoples of the world.
Eleazar, JAH love all people, HIM told us what to do. Study HIM words and live them. Read the Ible and live it. Pray and Bless up.
HIM Live and Reign Iternally.
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