Ok, as for the timeline I posted my message in Ras B should not have been offended inless their was a reason to be offended. The Topic is False Rasta's, and that is what I am talking about, clearly anyone who has made it to this site I believe comes with knowledge from their own point of view that should be respected, so it would not be directed to anyone who makes appearances on this forum. I didnt downtrod how anyone talks, it is much easier to understand a accent from the carribeans when it is being spoke to you but not when you are reading it, for the most part because the government of Jamaica or any other island in the carribean has established a dictionary for the dialect of english.
Its not a language, it is a dialect of english, Sister Menen I said that it was a way to communicate without the slave masters knowing what they were talking about because it was of their native tounge from Africa also. Well how could this be if the first slaves of that area in the carribean and especially the ones who were deployed in what is now South America, had their tounges cut out, why? Because they didnt want them to communicate. Early slaves in America didnt learn much english or how to speak it from the slave drivers in the early days just the same as the slave drivers who ran Jamaica. But America had a headstart in teaching the language although the treatment they gave to the blackman was still the same, hatred. As for the carribean they still didnt want to teach them anyway to communicate and still cut the tounges out because of all the blacklashes that were brought on the slaveowners when the Africans retaliated but again again they were put down with more oppession.
To say that this is RastafarI speak is odd to come from someone as wise as you when TafarI didnt speak good english. Im not expecting people to change I just want to understand them like I said its easier to understand the dialect when its being spoken to you, I speak and conversate with Africans from time to time who share the same carribean dialect as Ras B.
And I find it also odd that TafarI's speeches when spoken in whatever language was never in a slang, and even the late Marcus Garvey. Garvey himself shyed away from it. No english is not a perfect language it is similiar to every language, a way to communicate.
Im sorry if I may have been aggressive in my earlier posts, I was cool, calm & collected when I made this one, making sure I had read and did external studies to make sure my post would be correct and proper.
Thank you for your time,
Ras ElIjah
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