A fair question if its an issue to you. I have never knowingly met a self-proclaimed white Ras in person, but it’s a question with a lot of answers surely.
The significance of a western black person (I don’t like the terms ‘white’ and ‘black’ as they’re divisive government classifications, inaccurate and backwards-facing but for the sake of this I will use) revering the image/idea of a white Jesus / white Christianity as their saviour, and a liberated white person acknowledging the King of Kings and what he represents, are two very different scenarios. If ‘God in ones own image’ means literally a mortal deity with similar skin tone, eye and hair colour, ancestral nationality, white people could be wrong to look to Jesus also. I know that white people parodying black people can be the target of ridicule for identity confusion, but why more so than black identification with the west? A similar scenario could be that of the Babylonian woman, thoroughly identified with a paternalistic, exploitative regime that keeps her sisters in downpression, imaging she has freedom, and the man who recognises this and chooses not to exploit her but to support her growth as another human spiritual being – he can know truth, recognise right from wrong, guide a sister, but can he be feminist if he is male? I would say in his actions he can, but he cannot experience femininity in the first person, though his presence is greeted with appreciation.
Asserting strong identity creates a clear ‘other’ category and white skin / white mind does not fit where blackness is raised up, but, where spiritual livity is concerned there are no boundaries, consciousness expresses itself as us, over we claiming consciousness.
Jah bless.
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