We talk with passion. This is nothing to be offended by. As handed down by our forefathers and creators and carriers of this culture we now call Rastafari. The science of adapting your language to suit the context or to suit the target audience. Before you worry about Garveys Africa speech, look to the forefathers who we won't apologise for.
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In the words of Peter tosh, the great speech at the one love peace concert regarding Jesus and Christianity from our standpoint in the West:
....."That we long to hear a gun fire, we long to see one die, cos' learn this man, white man teach I and I say;
'I and I ha fe dead go a heaven'
Why? That them can come a Jamaica come take away the whole of the Sun, you no seen? And inherit the bloobath earth. And we gone away, heaven, gone drink milk and honey...cos' we are what? Fool(s)! They tell we say 'cow jump over moon and dish run away with bungo clippin' spoon'...Me a tell you. You a check them thing, eh? That is to mek we gaze up there...Learn this man, ...you say we game this here? Its just some games with Colmbus and Henry Martin and Francis Drake and Bartholemew Dealascassis, who was the first man to come round here with cross round him neck, fe come trick black people and say, 'well bwai right now black people is Israel. If we want to hold them, the only thing we can hold them with is tell them say, "see the cross here, and fe follow Jesus him soon come back" '.....look how bloodbath long them wait upon Jesus, eh? all now 'til bloodbath. All the War in the earth Jesus can't do a thing about it that grass can't, you no seen? And who ha fe go an' do that? It's I and I have to come together with love...seen? Heartical love and respect for each other, you no seen? Because them little fuckers are done with...you no seen? Yes I!!"
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