That's heartening to know that those are the principles, RasTafarIWork. I'm so weary of sensing people's resentment and anger at a history that can't be undone and at people who had nothing to do with creating that history.
I read somewhere in one of these threads that "supremacy" didn't necessarily mean superiority, but unfortunately that's what almost everyone thinks it means (and how some dictionaries define it). i don't see black or white myself. If there's a great musician with dark skin, I don't say "He's a great Black musician" - I say "He's a great musician". The same if he's a scholar, surgeon or airline pilot. It's because having heard racist people talk as a child and having heard such vile remarks to the effect that "Negroes are not human", I made a conscious choice to never dignify that perspective with qualifying somebody by their skin color. Every man is a human. We don't say "He's a great White surgeon" so why would there be any need to call out skin color in another case? To me, the need to use the adjective Black in such a case implies that it's really marvelous that this Black person could become a surgeon because "that kind" aren't usually smart enough to do things like that -- which is total bullshit and I won't be party to suggesting that there's anything exceptional about a person of any color achieving great things -- All JAH's children are exceptional.
The reality of our language is that the terms "black" and "white" when applied to people are very divisive, provocative and laden with racist connotations. It's simply denial to pretend that's not the case (e.g., look at His Majesty's desire to see them "eliminated from human society"). So since I regard all JAH children, regardless of degree of skin pigmentation, as exceptional and precious gifts of Life, I'm just going to be satisfied for the duration of the trod with embracing a doctrine of People Supremacy without any need to imply that anyone is superior or inferior based upon the color of their skin.
People of all shades of skin color have already achieved great things and will continue to do so, together and, JAH willing, without consideration of the skin color of the people with whom they are working to make such achievements.
JAH LOVE. ONE PEOPLE.
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