Jahcub,
No thinking person would try to deny that RastafarI began as a movement among people who are labeled as "black" by society or that the Song messengers dispatched by JAH to spread His Truth were also people who are labeled as "black" by society. But like anything that is based in Truth and is Iternal, the RastafarI movement grew (by Divine design) far beyond that, praise JAH, to spread across the earth as a People's Movement that integrally involves people of all appearances and origins, and hence, an inclusive movement that ceased to be the purview or exclusive domain of any type of elitist grouping (e.g., no societally-defined or self-identified group possesses a monopoly on the Lord Our JAH or His Truth).
Even such earthly (not Holy) pastimes as the games golf or baseball may have been regarded as being begun by people who are labeled as "white" by society; but, like it or not, they are now People's games and a bigot has no choice but to accept that or deny reality. Racist mentality finds precious little (and ever shrinking) refuge as JAH People of the world inevitably come together and I-nite.
No human is sub-human. There's nothing particularly remarkable about the fact that JAH chose an incarnation with darker skin or that RastafarI was born among people of darker skin unless you somehow think this is remarkable because people with darker skin are lesser people than others. Despite racist beliefs to the contrary, that's never been true and all manner of greatness has emerged from people who happened to have darker skin pigmentation. JAH clearly had His reasons for how He chose to reveal Himself, but I can assure anyone (based upon His Majesty's own words) that perpetuation of racism and racial strife among His Idren was not one of them.
TRUTH
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