Blessed Love Virtuous woman!
"Its one thing to talk when you are in a position of power to determine your own life, but when you've struggled with poverty all your life and things change for you, you've gotta give thanks for that."
Hmm... yeah, of course. Because house slaves are better priveleged than field slaves right? Because spiritual desolation and material wealth is better than the vice versa, right?
Because it's better to eat? Of course. Especially when the food filling your belly is being taken from the mouths of your brothers.
Let's be grateful.
Oh please.
If the I thinks that the situation between Saartje Baartman and Zahra Redwood, or more to the point, Alek Wek, are so polar opposite, then as I said before, it is wishful thinking. We are in Legacy. It is as simple as that. To embrace the legacy is to embrace the structural foundation. The outcome for InI is the same.
As I always say, I'm not into this compromise stuff, Sis. Ten. And I don't apprilove you jumping down my post, without so much as a greeting, just because you're looking out for how a few black individuals can get rich. That's easy, it's been happening for centuries... a few choice manipulable black people being lured away from the unified process of salvation because of Babylon sweets & treats. They are sacrifice, so that the rest of InI stay downtrodden. Poison. It is wickedness. There's nothing for me to grateful for... neither those poor.
The only privilege I have to my position is InI see through the illusion. It would be easy enough for me to gobble up sweets & treats too. To assume otherwise is presumptuous of the I.
I suppose you are grateful for "positive black role models" like Puff Daddy. Or Tyra Banks maybe? And what do you think of the potential black US Presidential candidate? Good huh?
I'm being facetious. But, the point is... this is all the same machine. Refute it.
I'm looking for the healing of the nation. We bun placating, compromise, blah blah blah. If it ain't Garvey-esque... we done with that!
We've tried everything else. From now, it has to be self-determinate or else it absolutely will not work. And you can't tell me about the ethos of "Face of Africa" being self-determination. Really think about it?
I mean, it's kinda cool, it's more pop culture to dose up the people. Whatever. But like I say, it's not for RasTa to endorse it.
My main point relating to the body markings issues, that you seemed to slightly miss, is based in response to the habit of comparing the ideals of livity we are inspired to trod in this time, and within the context of socio-cultural appropriation by Babylon, with those trodden by InI in a different time, and more irie socio-cultural context.
Many seem to think there is a one size fits all approach to salvation. Hence all the questions about who wears locs, and who doesn't, and winning beauty pageants as a cultural "victory" for Fari dawtas... but our livity is the salvational RASponse to the impositions of anti-christ livity in THIS time, and the spiritual psychological effects of mystery babylon, which we directly suffer, as a result of being a direct target group within their Babylon society.
People who are not fighting this in the same way, need not do exactly what we need to do to escape it.
People act as if I think either that, the village of natives in Amazonian rainforest should bun out for not wearing locs (if they do or don't, I don't even actually know). But they can do what they're doing, cos they are already in Zion, they're already in heaven, living amongst and with and of the elements. Same as Sistrin who adorn themselves in traditional beads and grass skirts. Even if they are in the city in the strong working as bank clerks, but when the relevant ilabration comes round, they dress in their traditional set up... it's all good. They are celebrating a time, a place, a condition of iritical freedom, and nature blessed grace that is now an aspiration of return, to that state of being. Hence it's celebration into modern times. They have a cultural ownership of those ivels, hence it is genealogically and physically theirs. Not mine, and not Zarah Redwood's. She has no innection to the feminine values being ilabrated by the Swazi maidens. If she did, she wouldn't be in the beauty pageant. Sight?
We have to hold an order and principle when WE are the ones dealing with the real and lurid details of Babylon life & death. We, in this context, have a need to adopt a protective livity. What we have to do to protect our ivels from the contaminations of the societies we live in are not to be compared to what the "Shangani, Tonga and Chewa peoples of Mozambique and Zimbabwe" did traditionally. Simply we are to take strength in the glory of our common ancestral cultural history, and see it as an aspiration that our forward movements gathers strength from ancient and iritical practice.
But the ivels to which Ms.Redwood is testifying by wearing locs does not support wearing belly button & breast out dress up. It would have been more comely for her to testify to her overstanding of her African inheritance by wearing a more regal choice of attire. And being that her people are more likely to be West African, Aso Oke or Kente (to name a few of the most common) would have been more becoming of a RasTa Queen.
We supposed to use our heritage to strengthen the conviction in our sovereignity, not as an excuse to let it all hang out, Sistrin.
But I'm sure that since you think that beauty pageants and international modelling contracts have much to do the liberation of our women... or even contribute positively to liberation ideals, I look forward to reading the reasoning.
Love love.
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