fellow idren and sistren, i have been bothered by this question eversince i embraced rastafari: is there such a thing as a 'white rasta'?
the way i thought i saw it, rasta came about when the early rastas who were black people decided to take a stand against downpression from the shitstem! marcus garvey went about preaching about how black people abroad need to go from whence they came from, africa, etc and how they should not embrace the white shitstem ting... ok ok we all know about our past as rastas... rastafari has never been about religion because it is a culture. a black man's culture. don't get me wrong, rastafari is not a racist culture but at the same time it's not a white man's culture ie white man doesn't belong in the culture because of the reason why it came about in the first place! what, do you as a 'white rasta' expect to go to mount zion, ethiopia, away from the place where you and your ancestors were downpressed?? please..
unfortunately rastafari is slowly or quickly (depending on how you look at it) becoming a 'religion' because why? the white man wants to be in it, the indian man wants to be in it and the china man wants to be in it! it is slowly losing its essence because now the white man is trying to make like everyone can now be in it! like it's a club or something!!! personally, i feel that by a non black man being rasta, that is a silent mockery to the cause, to the culture. like this culture is just a shit culture and fuck! i also want to be in it! they put beeswax in their hair(bathroom locks) and go around saying 'i may be white on the outside but i'm black on the inside!' what bloodclaat ting is dat? a babylon mockery to the black skin! try as they may but they can NEVER BE BLACK! NEITHER ON THE OUTSIDE NOR ON THE INSIDE! eminem tried to be black and it failed and michael jackson tried to be white and that failed too.. i feel so strongly about this issue. in the devil man's world there is such a word as 'white rasta' but true rasta, who is black rasta, has to take a stand and say NO! THIS IS NOT A CLUB WHERE ANYONE AND EVERYONE CAN JOIN IT!!! a bloodclaat ting dis! and you find that in these desperate movies they have this dirty looking white guy in a dirty long beenie smoking weed wit a reggae song-usually three little birds by bob marley-playing in the background... that's how babylon portrays the supposed rastaman... comment?
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