For the record Garveys Africa, I am an English Rastaman, and I agree with the I wholeheartedly.
One does not trod RastafarI without studying Marcus Garvey, and it is from Him that I learned plenty about self respect and dignity as well as the priceless value of culture, which awakened the rediscovery of I own roots and the drive to redefine the culture around along righteous lines. His calls for all white people of conscience to do whatever they could to avert the disasters of racial conflict moved I deeply and marked a stepping up point in I Livity.
Haile Selassie I gave the Shashamane land grant as a gift to the Black peoples of the world in recognition of the service they had rendered in defense of Ethiopia during the Italian invasion through the works of the Ethiopian World Federation. I pray one day I might pass through on a visit, but I'm home already, babylon though it is, so I won't be settling there.
And yes I, until equal rights and justice are actualized among mankind, there will be no lasting peace in the world and love between people will be rare indeed. The ideals of international morality and world citizenship are just flimsy illusions without that foundation of equality and justice, so I say with no apology to anyone that the nations of the earth do need the time and space to know and love themselves from a firm foundation before they can know true and lasting peace on any kind of scale among eachother, and no one nation can tell a next one how to do it. So if Africans say they need Reparations and Repatriation, I'm not going to argue, and as a man of conscience and morality I'm going to do what I can to bring justice just as I would wish anyone to do for I. It doesn't serve anyone but the evil people of this world to maintain a parasitic system of immorality and injustice. In fact it will only bring destruction on those who set it up and maintain it, so as far as I am concerned, it is in Europe's best interest to kill white-supremacy dead once and for all, since we did invent it and mash up the world.
And by the way, Blackman Redemption is actually one of I favorite Bob Marley songs.
On the topic of Bobo priests that has been going in this Reasoning as well; last time I went to Sabbath service with the Bobo Shanti, one of the priests did say to I that one day I could be a priest to I people, the key there being to I people. It makes sense to I, and would make just as much sense to the Bobo, who live the principle of 'every nation to their station', that Black priests should minister to a Black I-sembly. But the Bobo Shanti is an International Congress with branches all over the world among all people in this time, so it would make sense for the Bobo in South America to have a South American priest, and the Bobo in Japan (and there are Bobo in Japan) to have a Japanese priest, just as it would make sense for any English Bobo to have an English priest. That is just natural, since a man coming from the same roots and background is likely to have greater affinity and overstanding with someone, and from the perspective of priestly duties, that is very helpful, a must even. That isn't racism, that's just reality, and it is no obstacle to sharing and expressing love among I and I regardless of nationality or colour, because Haile Selassie I did already tell I and I that human beings are precisely the same, and that means they all carry culture and experience based on where they are from and what they have been through, and while it is One red blood in all of I and I veins, there are many and varied peoples and cultures in the world, which should be celebrated and loved for what they are.
Blessed love
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