Dear everyone,
My understanding of it all (to sum it all up):
At first when people expressed the view that, in their opinion, white people cannot be rasta, white people including myself thought "It is wrong to deny someone the right to learn from HIM, take HIM as the fulfilled prophecy of prophecy of when MG said "Look to africa", reject babylon, the culture which unfortunately many people reading this may have been brought up in (as surely they don't want us to go and "join" babylon), live immersed in nature, pursuing union with JAH, and knowing ones self spiritually through devleoping ones self livity".
However, to my understanding of it, no one on this forums wishes to deny any white person the right to do these things as stated before, to know Iself spiritually for example. There was much confusion over this, as people assumed that saying a white man cannot be rasta means that they want to refuse him the right to do these things, to know himself, etc.
The only thing that, in the opinion of the people here, they do not want white people to have is the label "Rasta", due to the fact that this is SPECIFIC to those who, in recent history, have been stolen from Africa, denied of the birthright to have a surname etc.
And I think that is fair enough, even for truly "serious" white people who follow Rasta, (but not call themselves it) who wish to help black people reparate to Africa.
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Having said that, I do still burn the idea that all white man are evil. For example, if this were true, why would Hemphill, a white person, actively step down in labelling himself "rasta" for the greater good of Rasta people??
Are we all agreed that not every white man that ever has lived, is ever living, and ever will live is evil? And therefore it would be wrong to pass judgement purely based on the skin colour?
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As said before, if a white person comes in and changes the definition of Rasta as a black political movement, this is a different thing.
But, is it agreed that every white man living in the world is not evil? If anyone wishes to disagree with this and say that all are, then why would Hemphill step down for the greater good of the Rasta movement?
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Please tell me if you think this is a fair summary of the whole discussion,
All the best,
Joe
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