Rastafari is a movement about black liberation. Bob Marley was half white but race is a human construct, it is not "genetic", so to speak. If you are brown in our world you are a person of color, you are black. Whiteness is a construct of status, not heredity.
I can see white people being allies to the Rastafari cause, but I genuinely don't understand how a white person can be a Rasta after looking into the history of what Rastafari actually is. It's not just a typical spiritual practice where practitioners seek primordial truth. While that is part of it, much of Rastafari is building black communities and actively resisting downpression. Rastafari is about liberation for the black people.
It's not about all white people being "evil", as that is obviously not the case. It is important for black people to have black spaces where we can organize, reason, and mobilize. If white people would like to be an ally to that cause that is one thing...but it seems typical to me that so many want to claim Rastafari as something of their own, just like everything else. Rastafari is a BLACK movement.
Sorry if I offend. It just strikes a nerve for me, I've grown up in mostly all white spaces my whole life and it has been virtually impossible for me to try and establish safe places for black people without white people trying to hijack it and turn it into their own thing. Not intentionally of course, but I find it extremely insensitive. White people have everything, let us have this.
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