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Originally Posted by val-holla-ing
lol what?
marcus garvey would've told you to shut that shit up. i'm trying to think of a nice way to put this...when garvey said "back to africa", he wasn't talking about white people...at all...not even white people with dreads and bongs who are "down for the cause, jah blah".
i didn't know that Los Angeles was considered a third world entity! and what's this mess about being liberated from bondage? i'm sorry, man, but white rastas are probably the biggest slap in the face to any other rasta. i mean, how does it look when a white male (the most liberated creature on the face of the earth) says to the black male "yeah, brotha! we gots to liberate i-and-i, jah bless!" it's very similar to when malcolm x opened the muslim mosque in harlem and said, very openly, that they would accept help and donations from white people, but white people could not join, because they didn't understand the problem as deeply as the negro did (and still does). that's not to say that was the only reason he didn't allow white members in the muslim mosque, but that's a whole other tangent.
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you speak from pure ignorance, perhaps what you read in the library or on the internet. that is not Rastafari man, not by a long shot. Marcus Garvey to be specific, said Africa for the Africans, Europe for the Europeans, and Asia for the Asians, and America of the American Indians. He personally did not discourage and white people from working to uplift africa, as long as that was their sole objective. further, Rastafari himself called all Europeans who have the zeal to come to Africa and help to build and rebuild it up to glory. Rastafari is not a racist movement, but I agree with you, MOST white so-called Rastafarians are an insult to Rastafari and black people. They rarely are garveyites with a deep concern for africa, they rarely study the culture and the history, they usually just dread blaze and skank. They are Rastafarians. But within Rastafari, we dont call ourselves Rastafarians, we call ourselves RASTAFARAI! Rastafari are those who see the Truth of the Emperor, and hear His voice calling us all from the bondage of Babylonian captivity. Babylon is a state of mind, not a place or a people.
Further, in regards to yr black movements dissing whtie membership, INI is both a member of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, the largest community and organization within Rastafari, and commune with Nyabinghi and Bobo dread, and attend weekly masses at the Tewahedo Ethiopian Orthodox Church, where straight Africans accept InI with open arms. Wise up and quite thinking you know more then you do. ask instead of attack and you will learn instead of being corrected. seen?
and lastly, I dont know the last time you were in Los Angeles, but in a city where 3 people are shot dead every day, where 50,000 homeless men women and children wander aimlessly in search of food on streets with multimillion dollar houses. the contrast is the same as in apartheid Johanessburg. 3rd world.