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Black Perspective |
| After
reading several "exposes" and
other mainstream christian publications
about Rastafari, after talking with many
people about it, I decided to write an
article about one of the most delicate
subjects: racism. It seems that so many
people think the movement of Rastafari is a
racist movement, that I decided to study
some material that claimed Rasta to be
racist or partial in race. Is the movement
holding one race superior and another
inferior as the critics say? Why is it that
people seem to think the movement talks
about superiority of one race over another?
This article is written to serve especially
those people that struggle with one of the
above questions. |
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it comes to matters such as slavery and
black history, Rastafari puts a great effort
in educating the minds of the people. After
the personality of His Majesty Haile
Selassie, this is the second important topic
of the Rastaman. Lest we not forget, there
are numerous Rasta tracks like the one
"Do you remember the days of
slavery" from the great Burning Spear.
Now I would say that "half the story
has never been told" and everyone with
a little consciousness in the head can
realize that it is a good thing to tell that
other half! The truth might be an offense,
but is never a sin, and the truth shall also
set you free. There is nothing racist about
telling things how they are. So there must
be another part which "exposers"
gladly use to stir up the christian public
opinion against the Rastaman. Let me first
localize that part of Rastafari Message that
people seem to perceive as racist. I can
bring it down to just one quote, that of the
honorable Marcus Garvey. Marcus said:
"When white people look to God from
their own white perspective, we as black
people will have to look to God from our own
Afrikan perspective". Whatever Marcus
ment, it is an answer to the downpressing
force of babylon. The white man's God had
proven himself to be partial in favor of the
white man, as he thanks his god every day
for the power he has and the money he earns
over the back of the slaves. Marcus told the
children of Afrika to look to a God that
would not be partial towards the white man,
but towards the sufferer, the black man.
Rastafari compares the western world with
babylon in the old testament, and black
people with the Jews in exile on the old
testament. A strong part of the message is
livicated to black consciousness, liberation
and repatriation. Are all these things
racism? Do these things speak of superiority
of the black man over the white man? When
Rasta says: "Black is beautifull",
does that automatically imply "White is
ugly"? It is surely brought as such by
these "exposers". And too many
upright christians believe them and think
that the movement of Rastafari is holding
one race superior and another inferior. A
serious allegation which has to be rebuked
by strong reasoning. I will explain why it
is not racist to say what Marcus said, I
even will show to you why it is racist to
find Marcus Words offensive! Let me start to
give four facts to place everything within
the right historical and spiritual context: |
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| FACT:
Over 400 years ago a serious trade in human
beings from the continent of Africa started
taking place to fulfill the needs of the
white plantation keepers that possessed soil
stolen from the original inhabitants. |
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| FACT:
Christianity in a corrupted, white biased
form was used to keep the slaves spiritually
in bondage, making them believe they are
inferior to the white man. |
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| FACT:
Central headquarters of the most powerful
and biggest christian organizations in the
world are all located in the western world
or babylon. |
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| FACT:
The richness of the west (christian) world
is gathered by plundering the rest of the
planet, while the church has been a major
supporter and contributor to this
wickedness. |
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to overstand how the movement of Rastafari
came to exist in the first place, you have
to realize the above four facts. Whether you
like it or not, christianity has been a
leading force in causing the Afrikan
holocaust. What do I say? Christianity? I
mean white christianity. I have yet to see
an Ethiopian Orthodox priest blessing arms
of oppression as you can see the pope doing.
And that exactly is the point that Marcus
Garvey makes. It is obvious to see, that the
god of the white man, when he exists, can
not be the God of the Ethiopians, cannot be
the God of anyone that seriously wants to
follow JAH. Because the God of the Bible,
Jah, the God of Israel and Ethiopia, is
partial, in favor of the sufferers! It is
not Jah, that teaches a white racist
theology. The way black people are treated
by white christians, well, let us call that:
"the white man looking to God from
their own white man's perspective". |
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| Tragically,
it is not only white people having this
white perspective on the Creator. The
doctrine of white superiority has not been
abolished together with slavery. Slavery has
not been abolished in the economical and
spiritual form, just to mention two points.
Over 400 years black people in exile have
been manipulated and brainwashed by the
spiritual institutions of babylon: the
churches! This downpressing force has been
maintained in a lot of churches until this
very day in those places where the movement
of Rastafari originated: The Caribbean!
Pictures of a white Jesus hanging in black
churches, scholars send to bible schools in
the United States runned by people who
believe it is the grace of the Lord that
build America's "civilization",
and I do not speak about the American
Aboriginal here! There is a strong force
trying to keep black people down. There is
still too many white people looking to God
through their own white perspective, trying
to brainwash the children of Africa with
their white-centered theology. Trying to
keep black people in mental slavery. And
white people too, because only a
JAH-centered theology can bring freedom. Any
theology aimed at holding one race superior
and another inferior is slavery in itself.
White people keep themselves in slavery when
they keep on thinking they are superior (or
inferior!) over black people. |
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a lot of honoust christian people do not
realize this, but I have met numerous of
them that are convinced, that the richness
of the western world today is a direct
blessing of Jah. These people forget that it
was the green lands of others that was
occupied, yellow gold robbed of other
civilizations and red blood of slaves and
other victims that build the great cities of
this modern day babylon. The commandment of
Christ to spread His message across the four
corners of the earth has been abused to
legalize a global plundering. Everywhere the
"missionaries" came they brought
violence, destruction and sicknesses. The
cross became a symbol of downpression rather
than salvation for every nation that has
been brutalized in one form or another by
this white christianity. What they spread
was everything but the gospel of salvation,
and if they said something about Jesus
Christ it was only to portray Him as a white
downpressor! What they said was "Jesus
in the sky will take you in his heaven when
you are a good committed slave" |
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is the situation in which we find the
movement of Rastafari, waking up the
sufferers, telling black people not to
believe the lies about a white Jesus and
America being "God's own country".
These are the circumstances in which you can
hear the Rastaman's call to look to Africa
to find a better perspective on the Creator.
Rasta doesn't say that white people are
inferior, but Rasta rejects white
christianity that preaches white
superiority. Rasta doesn't say that black
people are superior, but Rasta says that Jah
is on the side of the sufferers. Rasta calls
upon black people to realize the strong
connection that Jah has with Ethiopia
because the white babylonian theology
preaches that black people are cursed people
(the so called curse of Ham). I have also
studied some material from so called
christian people that claim only white
people are human! The white theology speaks
lies about black people, blatant lies about
the Savior as well! Rasta prophecies to the
churches to stop preaching the white Jesus,
to stop co operating with babylon in
brainwashing black people. Because the
movement of Rastafari teaches black people
that babylon speaks lies, the people are
waking up. Churches can no longer maintain
an attitude of ignoring the Rastaman's
voice. They have to take a listen to what
Marcus Garvey has to say about having a
black man's perspective on Jah, not a white
man's. Because it does not mean you have to
be a blackman to be accepted by Jah, but you
have to realize that Jah is the God of the
Sufferers. If you are a white person, you
should not look to God from the idea that
the white race is the most blessed on earth.
When you are a white man you should realize
that Jah is on the side of the sufferers.
That maybe what you see is poor people when
you look at the sufferers, but when you look
to your black bredrin and sistren with the
eye that JAH gives you, you will realize
these are the people Yeshouah spoke of when
He said: "Blesseth are the sufferers
for they will rejoice!" |
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you agree with the present situation of a
christianity that is fooling both black and
white people by preaching the superiority of
one race or civilization over another, yes
then I can imagine why you think the
movement of Rastafari is racist or partial
towards black people. When you see any act
of commitment towards the liberation of
black people as threatening to your own
spiritual scheme, isn't it time to wake up?
When you think, that the western world is
build upon the blessings of the Most High,
when you honestly think that the western
world has had a christian culture for
centuries, it is time to read your bible
again and compare what you read with what
you have been tought at school in your
history class. You should open your eyes and
realize that (when you live in the white
western world) you dwell in babylon, the
babylon that is described in the last book
of the Bible, the Apocalypse. The same
babylon that has been vandalizing this
planet for centuries, preaching a false
Jesus. The same babylon that is going to be
totally downstroyed by Jah when He returns
as the Lion of Judah. |
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has chosen a black king in this end-time to
function as a herald for His coming. People
criticize HIM for not embracing the western
political system. For a lot of people living
in the west, including christians, this
system of so-called democracy is the only
true one. But the Rastaman knows, that
babylon system is going to fall. What is
that for a democracy, in which black people
are still the sufferers? What kind of a
"peoples-rule" (that is the
meaning of the word democracy) is that, in
which black people are considered inferior
and Afrikan Nations "development
countries"? I have yet to read a bible
scripture which supports this babylon
system. Haile Selassie says that until the
philosophy which holds one race superior and
another inferior is destroyed there will be
war. The Rastaman's war is not against white
people, but against mental slavery of black
people. The Rastaman says that black people
are beautiful people where babylon says they
are ugly people. The Rastaman says that
black people are Gods chosen people because
Jah always takes the side of the sufferer
where babylon says the white man is Gods
chosen because they are so blessed by
material richness and global power. The
Rastaman wants to remember slavery and use
it as a teaching and babylon wants us to
forget slavery and act like it has never
happened. Until the racist babylon
philosophy of white superiority has been
destroyed there will be war. War in the
east, war in the west, war up north, and war
down south............... |
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