"People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people. "
"Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality. "
"Tell the children the truth. "
"The harder the battle the sweet of jah victory. "
"The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall. "
"The power of philosophy floats through my head, light like a feather, heavy as lead. "
"Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. "
8 comments:
"Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction."
This perhaps explains the legal status of each here in the U.S.
It`s a good way to wreck your lungs.
Me and herb used to be like frick and frack. Then we got a divorce.
Alcohol brings out my bad side.
Big J
"The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall. "
Preach brotha preach
DV.
Put This one up on your site, please. I'd like to see what your friend II has to say about it.
http://proofmagazine.i8.com/catalog.html
Fisher,
I read through it. I don't know what to tell you and I don't know what you want me to say. It's obvious this woman is in a lot of pain and that there are many sources of that pain.
The colorism of Egyptians is destructive, disgusting and immoral. It runs counter to everything great about Egyptian history but, unfortunately, after hundreds of years of colonization, it is deeply ingrained in the Egyptian psyche. I am one of the darkest-skinned people in my family and spent my childhood being warned about going in the sun because "you're already too dark."
I know how racist Arabs are and I've witnessed it first hand. The word "abd" means slave (like in the name Abdallah, i.e. slave of God). When Arabs in America refer to Blacks in Arabic, they refer to them as "abeed" (plural of slaves). Personally, I don't let any Arab get away with that shit in my presence and I've had some pretty nasty exchanges over it. On countless occasions, I've told Arabs that they have no business crying like bitch ass whiners about racism since 9/11 if they don't say anything about the perpetuation of racism against Blacks in our community. Does that fix things? I don't know.
We can condemn, yell, get mad, etc. about it and that will never bring us closer to understanding why this is so. And without that understanding, we will never be able to solve the problem. The colorism of not just Egyptians, but American blacks, Chinese, Thais, Indians, Europeans, fascinates me. I want to understand why, throughout the world, dark is seen as bad and white as good.
II.
Thanks for the answer. I posted it over on the Assault.
http://assaultonblacksanity.blogspot.com/2007/06/intellectual-insurgent-on-kola-boof.html
I am still trying to understand what point you are trying to make. There are racist Arabs, racist Chinese, racist everyone. Here's a great piece on racism against Blacks in Brazil -
http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.realcities.com%2Fmld%2Fkrwashington%2Fnews%2Fworld%2F17380480.htm%3Ftemplate%3DcontentModules%2Fprintstory.jsp
Why do you think it is that the entire world has a light-skinned/dark-skinned complex?
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