I wikipediad it and it’s all entangled in black supremacy and them being the children of ZION LOLWUT? Eh? Rastas are black ZIONISTS? So what are the Asian and white misguided young people thinking to wear rastas?
OMG
Yes. Except the homeland is somewhere in Africa/Ethiopia. And they’re not Jewish.
Also, this should be on Sociocide.
You obviously didn’t wiki very far. Zion for rastas represents their spiritual homeland, which would be Ethiopia.
Also, you’re a gigantic faggot.
Edit: beaten by the ? of all people…
THANKS!!! very concise
The whole thing is totally idiotic. That being said. I still like reggae. Most of the rasta are not even from ethiopia (if any are at all). What started as an ideal homeland (having never been conquered) turned into some sort of real homeland.
Marley said alot of racist things in his life. Right now they escape me, but I remember a PBS special on him and thinking over and over “What the fuck did he just say?”…I mean some of his followers believed his cancer was a pliot by the white man.
It is funny how white people with no connection to jamacians other than their Legen CD just think all jamacians and rastas are these laid back kind gentle ganga smoking souls. Like everyone else, they have their fare share of fuckers.
As far as young asian and whites…think about all the stupid shit people buy into whether it is yoga or sex in the city or IKEA…i don’t think rastafarianism is any more perverse.
are you serious? that’s saying liberian kids wearing KKK masks is pretty stupid but not at all outrageous LOL
If liberian kids want to weak KKK shirts, then they have to deal with the consequences. It is not like rastas are out killing people and harrassing people.
you haven’t watched enough 80s action movies.
lol point taken
Bob Marleys father was a white Scottish Jamaican civil servant who died when bob was 10. I think a lot of Bob’s issues with white men came from his dad not having very much to do with him before this to be honest.
http://genrootsblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/bob-marley-in-florida-death-index-and.html
Bob was a god to my Posse in the late 70s early 80s though.
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Seagal solved it.
I don’t know of any Rastas who are from Ethiopia. Rastafarianism is 100% Jamaican, I think Ethiopia came about as the location of their ideal homeland, “Zion”, because of Haile Selassie’s words and his influence. And it’s probably called Zion because Rastas like to read the old testament and whatnot. Damian Marley, who is every bit as lyrically poignant as Bob, in my opinion, said: “Do you remember Elijah, and the chariot of flames? The same blood runs through my veins”. That makes him part Jewish.
What the fuck?
It is quite likely that he is referring to the spirit of Elijah, however. You know, that fighting spirit against the evil powers that be in the world.
Goddamn, Damian Marley writes some good shit.
Marley said alot of racist things in his life. Right now they escape me, but I remember a PBS special on him and thinking over and over “What the fuck did he just say?”…I mean some of his followers believed his cancer was a pliot by the white man.
He was mostly about protesting the rape of Africa, slavery, and all the bad shit happening in the aftermath of slavery. A little bit extreme indeed. It wouldn’t surprise me if he said a bunch of racist shit.
It is funny how white people with no connection to jamacians other than their Legen CD just think all jamacians and rastas are these laid back kind gentle ganga smoking souls. Like everyone else, they have their fare share of fuckers.
Yup, people are idiots.
There are a lot of references to Old Testament history in reggae lyrics, from Bob Marley through to Ras Attitude, as in Bob Marley’s Survival:
We’re the survivors, like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
(Black survivors),
Thrown in the fire, but-a never get burn.
I got a firm grasp of Rasta reality when I was 16: I saw a building in Dallas with a mural of Bob Marley on the side, which I thought was a record store. It turned out to be a smoky pool hall full of black people who weren’t happy to see me. I wasn’t some dipshit whiteboy with dreads, and I didn’t say “Inity” or “Irie,” I just got out of there silently and later laughed while I thought of my even whiter friends who gave me the nickname I now use as my username.