u dont have to be dread to be rasta....???

[empress love]

"u don't have to be dread to be rasta..? is this true...how about this "u don't have to be black to be rasta...? is this true.....can u truly be rasta and be "white" or non-afrikan...? how can a non-afrikan be in the fight for black power....? rasta is black power there is nuff fashion and playn' n rasta today...everyone wants to "be down" wit d hair and d clothes, yet they dont care 'bout rasta......is this all for fashion...lets blacken things up..........

[Baby Tafari]

Truth from an African perspective.. lol.. so u are without melanin then? Coz I surely am not.

Just coz someone produce babies doesnt mek U a parent, its the love and care dat mek u a parent. Same thing Love and Inity, living as One with African people meks U African, rather than hating from a far not even caring for the African perspective - H.I.M. PERSPECTIVE

Wat do "Empressive" kno about wat the example I use, my friends fada, do for the suffering ppl in Sudan? Wat she kno about the support and Love they feel with him living side by side on their terms, and wat he achieve in Jah name? I bet if U ask them they feel his efforts far further than they feel Empressive's hatefilled online reasonings.

Sorry, I dont back or bow. I call spade a spade, clown a clown, so feel free to feel any way u want bout dat. Am tru throwing pearls to swine on this tread anyway. Gat more upfull works to focus on on I trod towards Zion!

/Baby Tafari

[empress love]

true true true...

[Empressive]

Of course Europeans will always reserve the right to say WHO is AFRIKAN and WHO is truly trodding RASTA and WHO is truly destroying EarthMother and Her resources because from a European perspective ONLY THEY have the right to define and their definitions are ALWAYS right! This post is a clear demonstration of the global character of the European which is the same today as it always has been DOMINATE SEPARATE and CONTROL with DECEPTION and LIES...smite those who speak the truth for the TRUTH IS THE ENEMY of those who seek to CONTROL us!

WHENEVER and WHEREVER we as AFRIKANS step in and begin to define OURSELVES and OUR REALITY we will be called hate mongers! Because the European thrives on us seeing LIFE FROM HIS DECEITFUL and UNREALISTIC perspective!

I will continue at ALL TIMES and in ALL PLACES speak the TRUTH of REALITY as seen from the eyes of my MOST RIGHTEOUS ANCESTORS both Cherokee and West Afrikan! I will not be terrorized into seeing LIFE OR REALITY from the perspective of the Oppressor....

Have we not been taught to
ENVY NOT YOUR OPPRESSOR and CHOOSE NONE OF HIS WAYS!?!?!

I ask again where is the HATRED in my information? That question has yet to be answered....and I do not expect it to be...TRUTH will always defeat LIES because TRUTH has the support of the entire UNIVERSE

I speak with the voice of MY ANCESTORS because they SPEAK THROUGH ME! THEY HAVE BEEN SILENT FOR FAR TOO LONG! I am not here to make Oppressors feel comfortable or to make bricks for the White Supremacist Patriarchal Pyramid!

So I say again...feel uncomfortable , be concerned, because I SEE YOU and I will NOT pretend that I do NOT know who you are...thousands of years of OPPRESSION MURDER RAPE and DESTRUCTION do NOT LIE! And neither do I!

"NO TURN CHEEK
DIS TIME WE NAH BOW!"
Mutabaruka

[Empressive]

"Study and show yourself approved" is also part of the message in the scriptures

One who is a Rasta should study RastaFari from its origins...not the message that one may hear in reggae music or the feelings generated at concerts but a true study of the origins and the elders that brought these teachings to the Afrikan massive

RastaFari is not only Afrikan cultural nationalism but Black Supremacy in its core! I do not have an understanding of one who is a Rasta but sees the fundamental truths of Rasta as hatefilled!

RastaFari is NOT feelgood Eurocentric Christianity but a true tool for Afrikan liberation...this it what is was conceived to be...peace peace was not the original message but NO JUSTICE NO PEACE! The locks upon ones head were referred as "dreadlocks" by the oppressor because they struck DREAD in his heart when he saw them!

Has this revolutionary movement been watered down to what I see here?

Are there only one or two among us that still burn with the fiyah of our Ancestors?

Afrikan warriors, lions and lionesses have been reduced to this? Afraid to defend our own Ancestors? Afraid to speak up for truth?

Where are the spirts of Nanny of Jamaica? of Bussa of Barbados? of Kofi of Guyana? of Nat Turner of the US? of Zumbi of Brazil? of Boukman of Haiti? Do they no longer walk among us?

"Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life."
so speaks The Prophet Marcus Garvey

who cannot come to aid us the fight if we have all run away with our tails between our legs!

[Lioness Heart]

Were not the first ones to "dread" us up, the black jamaican government in the RasTafari beginnings? Leonard Howell was arrested, tried and thrown in jail for his belief in HIM, by the black christian gov't, via the british, yet still being used thru the jamaican counterparts.

I&I am proud of I&I african roots, but as ones have said, can't run from the truth.

[SHAGARI]

SO JAH SEH

[Baby Tafari]

SELAH

[empress love]

i agree human being are the same....peace is what ini live for no doubt...hue-man beings....yes whitness i agree should be eliminated........hue means color right...? hu man beings colored beings we r all the same...

very powerful words and image...look how perfect HIS Majesty's posture is...incredible ...absolutely.........!!!!!!!look at HIS expression power strength fire

give thanks for the strengths.....

[empress love]

right on sister BLACK AFRIKAN EARTH QUEEN...

[Empress Coco]

Blessings Sister,

I fully agree on this understanding.. Some "rastas" on WOJ want everyone to look at only their point of view. Others I notice have become very offended when we AFRIKAN stand up for what is true and right. Let me say this that it doesn't matter how some can try to justify their being and their purpose for trodding Rastafari. All that matters is the truth. The truth of Rastafari.

The struggles of THE AFRIKAN NATION throughout the centuries. The LIBERATION OF AFRIKAN from Babylon. I love being AFRIKAN. I am proud to be AFRIKAN. Nothing that anyone "white" or "black" can say to change that. So keeping filling WOJ with justification on what, when, how and why, thinking that it would change the views of Black people. REMEMBER the core of Rastafari.

For those of you who seemingly forget or try to re translate the meaning and people "RASTA IS BLACK POWER". Sorry to burst your bubble.

[Empressive]

Voices of the Sisten ringin out like Queen Nzingha and Queen Yaa Asantewaa of anciet times! Give thanks for I-nity and lack of fear and defending Truth in ALL TIMES and in ALL PLACES!

"we know we shall win as we are CONFIDENT in the VICTORY of GOOD OVER EVIL!"

Joy and a blessing to trod by the side of my sistren!

[empress love]

give thanks