Ras Tafari is not a religion as much as it is a realization, a remembering. Ras Tafari though it could have been born in Africa was unquestionably born in Jamaica.
It was born when the Africans in Jamaica got a voice and revealed to the world that we had not forgotten our right to return to our, inheritance from the Creator, the Continent of our birth, Africa.
The way of life that we espouse is universal and is the same as any legitimate religious institution that subscribes to the Ancient books of the prophesy (What the white man calls The bible) or the Qur’ran. Or any right living person even if they have never heard of Ras Tafari, the Bible or Quo’ran

As usual the white media has captured Ras Tafari, packaged it, and defined it in a way that distracts us from the main cause and that is to “put right the wrong that we (Africans) are still experiencing”, and that is the broken promise of REPATRIATION. Which honorable man would claim to be free when his children are imprisoned?

Ras Tafari is about repatriation and not religion.
Our way of life is something that has to be addressed because we know that we were enslaved because of turning our backs on the Creator and accepting the ways of Babylon. The word Babylon may be said to mean “others” but it is used as it is in the Bible and the Quo’ran to refer to “worldly” ways that we are all, (Ras Tafari or not) growing tired off.
So even though Ras Tafari was born in Jamaica it is the result of an African experience, “Slavery”, or to be more specific, the enslavement of African men women and children.
(A wrong that has been admitted but never corrected.)

It is therefore natural for Ras Tafari to be in Africa because one does not have to be put in concentration camps all the way in the Caribbean, to be enslaved. Africans have been enslaved at home also. And many conscious Africans realize that it is our life style that has enslaved us.
Hence, Ras Tafari and the emphasis on “live-ity”.

Our beliefs about His Imperial Majesty Haile Selesie I Jah Ras Tafari is not an issue that I can address in this short Contribution and will have to be addressed at another time. I will say however that before Africa was enslaved or Royalty were all representatives of GOD and not politicians representing the white mans system.

Ganja is found in every region of Africa. Many of our heads of state hide and smoke it like little school boys afraid of the white man’s disproval. Some call it a drug like cocaine even though free men know it is a herb like any other of our many herbs and spices. That is what I mean when I say we are enslaved at home also.

Thank you for the positive unifying words about Ras Tafari, but the next time you see a person with dreadlocks DO NOT ASUME that they know Ras Tafari. They are often wolfs in sheep’s clothing or at best just lovers of the music and Bob Marley’s Hollywood image. You may be disappointed or even robbed, as anyone can stop combing their hair and wear a “rasta” wrist band.
Just as a man in a big car with a big house is not necessarily a big man or a clever man and could well be a criminal.
My advice is to always look for live-ity (The Godly heart revealed by deeds), then regardless of color or nationality you will have found God in man (he need not be Ras Tafari).
That is the meaning of ONE LOVE.
A white man cannot call for the return of a life style he has never known. But we can hope that he will eventually learn and understand what true Africans mean by Love.

True Ras Tafari may not have dread locks but he will know LOVE, and understand the call that only an African can make.
“Mayibuye i Afrika”.

African X
One heart of love in Tafari
You don’t have to be Ras Tafari for me to love you. Civilized white men say the same about being white.

Bob Marley: ;Rastaman vibrations gonna cover the earth! Like the water cover the sea! ;

No I understand that Bob is not the “creator of Rasta” Obviously, anyone who knows the roots of the religion knows that. But Bob was one of the greatest teachers of all time, in the language of love, peace, and equality, all of which are cornerstones to the Rasta faith. So if you cant see white people who are ashamed of what their race once did, and supporting the struggle of the African people, standing up against babylon, then you are the oppressor, and you have no reason to be practicing this faith. Even in the time of the slaves many white people fought their own brothers, fathers, cousins, to the death to right the wrong that our people had done. Thats not struggle? Sounds to me like a group of people standing up against Babylon, fighting for what is right.

That said, no I am not a white rasta, I support the rastafari faith, I however choose to not practice religion partly because of the scrutiny that many “rea” rastas would put on me, partly because my feelings of love peace and equality dont mesh into the dislike and the detest that I would see if I were to grow locs, and start praising Jah.

Bob Marley: ;What does rasta mean? Righteousness