There’s been a lot of tension these last few weeks and, as is the flow of life, the tension around us very much affects within us ... and in many ways, is a reflection of the ongoing tension that resides within us all, individually and collectively.
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A few weeks ago, I came across some information on the traumatic experiences that happened in the Rasta Community in April 1963. I decided to go down the rabbit hole and found information on how much segregation Rastafarians have endured within their own Black Communities, over the years. I have seen this, growing up in Jamaica but never quite understood why Rastas were looked down on and why young people were so deterred from embodying anything that resembled the Rasta man... like locing their hair.
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Simultaneously, and this was to my surprise, in April 1963 ... Martin Luther King was in Alabama fighting against the White Supremacists Segregation.
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What was interesting to me was that the very same thing happening in America was happening in Jamaica except it wasn’t White Supremacists (though idk if Bustamate was a white supremacist) and white cops and white people who were suppressing the Rastas... it was their own black people.
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So, this brought to my mind the concept of the “European Supremacy Consciousness” and how it can be rooted in any being ... and how throughout the centuries many Black people have had this European supremacy consciousness planted within them and had an aversion to anything related to black consciousness and black freedom. I think this is the very thing that caused so many Black people to look down on Rasta men and women who refused to live their lives from the standards of Europeans ... they refused to live by European Consciousness... as they did not incarnate as European Beings...
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Listen to the full podcast episode to understand the full message and feel free to ask me questions and leave, respectful, comments... even if we have different perspectives and/or opinions, all is welcomed to be shared once done so, respectfully. Tune in.