according to how I sight it, it is a bottom line issue which is as follows:
Most, if not every "white" person who has taken on certain Rastafari aspects, suffers from the pervasiveness of their privlage, to the extent that it has rendered their thought process ineffective in regard to sustaining meaningful centralized inertia towards the dismanteling and resounding negation of the system. Until these few whites come together, through vigorous networking of resources and practical ideas towards reparation of those who were victimized by the white legacy, then their religious affinity towards rasta, or any spiritual path will be in vain.
LET I START HERE AND NOW!!!!!!!!!
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[/list]Create petitions and appeals to confront local and national government.
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Use the knowledge of Ethiopian Christian history and charity AND the insult to the Good Name of God that the exposed hypocracy of racism displays. Appeal to white, well-to-do Christians for support. Exploit their well founded fears about their fatal future as their children become consumed in the fallout of racial misanthropy. [list bull-blackball]
create trust funds/ treasuries which can receive and distribute these resources appropriately.
...to name a few
related article excerpt:
...The slavery south was the fourth largest economy in the world, bigger than any European nation except England. White Americans who claim no ties to slavery should consider Robert Fogel. In his 1989 book, Without Consent or Contract, he wrote that cotton “was the essential raw material for hundreds and thousands of factory hands in the north and Europe. It provided employment for several million other workers in transportation, in handicrafts, and in…trade.”
Most of the millions of workers were white. Not to mention the northern bankers, insurers and shippers who dominated the cotton’s export. Slaves came to constitute 15% of private assets in the U.S. economy, according to The Wealth of Races. The total benefits of slavery to the national economy between 1790 and 1850 were three times that of immigrant labor.
The final value of slave labor is almost incalculable. The face value of American slaves in 1860, 1983 dollars, was $17 billion. Assuming that the money that slaves produced for others from 1790 to 1860 grew in the economy, economists, using conservative compound-interest rates, calculate that the value of such income by 1983 was $1.4 trillion to $4.7 trillion.
After emancipation, the income of black people jumped to about 60% of white Americans from 22%. But racism kept African Americans from closing the gap in pay. Government-approved housing segregation, property redlining, and job discrimination that cost African Americans at least $1.6 trillion in lost wages from 1929 to 1969 ensured that African American homeowners enjoyed far less wealth accumulation in the 20th century than white Americans.
The World War II generation will be passing on $8 trillion to their children. The average white baby boomer stands to inherit $65,000, according to researchers for the federal Reserve Board. The average African American baby boomer will inherit only $8,000.
Civil war enough? At wars end the Confederacy’s white land owners got there land back, while African Americans were given virtually nothing, forcing them into serfdom and sharecropping...
WE MUSN’T keep justice as a pet, as a novel idea as contained in some etheric bubble of self- appeasment( which, as so called white people , would never have to be challenged or have a flame put close to it because for no lack of resource, life to them is steady/great). All of the inequalities which exist weigh heavily in our favor, so they really can afford to just shelve the whole idea of justice!
The Orwellian nation that big brother wants us to be is a bunch of cool drones who sing and dance watch the history channel and cry and then celebrate freedom and life while he (big brother), goes out and expands it’s empire forcibly to the entire planet - leaving misery and death wherever he goes - and we just say “DUUUUDE” See, we create that droneness in ourselves, set ourselves up when we cheapen ourselves and our lives through acting out life from a “kid in a toy store” point of view; always playing fool-heartedly because you are intoxicated by the sensual world which you portray for yourself. Because you spend money, you are called a consumer and as such go along even in the system’s strained legitimacy which lingers in the back of your mind, but, so long as your own needs and comforts are met, exsistence is justified. How pathetic and disconcerting it is to always see whites, or anybody, putting themselves on with comic relief in the face of so much damage which our ancestors have caused; many whites I see continually display the regurgitated churlish arrogance of their forefathers to the impatient dismay of others who feel the pain
THE GREAT EMPEROR HAILE SELLASSIE THE FIRST, WHO STOOD AT THE PLATFORM OF THE WORLD POWERS TO PUSH FOR UNIVERSAL SOLIDARITY AND JUSTICE UNDER THE CODES OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND MORALITY IS THE JUDGE OF THE WORLD! I MAN AM NOT IN THE LEAST BIT ASHAMED OF THE SPIRIT OF JUDGEMENT, WHICH SEEKS JUSTICE, FOR JUDGEMENT IS PASSED IN ORDER TO CORRECT THE HUMBLE OF JAH AND TO SAVE JAH CHILDREN FROM THE WICKED. LET IT PENETRATE DEM MINDS
WOE TO THE FILTHY WHO REFUSE THE CLEANNESS OF WHAT IS GOOD.
I say that a neglect of these facts is why one may hear different reasoning than on other forums. A person of non Afreecan heritage must know their raspective place within the body of Rastafari. A non-Afreecan especially one of European descent must use privilege to do the works of the King. In this trod because of white privilege certain works & positions can be accomplished easier and with less resistance from babylon when a caucasian does them. I say this from experience as I Idren who is Italian is able to access certain demographics because of his skin without the usual spirit of fear that a black dark skinned Natty with full precepts encounters on a daily basis.
In regard to the topic of the thread, it is still as simple as "knowing oneself."
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