Propaganda
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evidence to believe that they set up the tent with the dimensions that Exodus and Deuteronomy and them and them all Testament scriptures have taught them to do this. There are, if you go to Israel now, black Ethiopian Jewish people, as a matter of fact, they, the,
To be able to, now getting into the modern politics, to be able to repatronize, to be able to come back to Israel as a Jew, you'd have to prove by your DNA that you have Jewish heritage. You are, in fact, an ethnic Jew. And the Ethiopians, there's a sect of Ethiopia that not only can prove it, but are, some argue, the closest DNA related to what might be the ancient Israelis, right?
Some would argue that as far as the diaspora, not as far as like people ain't never left. I'm talking about as far as the diaspora, right? So they are, it can truly say, and there's a lot of traditions that in certain parts of Ethiopia that they continued following far longer and are actually far more closely related to the ancient practices than what modern Israel looks like.
This is just, it's just history. Now, because anti-blackness is universal, when they got to Israel, the modern Israel, a lot of Ethiopian women were sterilized. And if you walk around Jerusalem, just like everywhere else, the people doing all of the dirty work, all of the brunt work, All of the jobs nobody want are the black one, unfortunately.
That being said, the tie between Ethiopia, the ancient religion of Judaism, and the ancient people of Israel, one because of the region, one because of folklore, and one because of DNA, has Ethiopia is verifiably connected to whatever the ancient Jerusalem was.
Okay, you fast forward to Haile Selassie in the 1930s, who they believe, according to the Rastadim, is, I want to say 225th, I think that's what my cousin told me, 225th, don't quote me on this, I'm just quoting my cousin, of the Solomonic dynasty. So they believe that like the actual king, like a descendant of King David, right?
A son of David, kind of like who Jesus was, a descendant of David, right? Right. was also Selassie. You following me? Okay. Now the word Rastafari comes from Haile Selassie, which is Rastafari, right? It was his name, right? So he was one of the only independent black leaders in Africa at the time, right? So he bears this
cultural, political, historical, and symbolic importance to just the African diaspora. Now, once you get into the practices of Rastafarianism, like again, like the way of life, like the diet, you know, avoiding shellfish, eating seafood, like it's pretty similar to like kosher practices, again, because they have this tie to the land, the history.
So there's a lot of practices that are like, that are that they have a lot of practices about being welcoming to the sojourner about the way that we collectively sing. Jah is a Jamaican version of saying Yah, which is short for Yahweh. So when we say Jah Rastafari, you know, it's your Jah is Yah, Yahweh or Jehovah, right? So these, a lot of them are vegetarian. They don't eat meat at all.
Definitely not beef or pork because you keep the temple clean, right? you very rarely are gonna find an overweight Rasta. They're usually in incredibly good shape. The dreadlocks have to do with what's called the vow of the Nazarite, because again, we're talking Old Testament.
Samson, in the Bible, Samson with his golden locks, the Samson and Delilah, Samson had took what's called a Nazarite vow, which was a vow to keep himself holy to the Lord, and the symbol of that holiness to the Lord was not cutting your hair. This is as a symbol of our holiness, the vow of the Nazarite, you grow your dreadlocks, right?
Dreadlocks was a term given to us by the British that we just own. Nazi dread! So because our hair, our locks were dreadful, so dreadlocks. There's also sects that believe that God grabs the dead souls by their dreadlocks and brings them to heaven. Again, the symbol's beautiful. But either way, it's a symbol of the promise, your commitment to keeping yourself sanctified to the Father.
If you're being a traditional Rastadim. Now, their belief, again, so follow me, this is still an Abrahamic faith. That's why you're going to hear terms like Mount Zion, which I'm going to get to specifically in a second. But
Their belief, different than Christianity, although similar in a lot of ways, similar to Judaism in a lot of ways, their belief is that, like I said, Selassie was the Messiah, right? This is an Afro-centric belief. How did it get to Jamaica? The transatlantic slave trade. So it gets to Jamaica via the slave trade, right? We got carted off. Remember, this is an Afrocentric belief.
And when Africans got brought to Jamaica, they brought their beliefs. And then it synced, you know, had a lot of syncretism with a lot of like the voodoo and tribal and Caribbean practices, you know, a lot of the stuff that was happening in the Caribbean that, because again,
This is East Africa, West Africa with the Arishi and a lot of the West African beliefs are a little more animus and not so Abrahamic, if you will, right? All that to say, just like any other faith tradition or practice, when it travels, it takes on a lot of the personalities, traditions, and practices of the people that it traveled with
and the location it lands so the music that you hear because obviously if you hear music in ethiopia it don't sound like reggae because reggae is jamaican right so what you consider rastafarian you think caribbean because that's i mean i get it right and ethiopia is christian Of course, obviously, it's a modern country. There's millions of religions there. Not millions, but you know what I mean.
There's a lot of different religions there. But Ethiopia is Christian. Rasta... That's birthed out of the diaspora that has its tie to Ethiopia. Y'all following me? Okay. You have people like Marcus Garvey, right? Who we need to, at some point, do a whole study on him and the Back to Africa movement. And I don't have time to get into the depths of Marcus Garvey.
But the point was, as far as the pan-African experience, the diaspora, we who got separated from our land, whether it was... your run of the mill Black Baptist slave in Tuscaloosa, right, in Mobile, Alabama, backwoods of Pritchard and, you know, Macon, Georgia, that we was on the plantations. If a Bible got into our hands, it was so easy to see ourselves in the children of Israel.
Like, it's not hard to see if you read the book of Exodus, you like, well, damn, that's us. It was too, it was too, the connection is too obvious. We're like, oh my gosh, carted off into slavery from a distant land. Like, and then there's a longing for a return to your promised land. And the capital of my promised land is the city of Zion. You following me?
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