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Racism,
a tool to divide and rule (2)
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Just
the day after listening to a couple of
interviews about racism as a tool of the
Power Elite to divide and rule, about which
I wrote my first Journal entry, I was faced
with some racism concerning myself. How
odd...
A few weeks ago, the Dubroom posted an
article written by Aaron Judah with the
title "Rastafari
Babylon". This article was a
contribution to an open reasoning on various
websites concerning some internal issues in
the Movement of Rastafari. Although the
article is placed on the Dubroom, that
doesn't mean I personally feel like I had to
contribute to this reasoning.
So far, so good.
The reasoning continued on several Rasta
fora on the Internet: let me mention the Twelve
Tribes Live Up Board, the Irascom
Board, and the "Fullfilled
Rasta" Board. Because some of these
boards only allow certain people to post,
this made the reasoning a little bit
complicated. Some postings contain quotes
from other boards without mentioning the
original url's, and stuff like that.
Then, on one board someone quoted from
another forum. Take a look at this
posting. It contains remarks concerning
someone, and a quote. That quote was taken
from this
thread. Here it is:
I said it once and i say it
again..there is no need for some global
international Rasta organization to over
see anything...
RAstafari will go where the wind blows
it.... a seed goes where the wind takes
it...it then grows by itself. That is the
vitality of rastafari...once centralized
it will die. i dont agree period with no
gobal babylon inspired nonsense...Bongo
Miguel
Well, you can take this posting for what it
is. I personally think it adresses a
principal which could be quite relevant in
that internal reasoning. However, this was,
and still is, not really anything of my
business. Bongo Miguel just posted this, his
opinnion, and on the other board they were
not really liking it. And so they placed
comments on this and started to adress other
members of that group against Bongo Miguel's
person as well as his opinnion.
Then something interesting happenned. In a
response to this warning, there was a
response wherein this Bongo Miguel
(personally I know him as Ras Miguel) was
compared with me. And this comparance was
not only that, it was equally an outright
racist attack towards me. The following was
said (emph. mine):
Messian Dread who is publishing books on
the internet smashing 'Mark Mohr of
Christafari', an the ludacrisness of that
is that Messian dread is the SAME EXACT
CATEGORY AS THE ONE HE IS
BASHING..LOL..HE IS A WHITE,
DREADLOCKS, believes you must come to he
calls him Iyesus, and is NOT A RASTA, (BUT
THEN AGAIN, MARK MOHR SEH HIM NUH RASTA
too), PLAYS REGGAE MUSIK, AN IS FROM THE
NETHERLAND. So mi ask how is Messian
Dread any different than Christafari?
He is not, except him bawl out Jah
Rastafari, an chrsitafari dont.
Factually, what this is saying is: because I
have a certain skin colour and the one who I
expose (Mark Mohr of Christafari) appears to
have the same skin colour, I am not able to
discern the difference between the message
of the Christafari Organization and my own
meditations. When you're "white,
dreadlocks" it doesn't matter what
you say or do, you will be thrown into this
"category".
This becomes clear, when you look at all the
other "categories".
"Dreadlocks", "playing
Reggae", being in a certain location
like the USA or the Netherlands, not
believing that the Ethiopian Emperor is JAH
Rastafari, believing that you must call on
Yesus Kristos the Divine Saviour, well maybe
apart from playing Reggae, they all do
apply to the very same person who wrote the
racist words!!
The only difference is the colour of the
skin!
And so I wrote the following on this
thread:
Greeting in the Name of the Most High Jah
Rastafari!
It has come to my attention, that
unfortunately I am being drawn into this
matter. It seems like Ras Miguel's
statement above have provoked a reaction
in which he is now compared with me.
First, I think it's not so important who
Ras Miguel is, who I am, who anyone is.
JAH can even make truth come out of the
mouth of a donkey, or an ex-pagan like me,
or Ras Miguel. When we speak foolishness,
then leave it for what it is. When we
speak the truth, then don't bother who we
are either. To have a focus on persons
rather then what they say is not a sign of
love for the truth.
And what else can set us free but the
truth?
I think it's true, that centralized and
organized systems to oversee groups of
people globally are not showing how they
think for themselves. As a principal.
Whether this is so with "Irascom"
or not, is none of my business. I am not a
Rasta, I do not call myself a Rasta
because I am not of Israel. I am a born
again Pagan. But I do serve JAH Rastafari,
because He created us all. And I thank the
Good JAH Rastafari for comming in the
flesh in Yesus Kristos to save me by His
precious blood. There are too many people
who call themselves Rasta who are not
Rasta at all and I am not one of these
people.
I do have the utmost respect for the
Movement of Rastafari. I have respect for
Israel. There are even many Christian in
Israel! Haile Selassie is the Ikon of
Christ in His Kingly Character, and the
movement of Rastafari showed this to me.
The "Christian Church" did not
show this to me.
Then, I have seen how there were racist
remarks concerning me, in this very same
comparance with Ras Miguel. It was said
that because I am not a Rasta, but
"white" and "have
dreadlocks" and should therefore not
be able to discern the difference between
someone who follows Yesus Kristos or a
Pharisee who works for the Christian
Industrial Complex in order to make people
slaves of the very same White Geezus that
so-called created black people to serve
white people.
It is odd, that one self proclaimed Rasta
would have to be racist towards me, not
recognizing how the very same unmasking of
the white jesus as the false christ is
chanting down racism and revealing a black
Christ, a Rastafari Teaching, is the root
of my meditation. the ones who I expose,
Christafari, know this too well as they
call my meditation "a compromising
blend of Rastafarianism and
Christianity" (that was a quote).
Now when Ras Miguel's statement, which as
far as I can see only adresses a
principal, provokes people to compare him
with me in my meditation on Christafari,
and have no other argumentation then
personal slander where Jah can make truth
come out of a donkey's ass even, call me a
donkey's ass if you will, then I i know
for a fact that is not Rastafari.
I know for a fact, that the Movement of
Rastafari is not racist. I know that the
message of Rastafari is: "Think For
Yourself", and "Know
Yourself". And so I do. I know for a
fact, that being born again through the
Black Christ has nothing to do with racism
either. But I do know that ones who reside
in the United states Of America must be
aware for the strong racist spirit that is
over that land.
I don't want to be drawn into this debate,
even though I have published an article
(not written by me) on my website. I am
not a Rasta, because I am not of Israel.
But that does not mean that I am unable to
be a dread. I am dread because i am born
again in the Black Christ. I have also
worked very hard, year after year, to get
good information, truth information, about
Rastafari to my Christian brothers and
sisters. That is a thing which Christafari
does not do, and I find it odd that a self
proclaimed Rasta would still not know the
difference between Christafari and me.
I hope that my website will be a source of
good information about Rastafari too, so I
would like to invite every thoughtfull
writer who has something to say about
in-depth subjects to come, too. I am a
Truthlover first and foremost. And a
Freethinker. This is not strange, because
the Truth shall set you Free.
I have written an email to the one who
compared Ras Miguel with me with the
subject: "How can a racist stand for
unity" and the message body:
"That's the one question I have for
you.
One Love, MD"
I give thanks for all true Rastas that I
know, for I have never engaged racism and
I could never have learned about the Black
Christ from no "church".
Give thanks, Respect. One Love, Messian
Dread
After this posting, I noticed how the racism
continued. It turned out, that the one who
put out that remarks concerning me was
inviting people to her own message board
where the racism continued. After all, when
you have a certain skin colour, you are
"the same category" no matter
what. Take
a look.
Give tanks Sistren Kaya for the invite. I
saw the other mess you mention on the
other board, but you know you have a good
point
mohr is white, has locks, and wears ites,
green and gold, and plays reggae, and is a
christian (born again him say), says he
wants to tell Rasta people about Je-sus
and that Selassie is not Jah the Almighty
God.
messian dread is white, has locks, and
wears ites, green and gold, and plays
reggae, and is a christian (well I read
where he say pagan christian!!!!), says he
wants to spread the gospel of Christos
(same meaning as Christ) and that Selasie
is not Jah the Almighty God.
To me there is no difference between these
two.
Now, this was not new to me. The accusation
of having a certain skin colour and some
subsequent incapability to discern any other
difference spiritually or otherwise was
aimed to me before. By the very same person.
Who, by the way responded to the above with
the following:
INI dont go on that subjeck here, becuz
that is jus a waste of time, an there are
plenety of boards where ones can go to
hear the great christiafari and messian
dread feud. Mi nuh inna it. Raspeck. He
jus got feelin a way becuz mi call pon him
name, lol. I thought he likes all that
attention, but any way Iyah, glad to see
you aboard.
As said, I sent her an email with the
question what racism had to do with
"unity", which is one of the words
this particular person frequently uses in
her many postings all over the Internet. A
selective unity, that is. But never mind
that, though. When you have a certain
"category", you're obviously not
of other "categories" and so there
you have the "unity". Needless to
say that I didn't receive any response from
the e-mail other then the public remark
"I thought he likes all that
attention". Well, no, I do not like
these kind of attention thank you. I do not
like to be judged by the colour of a man's
skin, which is of no more significance then
the colour of my eyes. I do not like to be
drawn into a debate where I have nothing to
do with, as I know that I am not of that
"category" of which the debate
appearantly has to be about.
And so, while this continued, it became
clear how indeed racism was the issue at
hand. I was just an "easy target"
for the person who decided to fire this
racism at me.
No, I don't like his "attention"
at all. Neither do I want to give it that
much either. I know that true Rastafari has
nothing to do with racism. But because there
are appearantly some who claim they
represent Rastafari and in this claim commit
this racism, I do not take this as lightly.
It was the movement of Rastafari who taught
me all kinds of things without which I could
never have discovered the truth, "the
half that has never been told" so to
speak.
In a second posting in this
thread, I wrote:
Greetings, thank you very much for the
words.
As said, I'd rather not have myself drawn
into this internal debate, but since ones
appearantly needed to slander me and even
express racism and claim how they
represent "rasta" i just wanted
to add some thoughts. I have seen allready
how the slandering and racism continues on
certain places even as I write, and I will
not have myself drawn into this debate by
stating what I think about Irascom.
I value this board and other boards which
i visit. I hardly post anything. Why not?
Because I have nothing to say. But I do
read. And the only reason why I posted was
to express how i will not be falling into
the trap to see the racism are
representative of the Movement of
Rastafari. In other words: they can racist
me whatever they want in order to tell the
world just what Rasta is, I will not
believe that their racism is
representative of Rastafari. What they are
doing is described in many so-called
"exposures of Rastafarianism" as
they call Rastafari in too many so-called
christian publication. I know it's not
Rasta. And yes, I can see the difference
between one following the Truth and one
following a lie even when they appear to
have the same "colour of a man's
skin" (!). and they try very hard to
fit the description that christafari and
other give of Rastafari but still I do not
accept it. For I know that christafari
consciously lies about Rastafari. The
proof is in my book.
I have been taught many things from a
Black Skinned Yesus Dread Rasta back in
the 1980's. A humble lion in the literal
sense of the word. He told me exactly what
I need to be told. He also warned me for
the racism which I now experience. I come
from a long way. I am not saying anything
as some new revelation. I thought for
years and years and I still think and
develope in my thinking. Also this whole
race thing, I am emancipated from that.
This emancipation does not mean I deny
Yesus Kristos being Black. It simply means
that I know what it means. It doesn't mean
that one can say he is superior over
another.
Yes, I could say I am of Spiritual Israel.
There are also many who call me Rasta, and
also true Rasta call me Rasta some times.
But I do not feel like I am the one to
call myself Rasta. In Zion, there is 12
gates. 12 Tribes. But also 12 seats for
apostles. am I of Spiritual Israel? I
truly do not know at this moment. Maybe I
am, maybe I am not... I just don't want to
be too light about it. It's a serious
matter. Worry on those who say they are of
Israel and they are not. So I will not
call myself of Israel until I am 100% sure
that I am.
Give thanks, nuff Respect to all true
Rasta and nuff prayers to all racists.
One Love, MD
I decided to add this to my journal, a
personal journal. Not only to show that no I
do not like this kind of attention, also to
show that I truly do not believe the
Movement of Rastafari to be a racist
movement. I think that when some come to you
and claim to represent Rastafari and turn
out to judge you on the colour of your skin,
you are not dealing with someone who is
truly a representative of the teaching of
Rastafari.
The Bible says that we are all created out
of One Blood. That means, that we should not
judge each other, put each other in these
racist categories in order to make fun out
of each other. That is not only personally
an insult, it is also a big disrespect
towards our Creator JAH Rastafari, Who made
us all out of this One Blood.
JAH JAH cared so much for us, that He even
became human Himself, in Yesus Kristos, in
order to give His Own Precious Blood for all
of mankind, so that we can be saved from the
coming wrath of JAH towards the iniquity
workers of Babylon System!
Haile Selassie, the Ethiopian Emperor, said:
"Until the philosophy which holds one
race superior and another inferior, until
the colour of a man's skin is of no more
importance than the colour of his eye, there
will be war".
But that war is not a war in which you can
count me in.
One Love,
Messian Dread (Nov 30, 2005)
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