Thread: Rasta is racist!

RASTA IS RACIST

Rastafarian-(member) Racially exclusive Jamaican sect regarding blacks as a "chosen people". Dictionary. Sounds like "Master Race" to me.


RASTA IS NOT A RELIGION IT’S A HAIRCUT


This ‘mock religion’ would be nothing without the dread locks, the colors (red, gold and green) and the fake Jamaican accents.


RACISTRASTA- PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH

GO BACK TO AFRICA!

The Rastafari movement or Rasta is a monotheistic, new religious movement that arose in a Christian culture in Jamaica in the 1930s.[1][2] Its adherents worship Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia, former Emperor of Ethiopia (1930–1936 and 1941–1974), as God incarnate, the Second Advent, and are known as Rastafarians, or Rastas. The movement is sometimes referred to as "Rastafarianism", but this term is considered derogatory and offensive by some Rastas, who dislike being labelled as an "ism".[3]
The Rastafari movement encompasses themes such as the spiritual use of cannabis[4][5] and the rejection of western society, called Babylon (from the metaphorical Babylon of the Christian New Testament.) It proclaims Africa (also "Zion") as the original birthplace of mankind, and embraces various Afrocentric social and political aspirations[4][6], such as the sociopolitical views and teachings of Jamaican publicist, organizer, and black nationalist Marcus Garvey (also often regarded as a prophet).
Rastafari is not a highly organized religion; it is a movement and an ideology. Many Rastas say that it is not a "religion" at all, but a "Way of Life".[7] Most Rastas do not claim any sect or denomination, and thus encourage one another to find faith and inspiration within themselves, although some do identify strongly with one of the "mansions of Rastafari" — the three most prominent of these being the Nyahbinghi, the Bobo Ashanti and the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
The name Rastafari is taken from Ras Tafari, the pre-regnal title of Haile Selassie I, composed of Amharic Ras (literally "Head," an Ethiopian title equivalent to Duke), and Haile Selassie's pre-regnal given name, Tafari. Rastafari are generally distinguished for asserting the doctrine that Haile Selassie I, the former and final Emperor of Ethiopia, is another incarnation of the Christian God, called Jah.[8] They see Haile Selassie I as Jah or Jah Rastafari, who is the second coming of Jesus Christ onto the Earth.
Today, awareness of the Rastafari movement has spread throughout much of the world, largely through interest generated by reggae music. The most notable example is Jamaican singer/songwriter Bob Marley (died 1981). By 1997, there were around one million Rastafari faithful worldwide.[9] In the 2001 Jamaican census, 24,020 individuals (less than 1 percent of the population) identified themselves as Rastafarians.[10] Other sources have estimated that, in the 2000s, they formed "about 5 percent of the population" of Jamaica[11], or have conjectured that "there are perhaps as many as 100,000 Rastafarians in Jamaica"

Seems to use religion as an excuse to smoke weed.

Not entirely sure that the "Go back to Africa" was wholly necessary or relevant.

It would have remained an obscure little West Indian cult known only to a few well read theologians and the not terribly interested people of Jamaica if Bob Marley hadn't have been a rasta, IMO. Marley himself wasn't as fluffy as his record company likes to make out. He was distincly ambivalent (if not actively hostile) towards white people. He also had wacky beliefs that contraception was a white plot to depopulise the world of black people. It was his rastafarianism that effectively killed him. He refused to have a cancerous toe removed and the cancer metastasised to lungs, and of course, that was the end of him.

It's like if Jimmy Hendrix had been a Branch Davidian or similar - it would mostly be famous after the fact of Hendrix. Instead it's unfortunately (in)famous for the Waco tragedy.

I have never needed an excuse, religious or otherwise, to smoke weed!

Originally Posted by Zak64

It would have remained an obscure little West Indian cult known only to a few well read theologians and the not terribly interested people of Jamaica if Bob Marley hadn't have been a rasta, IMO. Marley himself wasn't as fluffy as his record company likes to make out. He was distincly ambivalent (if not actively hostile) towards white people. He also had wacky beliefs that contraception was a white plot to depopulise the world of black people. It was his rastafarianism that effectively killed him. He refused to have a cancerous toe removed and the cancer metastasised to lungs, and of course, that was the end of him.

It's like if Jimmy Hendrix had been a Branch Davidian or similar - it would mostly be famous after the fact of Hendrix. Instead it's unfortunately (in)famous for the Waco tragedy.

I have never needed an excuse, religious or otherwise, to smoke weed!

Malcolm X did the same for the Nation of Islam and ultimately invented the fashion amongst "hard Black Youth" to pretend to be Muslims to show how "Black" (i.e. anti-white) and "radical" they are.

Originally Posted by flamingreen

Not entirely surprising given his heritage, a white paedo father who groomed his mother when she was only about fourteen then left her to bring up her child alone.

I knew he'd had a pretty tough upbringing, but I didn't know his father (who was a white British Army Officer) fathered him (if you are correct - and if I've understood you correctly) when she was only 14. I did know his father abondened the family. He grew up in Trenchtown, IIRC, one on Jamaica's less than salubrious neighbourhoods. In the early days his band had a reputation for being trouble, and the boss of Island Records was warned not to sign them up; but he did and the rest is history.

The thing about the Rastafarian belief that killed him was apparently you couldn't deliberately remove part of your body, or suffer it to happen willingly, or you wouldn't be going to Rasta heaven.

A rastafari not a rasta. There is a difference....init

Originally Posted by Parteepoopa

That's right. Rasta is an armed terror group of Congo specialising in rape.

Blimey! he's right! (shocked smiley)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasta_(Congo)