Blessings Blair,
You said it all and said it SO WELL!
I&I have to fight today to keep Rasta principles pure. So many people love the red,gold and green, the ganja and the irie-ness and the good feelings they get when 'passing' as Rasta. But they can't step up to the plate of His Majesty's divinity.
I got a letter from a white South African who is doing his thesis on Rasta studying under Carole Yawney, and was surprised to read how much he is OPPOSED to Rasta and the Afrocentric way of looking at life. Yet he is 'studying' Rasta from one of its so-called 'experts'.
There are international organisations dead-icated to bringing down Rastafari, and some of these 'experts' are merely tools of the same racist oppressors who distorted history over the centuries.

WATCH OUT FOR THE WOLVES!!! They want to reduce RASTA to simply "One Love" with everyone going around smiling with "love" at our oppressors again and whites keep the dominant position -- even over i&I Rastafari! It is happening RIGHT NOW!!! I am astonished at the level of influence and control!!!

WATCH OUT for the upcoming RASTA Expo in the capital of A-sad-ica organised by leading white 'experts' on RASTA!!!!

RASTA -- while we fight on the traditional battlefields, I&I home is on FIRE!!!!

Bless you again Blair. Let everyone who calls themselves RASTAFARI realise the full implications of what is happening today!!!

ONE LOVE
Makeda