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Sis Naphatali wrote " you seriously give Japheths a bad name."
sorry you feel that way. i have said before and i will say again i speak for myself, not for so called white people, not for white rastas nor for TTOI. I dont come here looking for fight. i come here looking for rastafari reasoning. when i see something that i think is wrong i will word out against it, because i was taught if you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem.
One of my main beefs is blanket statemenets and generalizations. we are all guilty of this myself included, but its ignorant.
Dr Henry Louis Gates Jr of Harvard went to Africa
with a mindset that all slavery was about white evil. Then he met a rich rich Afrikan family in the midst of abject poverty. who are these people? Then he finds out they were the seller of slaves and thier big houses and gold dripping jewelry was directly from that. He had a malcolm in Mecca eppiphany. There were 2 sets of devils at work in the slave trade.
THAT IS ALL I'M SAYING.
The stories need to be balanced. Is not pure white people involved in slavery., is not pure white people mash up mamma Afrika, but if you read this board, with out someone pointing this out you would think so.
and when i point these things out, people jump up and down and say You are trying to whitewash history, you are trying to take away from the horror of the majority, you are trying to soften the acts of whites and pain them in a better light, you are trying to.. re re re
NO
all i'm saying is, look at the whole. period.
If It's balanced facts and history we are talking
fine. if its some slanted recollection that ignores the whole story I will keep wording out against that, so that hopefully people are not going through life with tunnelvision blinders on.
taurus the bull stubborn? Maybe, but again i am passionate about not letting things go when i hear generalizations, half stories, etc.. and i will continue to speak up until i'm tossed of the board like my many friends who have been over the last year. ras adam simeon
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