I think in this quest it would be beneficial to learn what practices which are considered "Judaic"(i.e. dietary, spiritual traditions, social structure, etc.) can be found extent amongst ancient African cultures(and can still be gleaned today by looking into cultural practices of certain groups today).

If we overstand Kemet and other Nile Valley civilizations being the result of the flowering of indigenous inner African ideas, then it is in nner Africa that we can find the roots. Now, if Kemet is a product of indigenous African ideas vs. Judaism is a product of African ideas combined with an outside influence - then here perhaps we can see what the difference is. Judaism needs African justification for itself because w/out Africa it would not even have the blueprint of ideas necessary for its existence. On the other hand, African spiritual traditions need no outside justification because they are an original and indigenous product.

For I, to justify Rastafari livity by using the less original seems to be a cop-out. I know ones will then say - so Haile Selassie is a cop-out then because he used what you are labelling as "less original?" It is this kind of circular reasoning that doesn't take the reasoning to the ites but keeps it stagnant.

Why should the Rastafari livity be condemned to this vicious cycle?(see link). What made the Rastafari livity what it is is because ones were willing to take it to the ites, now it seems ones are willing to just let it rust.