Saturday, April 28, 2012
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Witness of an Pan-African legend
"There is no passion to be found playing small- in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living"
Nelson Mandela
As I think back, there may have been a few times that I caught an interview with Dr. Thompson on Like It Is, a Sunday morning news perspective hosted by the late Gil Noble. I have to give thanks that my parents had the good sense to instill that kind of social value into our lives.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
An abomination of the highest degree
“Defilement is an action, not an idea, and therefore it is not freedom of expression. It does treachery to freedom of expression. Secondly, it is a part of a trend that enrages Islamism around the world. Therefore it has to be interpreted in this context.”
Mohammad Khatami
“We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things and yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy for us”
Mark Twain
Last Friday I was hit with a barrage of emails and text messages over the above video clip. Turns out that during the premiere of the recently released authorized documentary of Bob Marley, someone used a representation of the Ethiopian flag down on the ground in place of the traditional "red carpet". Given that Marley was seemingly devoutly Rastafari, whether by faith or livity, to many the use of the flag in this manner was a desecration.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Friday, April 13, 2012
Let's Keep Getting The Word Out: Stop Exploiting the Name and Image of Rastafari
“If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.”
I just wanted people to take pause and think about what they actually view what may or not be "foreign cultures". While people do indeed traverse the world and engage new cultures on a scale like at no other time in recent history; travel is no longer only the whim of the rich or plight of the slave, oft times given the "right" and freedom of expression here in the States, peoples culture gets ridiculed without second thought.
William Greider
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Another Woman Takes the Helm in Africa
“WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence,”
Steve Biko
“There's no transformation process that could bear the desired outcomes without women throwing their weight behind that change initiative, and the same holds for the nation-building process.”
Steve Biko
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| President Joyce Banda |
I would be more than a little remiss if I did not take a brief moment to acknowledge Malawi's new President, The Hon. Joyce Banda. To be honest, I knew of President Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, and that the current presidents of Brazil, Argentina and Germany were all women. But when I took a second to verify just how many current female heads of state there were in the world, I was shocked to say the least.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Too Much Commercialization
“The best people have left and the old people have retired, and commercialization has taken hold.”
Xu Tian
It has been some time since my last official post. My hiatus was self-imposed and much needed in the scope of things. However much has occurred in the time since we last connected and I will be attempting to cover as much as I can, of that which is relevant to our interests and pursuits as Rastafari.
That said, I stumbled across something quite disturbing the other day. As a matter of fact, it was downright deplorable. But first let me explain how I reached that moment in my day.
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