Rastafarianism: Essence of Reggae


	Rastafarianism: Essence of Reggae

invictus

7-19-2007 7:55 AM

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religion, rastafarianism, culture, reggae, africa, ethiopia, jamaica

invictus says:

Re-clipping my old stuff as promised.

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7-20-2007 8:08 AM

Djiezes

A sisyphean challenge, but worthwile the burden. Good luck, invictus.

7-20-2007 2:49 PM

AcesLucky

Yah-mon. I no natty, see?

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ede0ced7-af0d-4ed6-82d5-868b4151e85f/B5402D46-CA73-4902-A1D7-ADDFF847948E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/rast.html" href="http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/rast.html" style="font-size: 11px;">religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/rast.html"><FONT color="#990000">Rastafarianism </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/rast.html">The original Rastas drew their inspiration from the philosphies of <A target?_blank?="" href="http://www.isop.ucla.edu/mgpp/">Marcus Mosiah Garvey 
      </A>(1887-1940), who promoted the Universal Negro Improvement Association 
      (UNIA) in the 1920s. The organization's main goal was to unite black people 
      with their rightful homeland, Africa. Garvey believed that all black people 
      in the western world should return to Africa since they were all descended 
      from Africans. He preached that the European colonizers, having fragmented 
      the African continent, unfairly spread the African population throughout 
      the world.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/rast.html">After spending nearly a decade in the United States 
      and Great Britain, Garvey returned to <A target?_blank?="" href="http://www.jamaicans.com/">Jamaica</A> in 1927, where 
      he spread his political views among the black working class.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/rast.html">In 1930, Prince Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned the new Emperor of Ethiopia.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/rast.html">This announcement 
      was a monumental event that many blacks in Africa and the Americas saw as 
      the fulfillment of Garvey's prophecy years before.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B5402D46-CA73-4902-A1D7-ADDFF847948E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>