We are full of love and devotion for Haile Selassie. You have to understand our situation. Brought over from Africa, and especially West Africa, as slaves over a period of several hundred years we were completely disenfranchised from our own culture. Babylon glibly declared that we were slaves no more but now had to earn our own living and make our own way in a world not of our own making, with no resources and in many cases not even the papers proving us citizens of those Western countries into which we had the misfortune to be born. And then they offered us no further hope, neither for us nor for our descendants.
It was Marcus Garvey who pointed out that we need to have culture and roots and to build our own from the ruins of our destroyed culture, becoming materially prosperous middle class people and aristocrats. We must become rulers of our own destiny.
With Selassie came such Royal inspiration and the possibility to begin living a truly Royal lifestyle. As we say, we come from monarchy not from monkey. On a deeper level we recognize Mother Earth in who we move and live and have our being, and that each blade of grass and each amoeba is our brother and sister. Unlike the Christian who see stewardship as an excuse to trash the planet we Rastafari recognize the sacred nature of our stewardship. So you will never see Rastafari taking chemical drugs. Instead we only use the most natural herb. When we blaze up our Ethiopian chalices crammed to overflowing with high grade marijuana the heathens and Satan's followers tremble. Thus it is no surprise to us that Babylon hunts out the marijuana. Their openly stated goal is to remove this wonderful plant from the face of the Earth. They don't want us to have our eyes opened let alone to start worshiping a black God.
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