Posted By: Bantu-Kelani
Date: Monday, 6 October 2003, at 2:09 p.m.

In Response To: Question *LINK* (rasifree)

Do you know the real story of the kingmakers of Ethiopia and the "Ethiopian" Orthodox Christianity? Do you know anything about the “Falacha” the black Jews the Ethiopians? Have you heard of the "Falasha" that migrated en-mass to Israel from Ethiopia? Do you know what I am talking about?? That is a good indication of Abyssinian's divided ruling ideology. The ruling Abyssinians are the ones that founded the ruling and Solomonoid (as the biliblical and Jewsish king Solomon). They are known as the Amhara and the Tigre and believe they are a "Semitic" people and openly denigrate being the African, the black.

SUCH ANTI-BLACK AFRICAN SENTIMENTS HAVE FORMED THE VERY FOUNDATION OF THEIR RULING IDEOLOGY WHERE THE RULING DYNASTY SOUGHT TO LEGITIMIZE ITS RULE BY STATING THE UNIQUENESS, HENCE SUPERIORITY OF THE ABYSSINIANS, IN RELATION TO THE MAJORITY BLACK AFRICAN ETHNIC GROUPS THEY TREAT AS THEIR ETERNAL SLAVES.

The Abyssinians are Orthodox Christians by belief while the series of people they lord over are either moselm or "animists" (aka followers of our Indigenous African belief systems). The majority people in Ethiopia the non-Abyssinian populations (such as the Oromo relatives of the Boran-Gabara-Orma people in Kenya) and numerous others were all but mere slaves to the Abyssinians for centuries. Their status has been similar to the status of the South Sudanese vs. the ruling and Arab Sudanese in the north of the Sudan!!

The Abyssinians, like the Arab-Sudanese pride in being the "chosen" people destined to lord over the "lesser" races of Africa. As such, their view of the Africans, despite many of them being as dark as any other people; is a negative, racist, downward-looking and a contemptuous one.

Have you ever looked at, studied the Ethiopian ruling dynasty and analyzed Orthodox Christianity? You have no idea what you are talking about. Instead of just saying propaganda, I hope you will learn a bit more on the subject matter. I wish that you would take the time to listen, learn THE TRUTH before you make uninformed statements.

Bantu-Kelani.

Posted by Ayinde to kristine

Of course, if others don’t like it they can choose other topics. But it says much when a few try to distract from the issues and others who proclaim Rasta don’t look at that poor conduct. It gives the appearance that Rasta supports distortions, distraction and slander all in the name of Rastafari. So who is discrediting Haile Selassie except the few who continually display poor conduct while trying to convince us that they so love HIM?

I feel the above had little if anything to do with the article or the original question..would this fall into the category of distortion or off topic....

BACK TO THE ARTICLE:

Where is the critique of the article and why should it not be on the site.

I found the article somewhat lacking in credibility as well as opinionated while trying to leave the impression of satire...generalizations...the 4 analagies do not include the objectivity the author cited by using personal opinion such as parenthisizing one as a moron while also saying one made a dummy out of another...with this in mind as an overview and also bearing in mind the author uses no references to prove or disprove any of his claims regarding the historians/scholars or the 4 Emporers...I would hardley waste my time trying to critique the actual contents of the article as the work involved without author resources would be to disprove and then prove ie double work..I would look overall at the article as opinion along the lines of newspaper editorials. And for information regarding Ethiopia I would feel compelled to look elsewhere...

As far as whether it should or should not be on the site this is not my decision obviously...I do find it somewhat misleading to place it on a page called RASTAFARI SPEAKS as is not RASTAFARI SPEAKING...literally...