Emancipation from Mental Slavery!

A brief comment on "Reverse Racism". Can white people suffer racism? Greetings to all in the Name of JAH Rastafari I. Remembrances of Mother Earth. To begin this reasoning, it is necessary to start from the premise of decolonizing our view of the history of humanity, especially the legends that are told in schools about our past. High school textbooks have unfortunately become a stage for controlling mental slavery. Films, TV documentaries and YouTube try to reproduce a thin slice of absurd cases distorted within a false secular narrative, which instead of enlightening us, confuses us, placing the conquerors, rulers and Emperors - white, European and Christian - at the center of history. Generally treated as heroes, those exalted by "Eurocentrism" are - often - murderers, which represents a kind of brainwashing, a true disconnection between what is told and the reality of the facts. Many ancient narratives and documents of ancestral peoples were burned, from the eras of “Romanism” to the inquisitions of “Vaticanism”, and the voice of the desert, the mouth of the poor and black is persecuted and silenced. The world was embraced.

WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA?

Firstly, the American continent as a whole was not "discovered" only by Europeans in 1492 after Christ. Anthropology and archeology studies prove that America has been visited for thousands of years before Christ by expeditions with the Olmecs and Egyptians, Phoenicians, Chinese, Hebrews, Norse Vikings, in short, several ancestral peoples have already interacted with our continent under other conditions. There are even reports of the presence of King Solomon in the Amazon jungle of Brazil and Bolivia, using technology that could be a plane, a jet or even a ship, around 500 BC. There are solid theories that state that at that time there were already more advanced technologies and energies than we have today, some even considering the existence of intergalactic portals in ancient Egypt and the extinct Atlantis.

A DIFFERENT PAST FROM BOOKS

Based on these facts, we can now understand that the presence of African and Asian people in the Americas precedes the condition of poor slaves that we are told about in history books for thousands of years. In fact, the African was present as an explorer and conqueror, and the story becomes even more interesting and rich when we understand that African Kings were in America before the Portuguese and the Spanish, already coexisting with the native peoples. Several peaceful or aggressive encounters and disagreements took place on land and in the seas, from indigenous people to aliens. The inevitable meeting between peoples could often be a reason for alliances and concubinage, but most of the time it resulted in conflict. Within this context, diversity and differences have always generated a war between classes. Human beings have an urge to overlap truths, a competition, an oppressive force that always wants to overcome what opposes them, and this is what I would like to take and raise your attention to the reasoning of this text. The justice movement itself is humanitarian. Solidarity carries a peace that aims at balance, forgiveness, harmony and equality. Imperialism creates injustice between the rich and the poor, the strong and the weak, and racism - present for millennia among people - is supremacy, which is imposed by the brute force of those who think they are more powerful.Without the search for lasting and permanent peace, the poison of revenge transforms the oppressed into the oppressor, and this permeates the history of generations, one Babylon being consumed by another, a many-headed dragon perpetually immersed in inequality between civilizations, promoted and moved solely by vanity and never by merit. The general and global well-being of human beings as a whole should be the primary objective and sovereign desire of all people, thus valuing all brotherhoods. We can remember, for example, the tribes of Israel and the exiled Hebrews who suffered slavery for 400 years by the Egyptian pharaohs. Was it a kind of racism what they suffered? Currently, or rather, almost millennia, the racism of Europeans towards Africans, indigenous people and Asians persists. Many Kings, Popes and priests supported and sustained this racist belief through a biblical passage. This is Genesis, where Ham was cursed by Noah and must be an eternal slave of his blessed brother Shem. This erroneous biblical distortion supports and gives legitimacy to the barbarities of racism and slavery, representing an absurd error, since the Canaanite people, Ham's relatives, were completely extinct millennia ago, according to several biblical scholars and historians.

AN X-RAY OF RACISM

Racism is the map of hunger and the map of violence. Racism is the system of oppression. Racism is different from two other phenomena; discrimination and prejudice. Racism is the exploitation of people, it is the genocide itself against African and indigenous peoples. 70% of young people who are murdered today are of African descent. It is the Brazilian government's own ongoing genocide. Only 5% of executive positions are held by people of African descent. In other words, in Brazil, racial democracy is nothing more than a myth, since mass European immigration at the beginning of the 20th century whitened it and contributed to the plan of genocide and hygiene. The project has always been to reduce the black population through incarceration and murder. So it is impossible for a white person to suffer racism, because the system that governs the laws is created by white people and directs oppression towards a specific population. A great example of this is the prohibition of Cannabis, an herb used spiritually and for millennia among black and brown people. The use was prohibited at the beginning of the last century as a form of control and legal incarceration of these populations.

ANTI-RACISM MOVEMENTS

Returning our research to the last century, movements emerge through good thinkers, like-minded beings group together, connected minds and leaders form and aggregate opinions. We had great activists for this cause, who used their strength and intelligence to contribute to the cause of freedom and the fight against racism with all their hearts. Reggae certainly served as a great instrument and bridge for disseminating revolutionary and anti-racist ideas and ideals between the 70s and 80s. Reggae is the voice of the oppressed. Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Burning Spear, Steel Pulse, among other Jamaican bands and singers, highlighted their main references in their compositions: Haile Selassie I and Marcus Garvey, anti-cannabis prohibitionist activism and Pan-Africanism.In American Rap in the 90s, young people from the periphery sang about the ideologies of leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X and the Black Panthers. Anyway, the theme is freedom and respect, and it is interesting to understand the distinctions between these ideologies, which may seem like the same cause, but are sometimes two antagonistic forces. There have been many ways to bring justice and seek reparations for slavery in recent centuries. I quote here the prophecy of Marcus Garvey, founder of the UNIA: When a black King is crowned in Africa, redemption will be near!”.

HAILE SELASSIE I

And this coronation actually took place in Ethiopia in 1930, when the "Black King" Imperial Majesty Qdamawi Haile Selassie I received the honors alongside his Empress Menen I Asfaw, in a joint and equal coronation, a man and a woman crowned and governing a nation together. A historical fact. HMS Haile Selassie I has great importance for contemporary history, receiving the title of "Man of the Millennium", and it is no surprise, as it was he who inserted African nations into the context of international human rights and who developed the first constitution for an African country, updating and joining his nation in the league of nations and later in the United Nations. He was also the founder of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963, demonstrating his great focus as King in the field of social development, independence and industrial sovereignty, having helped many African countries to create their own constitutions and free themselves from colonial systems of slavery. The Majesty worked hard to provide education to Africans, inserting them into international professional fields. His leadership was spirited and his treaty was one of peace and unity among all peoples, in a government that aimed to universalize the world to such an extent that it would become a great human fraternity. Haile Selassie I is a man of peace and never liked war. He was a humble and faithful devotee of Jesus Christ and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. As long as there is an inferior race and a superior race, the world will be permanently at war!" says an excerpt from a speech by Haile Selassie I to the United Nations in 1966, verses that were set to music by singer Bob Marley in the song "War".

MARCUS GARVEY

Also worshiped by several global reggae artists, especially Burning Spear, Marcus Garvey did not accept this proposal for an equal world for everyone as proposed by Selassie I. Garvey did not work to be accepted by the system created by white people, much less to make peace with them. He said: Europe for Europeans, Africa for Africans, China for Chinese!” Garvey had a thirst for justice, and during this period he even met with leaders of the Ku Kux Klan to propose a plan for the division of humanity, where white people would be divided between America and Europe and Africans would all return to Africa. In the meantime, Hitler had his hygienist ideas of sovereignty of the Aryan race and wanted to dominate the world.

CONFLICT OF IDEALS

Although they lived at the same time, their lines of thought were disconnected. In his exile in England from 1935 to 1941, Haile Selassie did not grant a visit requested by Marcus Garvey at Fairfiel House, where the King resided with his family during that period. Haile Selassie I's ideals were messianic, diplomatic and aimed to unite all races and all peoples for international benefit.Garvey, on the other hand, had a different dream and verbally attacked the Majesty of being more white than black. In 1937, he wrote an article in "The Black Man" magazine - published in London - entitled "The Failure of Haile Selassie I as Emperor", saying that the Majesty was cowardly and disloyal, with a government that. For Garvey, Selassie I's government was pathetic. The article cited was included in the book of statements called "Marcus Garvey said...". Garvey fought for black supremacy, believed that black people were superior to white people and contributed greatly to the Pan African movement around the world through his independent figure who encouraged self-love, self-confidence, hard work, resistance, centralization and organization. Even with the notorious conflict, the universe of the Rastafari movement sees in Garvey and Selassie pillars of examples and teachings, two leaders who with courage and determination sought justice and reparation for their black people, wronged and punished by ancient brutality.

REVENGE IS NOT JUSTICE

We can compare these stories with that of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, who had different views on the same topic: the civil rights of black Americans in the 1960s. Revenge is not justice and violence generates war, just as forgiveness generates unity. Poetically or revolutionarily, the fact is that Martin Luther King was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize while Malcolm X was brutally murdered.

ART IMITATES LIFE

There are rumors that the late writer Stan Lee, famous for being the creator of the Marvel Comics Universe, was inspired by the stories of Luther King and Malcolm X to create the characters Professor Xavier and Magneto respectively. Both mutants, one seeks to be accepted by humans in a peaceful way, while the other prefers to take revenge and end humanity. Interestingly, the two are always betrayed by humans. Over the years, in addition to civil rights, the story of the "mutants" was also embraced by the LGBT+ movement in the fight for equality and acceptance. Obama and Nelson Mandela also had the opportunity to be in the presidential chair of their respective countries, but even so, structural racism remained in force worldwide and few things were changed. In addition to university and professional quotas for black and brown people, we will still need a few decades or centuries before the different social positions are truly achieved and, who knows, balanced among peoples. With all this, we hope that humanity looks a little more at its roots and origins. The first human beings and the first humanoid societies originate from Africa, we are all Africans in essence, we are the extension of Africa in its origin. Denying Africa is denying yourself. Everything is Africa! We have to have love, we have to BE love, and do to others what we would like them to do for us. This is the greatest rule of the Divine science of life. Everything is a mirror. May humanity unite in one heart of peace, love and unity. RasKadhu is the lead singer of the Reggae band JAH I RAS. Chairman of R.U.F Brazil (Rastafari United Front), RasKadhu has visited in the last twenty years around the planet some of the main communities and mansions of Rastafari Universality in Shashamane (Ethiopia), Marcus Garvey Camp (South Africa), Templo del Sur (Chile) and RUF Headquarters (Brazil), meeting and living with some of the main organizers Elders and Mamas of the culture, continuing his pioneering work of approaching and decoding the culture Rastafari for the Portuguese language.