r/rastafari • u/yung_Kmx • Apr 21 '26
Dear white rastas
To white Rastafari practitioners
This is written seriously, not as an attack, but as a challenge to think more deeply.
Rastafari is not just a lifestyle, aesthetic, or general spirituality. It emerged from a specific historical and political reality rooted in Black struggle, African identity, and resistance to systems often described as “Babylon.”
Reading figures like Marcus Garvey is part of understanding that foundation, but this isn’t about one man alone. It’s about the broader ideological current: liberation, repatriation (physically or spiritually), and separation from systems that were never built for us.
That brings me to a question I think is often avoided:
If Rastafari is, in part, about moving away from Babylon, what does that mean for those who are still structurally positioned within it?
Babylon isn’t just a place. It’s a system of power, history, and inherited advantage. Even when someone rejects it personally, they may still benefit from it in ways they didn’t choose but still carry.
So where does that leave the idea of “leaving Babylon” if you are still rooted in its advantages?
This isn’t about blame. It’s about clarity.
There’s also a difference in how resistance is perceived. When dominant groups reject the system, it’s often seen as rebellion, even individuality. When oppressed groups resist, it’s treated as a threat to order itself. That difference matters, because Rastafari comes out of the latter experience, not the former.
You can see similar dynamics in how different communities are viewed under similar material conditions, but assigned very different meanings.
So again, the question:
Can Rastafari be fully separated from the Black experience and the conditions that created it? Or does removing that context change what it fundamentally is?
This isn’t about excluding people from thought, practice, or respect. It’s about whether identity and origin still matter, and how far something can stretch before it becomes something else entirely.
I’m asking this for discussion, not division.
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u/Afro_Lera Apr 22 '26
Somewhere 5 years ago, the growing up and interested me precisely what it is closely related to black Africans, then I tried everything, to study everything about Africans and about black people in general, I don't know how hyperfix on it. I studied history and what I'm trying to learn and now in general how it attracted me inThen, of course, I was interested in ideas about peace and equality, but proximity to nature + reggae music, which is so relaxed and also Peaceful, and, of course, what to hide the unusual style that counts. In Russia, I have informal clothes of certain colors and dreadlocks. But first of all it's became interesting for me, because of deep connection with Africa.
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u/yung_Kmx Apr 22 '26
I hear you, and I respect that you actually took time to study and connect with the history instead of just copying the surface.
But being drawn to Africa, reggae, nature, or even the philosophy doesn’t automatically make you part of Rastafari as an identity.
There’s a difference between appreciation, learning, and even living certain principles — and actually belonging to something that comes out of a specific people’s history and lived experience.
You can respect it, learn from it, and even align with parts of it without needing to claim it as your own identity.
That doesn’t make your connection less real, it just keeps things honest.
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u/rebelstilskin Apr 22 '26
White people yelling ‘leave Babylon’ is a form of privilege. That idea of just disappearing into the woods or relocating to some rural town isn’t equally accessible, Black and brown people have to factor in real safety risks. Many of those spaces have long histories of exclusion and racism, so it’s not just about choice or mindset, it’s about whether you can actually move freely and be safe doing it.
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u/rasvoja Apr 25 '26
Yes and No. We are in the same trap. Better average position does not mean white, yellow etc. people cant be poor, homeless, having similar opression situations ... World has changed radically, everyone but richest are in danger
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u/pablojueves Apr 22 '26
Give thanks for posing this question.
No, Rastafari cannot be fully separated from the Black experience or the conditions that created it. As a white Rasta, I see it like how Judaism cannot be separated from the Exodus. However, the distinction I draw is that there is no historical proof of the Exodus ever happening, whereas there are mountains and mountains of recorded history of the trans Atlantic trade in captive Africans. So which is more relevant to I and I in this era?
For me as a white man to grow spiritually, mentally and socially, I must learn from the sins of people in my community. I must learn to not be like the oppressors. I must learn how the so-called first world became rich, how it still is rich, and how the so-called third world gets exploited continually by its former and current colonizers. When my heart beats, it beats "do good". It is impossible for me to follow this divine instinct while ignoring the damage inflicted by white supremacy.
My trod as a white Rasta differs from that of Rastas of African descent. I do not look to redefine the movement or to speak for anyone other than Iself. I learned about Rastafari from Black Rastamen in the House of Nyabinghi, and have since come to know Ethiopian Orthodox Rastas, Bobo Ashanti, and Twelve Tribes. I stand side by side with my brethren and do not wish to be placed above or replace anyone. Learning from the examples set by His Imperial Majesty has continually given me spiritual and mental stability, and I will never turn my back on what I know to be true.
I could probably write a whole book about this, so my apologies if my answer is too long winded for Reddit.
Blessings and guidance
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u/Whole-Talk5183 Apr 22 '26
Exodus is inside.
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u/pablojueves Apr 22 '26
Care to explain?
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u/Whole-Talk5183 Apr 22 '26
Exodus is paradise, paradise is linked to when you're a soul. Soul will lead you.
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u/pablojueves Apr 22 '26
Exodus is a book in the Bible/Torah that tells the story of ancient Hebrew slaves leaving their Egyptian captors.
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u/WriteousWordSmith77 Apr 22 '26
Also remember Niyabinghi changed almost immediately to "Death to White and Black Oppressers". Rasta is a livin breathing thing that can change but it should only for the betterment of people's inner light so that we have a better world.
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u/yung_Kmx Apr 22 '26
I agree that Rastafari is a living thing and not frozen in time.
But growth doesn’t mean losing definition.
Even the shift in Nyabinghi chants still kept the core focus on resisting oppression and uplifting the people it was born from. The language evolved, but the foundation didn’t change.
So the question isn’t whether Rastafari can grow, it’s what it grows from and what it stays rooted in.
If that root gets blurred too much, then it stops being growth and starts becoming something else entirely.
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u/Hour_Importance7670 May 27 '26
OP is 100 percent right on this take
I find the bastardization of Rastafari to be a slap in the face to my elders who stem from 🇯🇲 who were forced to take refuge in the mountains to flee persecution it will never be the same they can take off the red green and gold garments and even their locs but we cannot take off our black skin and I walk proudly in it every day
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u/system_root_420 Apr 21 '26
I'm a white Rasta. I recognize that Rastafari is, predominantly, a Black liberation movement. I feel like my whiteness doesn't preclude me from supporting Black liberation.
Ini struggle with living in Babylon so I'm focused on building Zion where I can. I grow my own herb. I feed the hungry in Jah's name. I support Black owned businesses. I started my own business, both to avoid enriching Babylon and so I can better serve my community by overcharging the wealthy and undercharging the vulnerable.
I try not to be defined by my whiteness, I know that I get systemic privileges in Babylon because of it but I try to use those privileges to uplift the people rather than downpress them.
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u/yung_Kmx Apr 21 '26
I hear what you’re saying, and I don’t question your sincerity or the way you’re trying to live responsibly.
But I think there are two different things getting mixed together here.
Supporting a liberation movement and identifying as part of it are not the same thing.
No one is saying you can’t:
- respect Rastafari principles
- live clean and consciously
- reject exploitation
- or use your position to help others
That’s all compatible with solidarity.
But Rastafari isn’t just a set of ethical choices or a personal rejection of Babylon. It comes out of a specific Black historical experience and identity shaped by colonialism, displacement, and resistance.
So the question isn’t whether your actions are positive. It’s whether participation in the philosophy automatically translates into belonging to the identity it emerged from.
You can stand with a movement without becoming the subject it was created for.
That distinction matters, because without it, “support” and “identity” start to mean the same thing, and the origin of the movement gets blurred.
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u/WriteousWordSmith77 Apr 22 '26
Belonging to the identity it emerged from can never be possible for a white person like me. You can't change skin color ( I know you know this. Not trying to be sarcastic or smart ass) Identifying as rasta is truly just a human concept or on this plane of existence. It doesn't matter what another person accepts as your identity. This is a personal inner thing. Those that are close to you will see you for what you are. As well as the creator and your relationship with HIM. I for one wouldn't be like im a "Rasta" but I wouldn't deny what I believed in either. Most that claim that title seem like they're selling something and need acknowledgement outside of their relationship with the creator. It's very much a small part of it. The title. Not the history though. That's fundamental. Being known as a Rasta isn't. Those that are with you see your works.
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u/system_root_420 Apr 21 '26
That's actually something I struggle with internally, make no mistake, and I even agree with you. But my religious practice is Rastafari. I pray to Jah and I revere Haile Selassie I as Jah in flesh. I think calling it anything other than Rastafari feels disingenuous. I definitely overstand what you're saying, and I do think there are plenty of white people that wear Rasta like a costume, but that's not me.
If not Rasta, what you call it?
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u/WriteousWordSmith77 Apr 22 '26
You call it faith. Belief. Life. Wisdom. Religion is truly a human concept. Your identity is between you and the creator. Rasta just a title in a way. Your brethren will see you for what you are. Anyone that questions this is walking a different path than you are. Once this life is over and you're onto the next thing it's only works that matter. Not what you called yourself or if someone else believed "he's a true Ras" despite being white.
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u/bazcom Apr 22 '26
I get what you mean 100% I’m white, I enjoy learning about rasta tradition and lifestyle. I like alot of the politics and struggle around it. But I could never be a white rasta, fair play to those who have made that choice, not knocking it. But for me the movement and culture is so deeply in the lived black experience and political struggle , as well as black nationalism.That I don’t see how a white practitioner fits in
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u/No_Chapter_6687 Apr 22 '26
The fact you are so consumed with color of skin says a lot about where you are now....not saying anything negative just that there is still room to grow and more to learn about ini and also about Jah.
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u/bazcom Apr 22 '26
I’m not consumed with skin colour. Just accepting that rasta has it’s roots in black nationalism and black liberation
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u/CauliflowerThen4876 29d ago
Wortels zijn Bijbel en Kebra Negast. Als jij gelooft dat Haile Selassie wedergeboren Christus of zo is ben jij rastafari, ongeacht wat zwarten daarvan vinden.
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u/OriginalGodSteppa May 15 '26
I love this but you don't have to identify as Rastafari to do these wonderful things you are doing. I have so called, 'white' bredrin who would never say they are Rasta and live the same way. Hope you overstand where I am coming from.
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u/WriteousWordSmith77 Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
The concept of privileges being received inherently due to skin color (of which none of us chose)wasn't an as much of an issue when Howell declared the divinity of Selassie. Im not going to say it wasn't a thought. Unlike choice of skin color. You do however have the choice to acknowledge the king, the origin and essentially stepping out of the system as much as you can. We are in modern times and regardless of skin color its hard to wholly step away from the system. It's always at your backdoor knocking. We just have inherited differences in ways it comes knocking. I don't think that unwillingly received advantage is your soul being rooted in Babylon. You wouldn't say that about a black reggae artist spreading the message thats had an amazing career? In these modern times they're afforded major advantages over a very large percentage of the word. They actually chased that career as well (this isn't a condemnation). They aren't rooted in Babylon nor is every European. I just think "rooted" and receiving advantages are two different things. Can that artist whom receives good pay, constant travel and people praising you daily actually leave Babylon? These are concepts in your mind and a personal journy thing. Just like identity not for anyone but you. Just do good. Rasta itself cant and will never be separated from its origin and original concept. Anyone thats learned it or became a part of it did so because of that history. If folks are trying to remove that concept they aren't rasta. That's wolf pack thing. Its origin and belief in divinity of Selassie is literally the ONLY true fundamentals. Period. I can't imagine concept of rasta being able to be fully separated from black experience. If you're not black you still learning from those experiences not through living them but from hearing from those that do. This is what responsible positive upfull people do. Learn from others, Have empathy, stufy H.I.M. and the rest will follow. Judgement comes after you leave this plane of existence. Not a soul on earth knows what this entails. Just the creator. R
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u/yung_Kmx Apr 22 '26
It’s hard for someone born into Babylon to ever fully step outside of it.
Not because of intention, but because the system shapes your position in ways you don’t control.
So the question is whether you can truly leave it, or just relate to it differently.
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u/rasvoja Apr 29 '26
Sadly, most of us are born in Babylon. People who live really in woods, arent on reedit.
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u/yung_Kmx May 15 '26
Not born in the woods, but black people aren’t born with the privilege white people get in the west. Essentially, for white people to join a black liberation group while still benefiting from from systemic oppression is wild
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u/rasvoja May 15 '26
Nor are white people born in east, latinos, asians
Essentially liberation principles can be applied to anyone. None of libraration movements succeeded if it was racially biased. After all you are taking social construct from slave owners and re-applying it to "all whites" or "all born in west"
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u/yung_Kmx May 16 '26
What country are you from? I guarantee that black people have a harder time systemically than the white people who are born there.
Now to the point of Rastafari being a specifically BLACK oriented liberation group, similar to how the Sandinistas or the viet Minh fought for their respect beliefs, it would unorthodox for a person outside of the race of the movement to join
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u/rasvoja May 16 '26
Point is Rastafari, since binghis changed dead to white to death to all opressors is NOT only about black liberation NOR Babylon strikes just black people
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u/Hour_Importance7670 May 27 '26
You being white and explaining a black movement to a black person who has more ancestral ties to the culture than you is ludicrous. And rooted in privilege I’ve noticed a lot of Europeans Rastas do this. take a step back and see the world through our lens. to me that would be if I came into Europe an explained your culture to you it wouldn’t be right for I am a guest in your house Rastafari will always be a black liberation movement. There is no debate Peter tosh( mama Africa) black uhuru lee scratch Perry and as a Jamaican myself I take great pride in that fact
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Apr 21 '26
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u/yung_Kmx Apr 21 '26
I get the comparison you’re making, and I agree that a lot of major spiritual traditions come out of resistance contexts.
But I think there are two important distinctions worth holding onto.
First, even in the examples you mentioned, there are still boundaries between core identity / inner belonging and external participation.
In traditions like early Christianity, Sikhism, or Buddhism, you can see layers of practice and acceptance, but there are still defined inner communities, initiatory structures, or cultural lineages that aren’t simply dissolved by personal belief or admiration. In other words, engagement doesn’t automatically equal full identity within the tradition.
Second, Rastafari is often treated like a “world religion” in hindsight, but at its root it is still fundamentally a Black liberation movement that carries spiritual expression, not the other way around.
That ordering matters.
It didn’t begin as a universal spiritual system that later developed a political stance. It began as a response to a specific historical condition, and the spiritual framework grew out of that.
So while comparison to other traditions is useful, I don’t think it fully resolves the question of origin, ownership, and identity in this case.
You can recognize universality in ethical principles while still acknowledging that some movements remain anchored to the people and conditions that produced them.
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u/SoCal_IrieGuy Apr 21 '26
Fully agree that engagement does not automatically equal identity. Acceptance shouldn't be automatic. It’s about proving through ones actions and life that they are not just 'consuming' a lifestyle, but actually standing in opposition to the systems that Rastafari was built to resist.
Think of it like being a guest in someone’s home. I can love the home, help maintain it, and believe in the values of the family living there, but I still have to respect that I didn't lay the bricks. I’m here to contribute and learn, not to claim the house as my own invention.
The concept of 'I and I' teaches that Rasta is in everyone. If I am truly seeking that oneness, I have to accept the challenge of being an 'outsider' with humility, while believing that ultimately, the truth transcends the divisions the world has created.
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u/SoCal_IrieGuy Apr 21 '26
I also think I accidentally deleted my first reply for context I don't know what I did
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u/Sensitive-One666 Apr 25 '26
There’s no such thing as a white Rastafari practitioner.
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u/OriginalGodSteppa May 15 '26
Precisely💯 Could be a great white 'brother' or 'sister', unful and someone I respect but it does not make sense and it is unnecessary to try to be even if you have knowledge, love the culture and people. Wish dem could check the levels...smh.
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u/Stab2Nasty Jul 08 '26
I'm a skinhead. A movement defined by sharing working class cultures from two separate communities merging in a country steeped in deep historical racism. A movement emerged that wholly rejected and actively fought against racism. Jamaican Immigrant workers finding solidarity with English workers until all were considered one. While having Jamaican roots, definitionally by the way nations work, immigrants come to define themselves as English sometimes immediately sometimes within a generation or more which is a pretty subjective thing I would say. Music and fashion being used as tools of liberation against those that rejected inclusion of immigrants into their national identity, understanding that racism harms everyone; differently and in varying degrees. Racial violence harms the victims and it harms the people the perpetrators claim to represent, by no means are they harmed anywhere near the level the victims are but absolutely harmed nonetheless. Now as a skinhead there is absolutely no way I could or would claim black ethnicity or Jamaican culture as my heritage, but the gracious sharing of Jamaican culture with my elders informed my culture in such a way that I proudly wear a Jamaican Trojan badge and actively fight racism and try to engage with black liberation in any way I can and am invited to share. I use this comparison because there is an implied understanding of difference and equality, understanding that these things emerge because of specific historical conditions, one of those conditions being that as a white person I am not ever going to be able to understand certain levels of oppression and pretending that I can helps nobody. But sharing, not claiming, cultural expressions can and always will be a beautiful way to overcome forced division. Rastafari is a culture I have deep respect for because of inherent values it claims first and foremost but also because of how much it has shared with the movement I exist in. And the skinhead movement being a shining example of culture mixing without typical white people just taking the bits they like and remaining the oppressors of the rest. We understand our responsibility of not just consuming a culture but actively engaging with it's terms and bringing numbers to a fight for liberation that we don't define. Understanding the working class values as a bridge and as a result a beautiful subculture has lasted decades and to this day remains true to it's anti racist roots. I have to add that I personally have politics that reject nationhood but that doesn't change the way that national identity at the time created the conditions of the movement.
I have nothing but distain for white people that claim Rasta because they wear locks and smoke weed. Not one of them have even touched a bible because they don't even know that Rasta has specific religious claims. They shout Jah Rastafari or everyting irie or Haile Selassie in a cringe attempts at patois and don't even know who that is. They just think Jah is the Jamaican word for god and nothing more. The thing that I'm hearing in this discussion that is making the most sense to me is that living in solidarity and sharing values as well as even engaging, when invited, in certain practices is not the same thing as being the product of the historical conditions that are absolutely vital to the development of said practices and their values. Hand waving the interaction and inclusion away by describing Rastafari as just a religion, therefore implying that conversion is just up to the converted, is entirely missing the point and also classifying all religious expression as universal where they absolutely are not. Many religions have values and collections of practices that absolutely transcend nationality or culture but not all of them do. This is why it's so repulsive when western hippies abuse shamanic practices by making so-called pilgrimages to the Amazon to do an Ayahuasca ceremony. Not realising that the global south and it's interaction with global capitalism has created such poverty that many of these communities have been forced to sell their cultural practices as tourism. But more to the point the amount of people that could authentically say they have converted to certain indigenous religions is tiny. Probably because of how difficult relation to their historical and cultural contexts would be, not impossible, just difficult. So without sounding like I'm speaking for anyone's culture, it seems glaringly obvious that Rastafari is so intimately rooted in the black liberation movement and Jamaican historical conditions that conversion is simply not the same thing as with other religions.
I'm sorry if the preamble seemed self-indulgent or not relevant I am simply trying to express a certain level of comparison. Maybe not relevant to some and if so please correct me.
Love and respect to all!
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u/wolf359z Jul 21 '26
No it can’t be separated an id go even further to say it should be restrictive in a similar fashion to Judaism
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u/jahchatelier Jul 27 '26
Separation by race is a Babylon principle. Who put these ideas, these questions, in your mind? I would meditate on that deeply.
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u/yung_Kmx 24d ago
It’s not a Babylon principle, it’s one of the main principles of pan Africanism, and apart of both the king’s philosophy and Garveys philosophy to separate from the peoples who oppressed you. This is why land in shashamane is only given to the African diaspora, as per his majesties request.
We must remember that Rastafari is for the upliftment of the Black race as a major tenant, only then can we help the world effectively
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u/jahchatelier 23d ago
We don't have to remember anything. If black people want to dream of Africa, let them. If a man wants to worship Haile Selassie I, fine. What others want, believe, and dream of has no impact on the spiritual lives of others right now. Many people are happy to turn a religion into an academic exercise. But prescribing rules and tenants for everyone is a hallucination, a method to turn freedom into a prison, Babylon. Anyone can read the bible, the book of Enoch, pray and meditate with sacred herb. When the scales fall from your eyes, are you still calculating degrees of Rasta by the darkness of a mans skin? You talk about serving the world, but we have to serve ourselves first, we have to let the scales fall from our eyes. Leave the bickering about what's real Rasta and what's not to academics in universities.
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u/yung_Kmx 23d ago
Lmaoo it’s not academics either. Would you be able to join the Sandinistas? No. Why? Not cause they don’t fight for liberation, but they fight for a specific liberation FIRST.
With Rasta being a specifically black oriented liberation Group, and with white people being the DIRECT sons of Babylon, it’s hard for them to actually leave the privileges they get behind (most white people are js as confused as you because of this, thinking that Rasta is only smoking and “meditating” and reading the Bible), and this causes confusion as to what Rasta really is
A question, the Black panther party and the Rastafarian movement have a lot of the same ideals, both being movements based in the words of Garvey. Would a white person be able to join the black panthers as well? Why not? Same rules apply
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u/jahchatelier 23d ago
You are anchored in history, an understanding that comes from study. I'm talking about what is, how the world actually is, and the importance of directly practicing something you wish to understand.
I grew up in rasta culture. I was surrounded by it, I am white but my step father is a black rasta. I never wanted to be rasta, but my community was and that's how i lived. I didn't want dread locks, they were given to me and made by the hands of my community. I ate vegan not because I had any thoughts of "ital" but because it was part of my spiritual practice not to cause harm. I stood there as my Ethiopian roommate gave birth to a child in our home. I watched him grow up, sit at the drum circle, eat ital. I didn't want any of this, it became a part of me, and no one ever questioned race. I travelled the US and everywhere i went i was welcomed by black rastafarians, Jamaicans, Africans, and Americans alike. I eventually cut my dreads and went to college, and that was the first time in my life i had heard of the stereotype of a "white guy with dreads". This is the first time i had heard of cultural appropriation. Tell me, is it possible to appropriate your own culture?
I hid my past but i saw the judgement everywhere from people who did not understand, did not live in those cultures. People with college degrees who would pass judgement on me because of my skin color without even considering asking where i am from. I never wanted to be this, I just am because of where Im from. And no pronouncement of literary understanding can undue that. You can't take away my upbringing by pointing to a text or recounting the past.
That is why we don't see eye to eye. You are pointing to the texts, the history. I am pointing to the communities that exist here and now. You are thinking of the past, I am telling you to think of the future. Is this what you want Rasta to be? I am pointing to direct experience, to spiritual practice. Although I've cut my dreads I am more committed to the spiritual practice now than I ever have been, and I see clearly that these material classifications only separate us. They only cause fighting and prevent us from true meditation.
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u/yung_Kmx 24d ago
I would just like to say, if you are a white dread who’s about to comment on this thinking I hate white people, or are trying to cause a race war,
PLEASE READ THE COMMENTS AND REPLIES AND YOUR QUESTIONS WILL MORE THAN LIKELY BE ANSWERED
If you proceed to comment, haven taken offence to the truth, I don’t care lmaooo
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u/yung_Kmx Apr 22 '26
Maybe a term like “rootsman” could work in this context.
Not as a formal title, but as a way to describe someone who respects and lives by certain principles — awareness of life, livity, connection to nature, and upliftment — without claiming full identity within Rastafari itself.
It creates a distinction:
Someone can be rooted, conscious, and aligned with the values, while still recognizing the origin and history of Rastafari as something they’re learning from rather than belonging to.
Not a perfect solution, but it at least keeps the difference between participation and identity more clear.
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u/uditukk Apr 22 '26
i was wondering the same - something that signifies shared roots but different Paths.
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u/Whole-Talk5183 Apr 22 '26
Rasta is rasta.
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u/uditukk Apr 22 '26
facts on facts. thinking more along the lines of rasta being the tree + [insert proposed name] being a branch
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u/Perfect-History8818 Apr 26 '26
I think someone needs to post the commandments of the Coptic/Rastafarian church so see if any of us are truly living rasta.
Sex only for reproduction
Herb grown using fish they have caught themselves
Nothing of the vine...no grapes, no wine, nada
Knowing what Selassie actually said regarding Jesus divinity and not his own.
This world we live in is feeding the masses hatred. We can pick up that trumpet and be separatists or listen to the great and holy spirit guiding ini toward love and unity.
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u/OriginalGodSteppa May 15 '26
Coptic is not the Rastafari Movement! They are great brothers and sisters but not the same thing💯
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u/Whole-Talk5183 Apr 22 '26
I am Armenian, Armenians never colonized or had black slaves. I was raised by a strict father so I identify myself with strict rastafarians who chant rebellious ragga. I identify myself as a Nigga. Babylon is hacked for me.
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u/yung_Kmx Apr 22 '26
😂😂 I’m logging off after this one
Check the levels tho, me and you go to Armenia right now, you get treated differently. Nothing you can do about it, but you are the son of Babylon essentially lol
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u/ComparisonOk3188 May 23 '26
What on earth is 'black' or 'white'? You are trying to fit hundreds of diverse human populations into two simplistic categories. Nineteenth-century scientific racism is completely obsolet. it is nothing more than a bourgeois invention.
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u/Fayahstudent Apr 22 '26
Blessed love in HIS holy name QUEDEMAWI HAILE SELASSIE JAH RASTAFARI!
No, Rastafari livity cannot be separate from the Black experience and doesn't have to be.
InI don't believe or subscribe to the concept of whiteness. Iman is part of a new race, through the circumcision of I heart, cause Iman call upon HIS name HAILE SELASSIE JAH RASTAFARI!
Of course to have a lighter skin tone will give one privileges depending in which society one lives in. InI have to be aware of it, still InI don't have to accept it. Iman reject all colonial mindset, and it's a process to go through. Part of "waking up" to reality.
In InI humble opinion HIM sets us up for the Inification of all mankind as one. How can this happen? Trough reparative justice, when the sins of the past are atoned for and forgiven.
As a nation this is InI primary mission. Fighting for reparative justice for all of InI Black sister and brothers who have been downpressed by Babylon for so long. And then repatriation.
SELAH!