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You may not have overstood my point about Leonard Howell. My point was, how is it now acceptable for rastas to hate gays, but not aceptable for rastas to hate whites? That is a fair question. As I stated to you previously, I do not know any gays who oppress me or who have ever oppressed my people.
As I stated in my earlier pots, as a black wombman, I can make a better argument for xeonophobia (fear of people who are different than you, such as, white, yellow, brown, red etc) than homophobia (fear of gays). I gave my reasons in my earlier posts.
We all know Leonard Howell's beliefs. Yet there are many Rastas who dismiss his teachings these days, claiming that he suffered from racism hatered of whites aka exonophobia.
My point is that whites have done direct conflict to INI, therefore I would be a fool to ask Leonard Howell "why does he hate whites", considering the era that he was groomed in. Yet if I ask the same of Rastas today, "why do you hate gays", none of them can give me any direct conflict that gays have done to INI. That is my point. My point is that Howell had a reason to hate those whom hurted him. I ask, what is your reason?
So how did we as Rastas go from hating whites to loving them, and now turning our hatred to gays?
That is all that I'm asking. I RASpect Howell!!!
However when I even speak about him among Rastas, they call me racist.
The truth is, I have learned alot since I have been a Rasta. I know there are some Rastas who are old school "believe in the bible", and then there are those who dismiss the bible, and accept a new age form of Rasta that embrace all living peoples with no bias or hatred. I'm somewhere in the middle to be honest.
That is why I asked you earlier, if your feeling toward gays are based on a religious conviction, or is it based on your own reasoning, from what you see in nature? You never really clairified that point.
I also stated earlier you have a right to defend your way of life. I say that, because the white man never hesitate to go to war to preserve his way of life. Therefore I would never stand in the way of a black man who wishes to fight to preserve his way of life.
Now to the sex part of the discussion. Are you saying that every time you touched one among the sistren, that you did so with the sole intention to make a new life? Never was it at any time about lust? But it is I know what your reasoning is based on......RELIGION OR NATURE?
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