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Re: Bob marley and odda light skins
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">'prophet' is a subjective thing...one man's prophet is another man's criminal;
jesus is a god to some christians, a prophet to some muslims and a regular man to some jews...all prophets in history have been human beings.
to many rastafari, marley is a prophet, full stop. just as garvey is also...
mi cyaan agree wid yu pon dis one....
ras planno actually knew marley personally and spoke on him...ras planno said marley was prepared to do the works he did because they recognized he was given the tools needed to reach a broad audience...
if you study music, marley's music in my opinion is more catchy & appealing sonically than most of tosh or bunny music & no less militant;
marley used blackwell as much as blackwell used marley;
the man was driven and hard-working and determined to get his message out by any means necessary- malcolm x was lightskinned too- i guess that made him appeal to white people more than darksinned martin luther king??;
marley's stance was unequivocally african/black and he hailed the black man's god...he is revered in africa for his songs of black redemption & upliftment;
-africa unite
-war
-blackman redemption
-black survivors
the list goes on and on;
peter tosh also signed with foreign labels and sang with the rolling stones and all of that; they pushed him too...
john holt was lightskinned; why was shabba bigger than supercat? should it not have been the other way around if it's all about skin color?
dem cyaan disrespect the king
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But mi kno yuh kno seh a nuh Bob alone, from de lyrics tuh de muzik it was a group effort. Mi nah disrespekk breddah Bob atall, but babylon did have a hand in his game.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">'prophet' is a subjective thing...one man's prophet is another man's criminal;
jesus is a god to some christians, a prophet to some muslims and a regular man to some jews...all prophets in history have been human beings.
to many rastafari, marley is a prophet, full stop. just as garvey is also...
mi cyaan agree wid yu pon dis one....
ras planno actually knew marley personally and spoke on him...ras planno said marley was prepared to do the works he did because they recognized he was given the tools needed to reach a broad audience...
if you study music, marley's music in my opinion is more catchy & appealing sonically than most of tosh or bunny music & no less militant;
marley used blackwell as much as blackwell used marley;
the man was driven and hard-working and determined to get his message out by any means necessary- malcolm x was lightskinned too- i guess that made him appeal to white people more than darksinned martin luther king??;
marley's stance was unequivocally african/black and he hailed the black man's god...he is revered in africa for his songs of black redemption & upliftment;
-africa unite
-war
-blackman redemption
-black survivors
the list goes on and on;
peter tosh also signed with foreign labels and sang with the rolling stones and all of that; they pushed him too...
john holt was lightskinned; why was shabba bigger than supercat? should it not have been the other way around if it's all about skin color?
dem cyaan disrespect the king
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But mi kno yuh kno seh a nuh Bob alone, from de lyrics tuh de muzik it was a group effort. Mi nah disrespekk breddah Bob atall, but babylon did have a hand in his game.
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