Shashamane - sottotitoli inglese versione 80’
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Some say life is a journey,
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well if life is a journey,
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it is best to plan that journey
before you embark on it.
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If you are not in control of your destiny
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any force can take you off course.
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If you do not plan your journey,
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any distraction can move you
in a different direction.
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We are moving into the discussion
segment of our program,
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and we are looking at Reparations.
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Tekla, I really want to hear
that quote.
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Ok, "Slavery Reparations,
the time is now".
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How did the Whites
of all nationalities
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deal with the indigenous
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since the discovery of new lands?
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What signifies the fact alone
that wherever Europeans went
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in the name of Jesus,
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such great number
of people have perished already?
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A debt weighs on us,
the good we owe them
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is not active charity,
but Reparations.
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And when we will have done
all that is in our power,
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we will only have repaired a small
part of the wrongs committed.
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Reparations is aligned inextricably,
with repatriation.
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Repatriation is a human right
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for all Africans
who were forcibly removed
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from our homeland of Africa
and subjected to enslavement,
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hence their descendants, that′s us,
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should and must have the right
of return to our motherland.
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Africa was my destination.
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As an African that found
myself in the West,
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it was very important
to know who I am.
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In that quest I knew
that I was an African
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taken from Africa, born in the West.
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While I was in the West,
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home was a physical
house or structure.
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Here in Africa
it is greater than that,
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it is a spiritual connection with
the land, the people and the Creator.
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Rastafari yardie
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go home to Zion
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All of us who made it up here,
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we have reached the land
of Shashamane, Ethiopia.
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We are the true revolutionaries.
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It was a complete challenge
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to make it here to Ethiopia.
Yeah.
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And a lot of people couldn't do it.
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So whenever you see anyone
who came from outside to Africa,
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you have to respect these
people as strong individuals.
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Because there are so many people,
who don′t have the guts to leave
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the developed countries to come here.
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- Fire!
- Pepper!
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Don't trouble it,
don't rub it with the hand.
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Pepper upon the hand.
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Don′t put it on, it′s gonna burn you!
Ok?
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Ok? Ok? Ok?
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Ok!
Don't rub your hand on your eye.
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Every man has the right
to decide his own destiny.
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Those are some words that
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describe my trip
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and my coming back to Africa.
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Because you have
to be serious to decide
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what you really want in life
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and where you want to be.
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Slow down.
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Stop here!
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Dread!
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Yesterday we had a meeting
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where we discussed
what we expect from the elders.
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What kind of things they should do,
how many tasks they should have,
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how long they should serve,
in what kind of things they could intervene.
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All of this is about that.
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The next page
is a nomination form.
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So, once you have read
what we expect from them
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if you think of someone
who could fit
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write his name down.
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- All right. One Love.
- Alright, alright.
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God bless you.
God bless you.
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- Are you tied up tomorrow?
- Yes
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I will be the whole day at church.
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- We will work it out so.
- Yes.
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From the first day of slavery
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our people have been
longing to return.
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We are from Kingston Jamaica,
to Port of Spain Trinidad,
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the whole Caribbean.
You're travelling the Caribbean,
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you have French speakers here,
Guadeloupe, Martinique,
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we are all here,
Antigua, Montserrat, Bermudas,
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from New York to London, France.
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Our people is coming home.
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One by one, two by two,
we are really coming this time.
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After being so long
in the Western world,
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it's a joy to be back in Africa.
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But it's a very great challenge,
because
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we are coming back here
now as foreigners.
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People don't remember
who we are, or forget
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that they sold us into slavery,
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or how we left here.
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It is a hard task of re-integration
with the people.
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It is not as easy as
we thought it would be.
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It is not a bed of roses, well,
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the roses are there
but there are also thorns,
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a lot of thorns.
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That's the reality of returning
to Africa, any part of Africa.
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My sweetie pie.
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I love Shashamane.
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I'm happy I was born here,
and grew up here.
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Maybe I'm gonna get old here.
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On this land grant
I never starve,
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I never go to bed
with a hungry belly.
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It's easy, you just have
to know how to get by.
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Sometimes there's pressure
but still you can get by,
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you can get by.
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'Cause I'm surviving
and I don't have anything.
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We've been...
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Niggers, right? From Niggers
we went to Negroes,
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from Negroes we went to Blacks,
from Blacks we went to
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African Americans,
so it keeps changing.
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And why?
When our central foundation is:
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we are Africans.
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My mother told me:
"I am not an African!
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I didn't come from there" and I say:
"How can you say that?
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When all the slaves died
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for you to even stand here
and tell me what you're telling me?"
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Eliah? Good morning.
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-Love and trust in the Most High.
- Give thanks for your strength.
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We have to make
the community work
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so we are setting up a
council of elders.
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As long as it is not in vain
and things are going to happen,
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progress is going to be made
and it is not a waste of time.
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Your contribution
can’t be a waste of time.
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God bless you.
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Every nation in America
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has retained its culture
and its language.
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We as African people born in America
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weren't given that right
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and it was beaten out of us.
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We were the only ones
that really were abused,
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and misused, and murdered
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like we were some misfit race.
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You know how somebody
is jealous of you
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and just wants to remove you
from the earth?
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That's the way that sometimes
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you would feel in America,
growing up in the South, even now.
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Even now, police
are prosecuting black men.
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I grew up in the 1960s singing:
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"God save our Gracious Queen,
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Long may She reign over us,
God bless the Queen!"
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Can you imagine such a thing as that?
The Queen whose grandmother
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sold my grandmother
and had my grandmother in slavery!
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I was singing: "Long live this Lady!"
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"Long may She reign over us!"
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But that was the philosophy
of the time,
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taught by the school,
and taught by the Church.
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Colonial
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impression of the mind,
enslavement of the mind.
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But with the coming of the King,
it's like the freedom bell rang!
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The Great Emperor Haile Selassie I,
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King of Kings, Lord of Lords,
Emperor of Ethiopia!
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Never before had we as Africans
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seen a Black King or Black Emperor,
because
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in 1930, the projection
of Kings and Kingship
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was that of the White European
dynasty of those who were ruling
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and we were just their subjects,
we were in bondage.
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So you can imagine
the powerful impact it had up on us
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to see for the first time
a Black King.
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Five years after the crowning
of Emperor Haile Selassie I,
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Italy invaded Ethiopia.
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Many, many Black Americans
and members of the Caribbean
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did come to Ethiopia and
fight on behalf of His Majesty.
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They had seen it
as a frontal attack on them,
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the only place
that they could identify
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with as black people, Ethiopia.
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It was after the war now that
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His Majesty, in acknowledgement for
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the blood and the sacrifice that
was made by Africans outside,
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that he granted
this particular piece of land.
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We the Africans who were taken
out of Africa were not forgotten,
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and a place was given
where we could call home.
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That breaks the fairytale,
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'cause my grandmother saw
Africans as monkeys
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swinging on tails,
or the big pot, and the big fire,
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and the White
missionary inside of it,
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and the savage Africans
dancing around.
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So my granny,
you couldn’t call her an African,
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My mother, you couldn't
call her an African,
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'cause Africans were all savages,
barbaric people.
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Twice in His Majesty's time
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the Time magazine appointed him
"Man of the Year".
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Look at the amount of different magazines,
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different newspapers,
that covered that event.
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The King of Kings in royal
vesture was a black man.
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It gave us pride, it gave us hope.
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That instead of being slaves forever,
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we had a homeland that we could
go to, to become free men.
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Our forefathers were taken away
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oh Jah Rastafari
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oh Selah.
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Make us repatriate
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open the gate, make us repatriate.
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Shashamane how are you feeling?
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Shashamane!
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Greetings in the name
of His Imperial Majesty
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Emperor Haile Selassie I,
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King of Kings, Lord of Lords,
Conquering Lion of the Tribe
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of Judah, elect
of God, True Light of this World.
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Today we are presenting the
135th birthday of Haile Selassie I.
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Ethiopia how are you feeling?
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Our journey through life can be
a complex and tortuous process,
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and sometimes we have to sit back
and reflect on that journey,
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where we've come from,
where we′re going.
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In the early 1970s the UK
suffered a massive economic crisis.
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Right wing groups were campaigning for black people
from the colonies to be sent home.
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Racist attacks were on the increase.
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And that’s really how I found out
about Shashamane.
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and the promised land ofEthiopia.
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For Rastas it was a place they could finally call home.
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For Rastas it was a place they could finally call home.
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The problem was, no one had ever been there.
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Did it really exist?
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When I left Jamaica for Ethiopia,
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I was just one year
and six months old.
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It was a long journey,
I don't know about the journey
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'cause I was a baby.
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It wasn't easy for any one
because
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in those days it wasn't civilized.
We had to bring water from the river,
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there were no taps like now,
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for washing we had to go
to the river too.
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- It's not ready.
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Derek Bishton?
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My dear Brother yah!
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- You look pretty here.
- I am old now.
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You were so shy, I had such
difficulty taking
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a picture of you!
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This one is me,
the girl who is dead...
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David′s... Jasmine.
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Oh, back in the days!
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25 cents were left
in my pocket when I came.
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Just like how we had
one pressure cooker,
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this was the first jerrycan we had.
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This jerrycan served all of us.
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All the land over here was empty.
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All this has changed. This has gone.
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This is the only memory of...
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All these have changed.
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Also, I'm gonna show you that one,
'cause you might want that one.
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Oh yes!
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- Oh yes!
- I don't know who took that picture,
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because I am in it.
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Now I'm looking back at myself,
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at that time
I thought I was this big man,
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who was coming to Africa.
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Looking at me now,
I was just a little kid really!
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Yeah that's real kid′s stuff there.
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You know this vest?
We bought it together with Bob Marley.
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I still have this vest, you know.
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This is the original picture.
One of the originals.
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This now, it's me over here,
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I was a little kid,
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I was 27 years old,
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and this is Bob,
this is Bob′s manager,
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his name is Alan Cole,
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and other members of our community,
they are still present.
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When he was leaving
he had promised us
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he would do big things for us.
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But when he went back,
he immediately fell sick.
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Our musical prophet, Bob Marley.
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We, as some of the earlier
youth who took up the faith,
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fulfilled part of the Exodus
that Bob Marley talks about,
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"moving out of Babylon,
to our forefathers' land". Yeah.
/tc 00:36:35:05 00:36:37:08
You know.
/tc 00:36:50:06 00:36:53:07
- Hello!
- Yeah!
/tc 00:36:57:24 00:37:00:10
- Come in!
- Thank you!
/tc 00:37:07:11 00:37:10:20
- This way?
- Oh... yeah, yeah.
/tc 00:37:12:11 00:37:16:09
I came to see your father
when you were just four years old.
/tc 00:37:16:22 00:37:20:03
- Oh gosh.
- When you were just a little girl.
/tc 00:37:20:05 00:37:22:11
Yeah?
/tc 00:37:25:14 00:37:28:08
- Nice to meet you.
- It's lovely to see you.
/tc 00:37:28:10 00:37:31:19
- Are these your children?
- Yes, they are my children,
/tc 00:37:31:21 00:37:35:04
Omega Mark, Jahlissa Mark, come Ja!
/tc 00:37:36:09 00:37:40:00
I am giving her worm
medicine for her tummy.
/tc 00:37:41:20 00:37:45:18
- Second last, I have five girls.
- Five girls?
/tc 00:37:45:20 00:37:49:20
That's wonderful! I have four so
you have one more than me!
/tc 00:37:49:22 00:37:52:15
Yeah? Wow, yeah!
/tc 00:37:52:17 00:37:56:18
- So do you have boys?
- No boys.
/tc 00:37:56:20 00:37:59:13
- Just girls?
- We are in the same boat.
/tc 00:38:00:21 00:38:03:03
I brought this for you,
a little present.
/tc 00:38:03:05 00:38:07:15
Rastafari, Jah bless, Selassie.
/tc 00:38:07:17 00:38:09:24
Thank you very much.
/tc 00:38:17:21 00:38:20:14
What!
/tc 00:38:22:18 00:38:26:00
No way...
/tc 00:38:26:17 00:38:29:21
was it you? Yeah?!
/tc 00:38:30:02 00:38:33:22
My dad did have some
pictures like- Oh gosh!
/tc 00:38:37:19 00:38:42:08
Look at that, that’s such a pretty face
/tc 00:38:42:16 00:38:45:21
and you've grown up to be such
a pretty woman as well.
/tc 00:38:46:11 00:38:49:10
I love my daddy, Jah knows!
/tc 00:38:49:17 00:38:51:22
Oh no!
/tc 00:38:53:04 00:38:55:10
It's not me!
/tc 00:38:56:10 00:38:58:24
- Oh gosh!
- Yes it is!
/tc 00:38:59:20 00:39:03:23
No way, look at this!
/tc 00:39:09:22 00:39:12:17
So, I am 36 now.
/tc 00:39:13:14 00:39:18:09
- Yes that's right, 32 years ago.
- Jah Jah...
/tc 00:39:42:14 00:39:45:09
Oh today is what? Monday?
/tc 00:39:45:23 00:39:48:11
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
/tc 00:39:48:15 00:39:51:11
38 years and four days!
/tc 00:39:54:02 00:39:57:10
Friday was my 38th anniversary.
/tc 00:40:02:00 00:40:04:10
In Shashamane.
/tc 00:40:13:22 00:40:16:01
It was good to come down,
/tc 00:40:16:04 00:40:20:21
watching the land,
and the acacia trees,
/tc 00:40:22:01 00:40:24:12
it was beautiful.
/tc 00:40:24:22 00:40:29:04
Taking this long journey,
seeing this land,
/tc 00:40:29:10 00:40:33:14
I used to say “land,
lots of land, don’t fence me in!”
/tc 00:40:36:11 00:40:38:19
Our faith was
/tc 00:40:38:24 00:40:40:24
that one day we would see people,
/tc 00:40:41:01 00:40:44:09
and we knew that the land was going
to be developed, and become nice,
/tc 00:40:44:11 00:40:47:19
and I live to see it today.
I give thanks to the Most High.
/tc 00:40:48:10 00:40:51:04
that he's spared me to see it.
/tc 00:40:51:14 00:40:54:07
I’m still struggling, but it’s nice,
/tc 00:40:54:21 00:40:58:21
I have no regrets being in Africa.
/tc 00:41:14:08 00:41:18:23
Repatriation is essential. Repatriation is a must,
/tc 00:41:19:14 00:41:24:08
because until the sons and daughters
of Africa forward to Africa
/tc 00:41:24:21 00:41:30:03
Black people all over the world
shall always be used and abused.
/tc 00:41:30:14 00:41:34:22
- It is important…
- When you get to Africa, what will you do?
/tc 00:41:36:05 00:41:39:19
Remember, we were
kidnapped from Africa
/tc 00:41:40:05 00:41:44:03
and taken into subhuman bondage
to build up this system.
/tc 00:41:44:18 00:41:48:15
Even so, once we built up
the system they didn’t say:
/tc 00:41:48:24 00:41:51:18
alright, get out of here
and go back to Africa.
/tc 00:41:52:03 00:41:56:04
When I was in the UK
I’d see things that I knew were folly.
/tc 00:41:56:14 00:42:01:14
You see our people working
for 60, 50 years, 40 years
/tc 00:42:01:18 00:42:04:12
and they are on the same level,
/tc 00:42:04:19 00:42:07:12
and they can’t get anything
/tc 00:42:08:06 00:42:12:14
because the society says:
this is what you should have.
/tc 00:42:32:03 00:42:35:02
There are many children
that are born here
/tc 00:42:35:24 00:42:38:20
and they represent a next generation.
/tc 00:42:40:01 00:42:43:06
Our parents were
not African conscious
/tc 00:42:43:13 00:42:46:05
but we became African conscious
/tc 00:42:46:07 00:42:49:01
and we made the move
to come to Africa.
/tc 00:42:49:08 00:42:51:18
Likewise, we have children that
/tc 00:42:51:20 00:42:55:08
are born here in Africa,
or came here as children to Africa,
/tc 00:42:55:23 00:43:01:00
and our dreams are
not necessarily their dreams.
/tc 00:43:04:21 00:43:09:01
It is a perpetuation of your linage
here on African soil,
/tc 00:43:09:10 00:43:13:09
it shows the fruit of your conquest,
/tc 00:43:13:11 00:43:16:22
because naturally
you have a child to inherit
/tc 00:43:16:24 00:43:20:03
what you have strived and gained for.
/tc 00:44:36:19 00:44:39:11
We pick the five
top students in the class,
/tc 00:44:39:13 00:44:42:18
and from the five top students,
we select the winner.
/tc 00:44:43:01 00:44:46:23
So I expect everyone to be trying to
get that Karl Hamilton scholarship.
/tc 00:44:47:03 00:44:51:02
Ok?
Thank you so much.
/tc 00:45:38:03 00:45:42:11
There are more than
13 millions black people
/tc 00:45:42:13 00:45:48:02
who died in this event
that they created,
/tc 00:45:48:04 00:45:50:17
there are more people that died than
/tc 00:45:50:21 00:45:53:14
when Hitler had killed off the Jews.
/tc 00:45:53:17 00:45:58:21
There are more who died than
the ones who died in Hiroshima,
/tc 00:45:59:14 00:46:02:01
and there's no talk,
/tc 00:46:02:03 00:46:05:15
there's no compensation,
there's no anything.
/tc 00:46:06:04 00:46:11:09
And there is no help
for us to return to Africa.
/tc 00:46:12:13 00:46:14:23
Even at this time you can see
/tc 00:46:15:08 00:46:18:22
the amount of Africans
who are being drowned,
/tc 00:46:18:24 00:46:23:11
who are killing themselves
to cross the sea.
/tc 00:46:23:13 00:46:27:22
Outside of Italy,
and all of these other places,
/tc 00:46:28:04 00:46:33:12
people are dying to cross
and to come to Europe.
/tc 00:46:33:14 00:46:36:24
When they come to Europe,
there is no work for them,
/tc 00:46:37:06 00:46:41:22
so it's like they′re gonna be
another problem.
/tc 00:46:42:18 00:46:46:11
Because everyone feels as
though everything is in Europe,
/tc 00:46:46:15 00:46:50:01
but they have a life in Africa,
/tc 00:46:50:03 00:46:54:07
so I think that they need
the Africans from outside
/tc 00:46:54:12 00:46:57:16
who have a different mindset
/tc 00:46:57:22 00:47:00:20
to help to restore Africa.
/tc 00:47:36:20 00:47:41:02
We came with 5 other persons,
/tc 00:47:42:24 00:47:45:20
six of us, to stay.
/tc 00:47:45:23 00:47:49:24
Three went back after
for different reasons,
/tc 00:47:50:06 00:47:54:07
and three of us stayed until today.
/tc 00:48:13:01 00:48:16:12
You have to want Africa
for Africa to want you.
/tc 00:48:19:17 00:48:24:19
You find a lot of people don't have
that inner strength to persevere.
/tc 00:48:27:03 00:48:30:13
Another one who was here
he stayed for quite a while,
/tc 00:48:31:10 00:48:36:12
and became frustrated after some
time, and went back to Jamaica.
/tc 00:49:17:01 00:49:19:08
In any story about Jamaica…
/tc 00:49:20:08 00:49:22:17
the most important word
/tc 00:49:24:03 00:49:25:11
is slavery.
/tc 00:49:30:21 00:49:33:18
In the late 60s it was illegal
/tc 00:49:33:20 00:49:36:10
to have any book that
advocated Black power.
/tc 00:49:36:12 00:49:40:09
If you were found with a book written
by Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael,
/tc 00:49:40:11 00:49:43:11
Walter Rodney, you could
be arrested and imprisoned,
/tc 00:49:43:13 00:49:46:24
and this is a Black nation.
These are books by Black people,
/tc 00:49:47:01 00:49:49:21
about black people,
on behalf of black people.
/tc 00:49:49:24 00:49:53:02
But our government
banned these books
/tc 00:49:53:07 00:49:57:04
and made them illegal.
So all of this generated
/tc 00:49:57:10 00:50:00:06
a type of social antagonism
/tc 00:50:00:08 00:50:04:00
that resulted in violence
and people feeling dispossessed,
/tc 00:50:04:02 00:50:06:04
as if there was
no future for them here.
/tc 00:50:06:07 00:50:08:08
So the call of the
Back-to-Africa movement
/tc 00:50:08:10 00:50:11:20
became very appealing
and very strong.
/tc 00:50:12:00 00:50:16:07
And the visit of His Imperial
Majesty to Jamaica in 1966
/tc 00:50:16:17 00:50:20:17
caused a huge awakening
of African consciousness,
/tc 00:50:21:00 00:50:25:01
and dramatically increased the desire
and the number of people
/tc 00:50:25:03 00:50:29:16
who wished to eventually
get to Ethiopia.
/tc 00:50:43:14 00:50:48:08
The Emperor came
in his diminutive style and stature,
/tc 00:50:48:16 00:50:53:00
but there was just dignity
in every step and move he made,
/tc 00:50:53:02 00:50:56:06
there was regal dignity
that could be seen.
/tc 00:51:43:09 00:51:45:14
Idleness,
/tc 00:51:46:22 00:51:49:03
treachery,
/tc 00:51:49:06 00:51:51:11
revenge,
/tc 00:51:51:13 00:51:53:20
cruelty,
/tc 00:51:53:24 00:51:55:24
impudence,
/tc 00:51:56:01 00:51:58:02
stealing,
/tc 00:51:58:04 00:52:00:04
lying,
/tc 00:52:00:06 00:52:03:15
profanity,
debauchery,
/tc 00:52:04:02 00:52:06:06
nastiness,
/tc 00:52:06:08 00:52:08:14
and intemperance;
/tc 00:52:09:14 00:52:11:19
Who is the “African”?
/tc 00:52:12:21 00:52:16:16
Who are the people
that we are enslaving?
/tc 00:52:17:08 00:52:19:15
Who are they?
/tc 00:52:20:15 00:52:23:04
If they theorize the body of “African”
/tc 00:52:23:06 00:52:25:11
to be a stealing body,
/tc 00:52:25:18 00:52:27:23
an ugly body,
/tc 00:52:29:06 00:52:32:11
a criminal body, a lying body,
/tc 00:52:33:13 00:52:36:02
an intellectually challenged body.
/tc 00:52:36:04 00:52:40:23
If Africans are denoted
in that manner,
/tc 00:52:41:14 00:52:44:22
it means therefore
you can do anything to them.
/tc 00:52:46:11 00:52:49:12
Slavery ended in Cuba
/tc 00:52:49:17 00:52:52:23
in 1886.
/tc 00:52:55:20 00:52:59:12
Slavery ended in Brazil in 1888.
/tc 00:53:01:05 00:53:05:01
This was five years before
my father was born.
/tc 00:53:05:07 00:53:08:15
My father was born in 1893.
Slavery ended in Brazil
/tc 00:53:08:17 00:53:11:02
in 1888.
/tc 00:53:11:23 00:53:16:01
And in the United States in 1865,
/tc 00:53:16:11 00:53:20:06
and in the French territories
in 1847.
/tc 00:53:27:08 00:53:31:23
This global modern frame of
/tc 00:53:32:06 00:53:34:19
desecrating people by enslavement,
/tc 00:53:34:21 00:53:38:23
By colonial subjection,
by conquest, by genocide,
/tc 00:53:39:24 00:53:43:11
one of the things that it has
done to many Europeans,
/tc 00:53:44:11 00:53:48:18
is to prevent them from being able
to walk and feel,
/tc 00:53:49:05 00:53:51:10
to walk in the shoes of Black people
/tc 00:53:51:13 00:53:55:19
or other non-European people
and to feel for them.
/tc 00:53:57:07 00:54:01:16
In other words,
it destroys or deadens
/tc 00:54:01:22 00:54:04:17
the culture of empathy.
/tc 00:54:06:18 00:54:09:17
If we look at those
who own the economies,
/tc 00:54:09:19 00:54:12:20
even in Caribbean territories today,
/tc 00:54:15:08 00:54:17:24
the big owners of the economy
do not look like
/tc 00:54:18:01 00:54:22:02
the majority of the populations,
to this day.
/tc 00:54:22:21 00:54:25:15
And it has nothing to do
/tc 00:54:26:09 00:54:30:09
with over 350 years of enslavement?
/tc 00:54:31:10 00:54:34:00
and it has nothing to do
with over 100 years
/tc 00:54:34:02 00:54:39:00
of post-slavery colonialism?
Of course it does.
/tc 00:55:13:18 00:55:17:12
Yes. May 25th, 1973,
/tc 00:55:17:19 00:55:22:11
as a young man,
not yet reaching my 20th birthday,
/tc 00:55:23:00 00:55:26:10
already married with one child,
/tc 00:55:27:03 00:55:31:07
I found myself standing
on the tarmac in Bole airport
/tc 00:55:31:09 00:55:33:20
in Addis Ababa.
/tc 00:55:36:05 00:55:39:10
Very early I realized that
there was a lot of tension
/tc 00:55:39:12 00:55:43:23
and a lot of opposition
to the Emperor's government.
/tc 00:55:45:07 00:55:48:05
But the tension kept growing,
and by September
/tc 00:55:48:11 00:55:52:06
we were really
/tc 00:55:52:09 00:55:56:09
discombobulated on New Years′ Day
/tc 00:55:56:11 00:55:59:22
to hear that the Emperor had been
arrested and was overthrown.
/tc 00:56:00:09 00:56:02:18
Then the following day, the 12,
/tc 00:56:02:20 00:56:06:21
the abolition of the monarchy
was announced, and the...
/tc 00:56:07:09 00:56:11:14
installation of a Provisional
Military Administrative Council,
/tc 00:56:11:16 00:56:16:19
known as the Derg,
that began its reign
/tc 00:56:16:21 00:56:20:04
and became a nightmare
for the Ethiopian people.
/tc 00:56:29:16 00:56:32:24
The military government
nationalized all lands.
/tc 00:56:33:07 00:56:37:23
By March 1st
our land was invaded
/tc 00:56:38:00 00:56:41:19
by Ethiopian farmers,
/tc 00:56:41:24 00:56:45:16
who interpreted
the nationalization of lands
/tc 00:56:45:18 00:56:49:02
to mean that our land grant
should be confiscated
/tc 00:56:49:04 00:56:51:05
and we should return to Jamaica,
because it was
/tc 00:56:51:07 00:56:54:12
the Emperor who gave us the land.
/tc 00:56:54:16 00:56:56:23
So they came and took it.
/tc 00:56:57:11 00:57:00:08
When we reported this to our embassy,
/tc 00:57:00:10 00:57:04:16
they offered all of us
a ticket back to Jamaica.
/tc 00:57:19:09 00:57:21:09
So did you hear anything
from our brothers
/tc 00:57:21:11 00:57:23:11
in Shashamene land recently?
/tc 00:57:23:13 00:57:27:15
- I know you are in touch more
than me. - Yeah, yesterday,
/tc 00:57:29:19 00:57:33:04
I had a good talk with the brothers,
and things are happening,
/tc 00:57:33:06 00:57:35:24
and there is movement taking place.
/tc 00:57:37:01 00:57:39:21
People are coming in and
all kind of things are happening.
/tc 00:57:39:23 00:57:43:06
- New people are coming in?
- Yeah, it's a big community now,
/tc 00:57:43:08 00:57:46:09
- not a little community like when we
were there. - That's right! - Yeah!
/tc 00:57:46:11 00:57:48:11
We would be afraid to walk
from Brother Baugh, 'cause
/tc 00:57:48:13 00:57:54:13
- jib would eat us. - We had
to run the hyenas all that way!
/tc 00:57:57:01 00:58:01:18
It's a great job and the brothers
over there who hold onto it,
/tc 00:58:02:11 00:58:05:17
are doing more than a great job.
Brothers and sisters who hold it,
/tc 00:58:06:02 00:58:08:22
they need recognition,
/tc 00:58:08:24 00:58:12:11
because without them,
all who are coming there now...
/tc 00:58:13:11 00:58:16:03
All of that we did in the beginning
would have been in vain too.
/tc 00:58:16:05 00:58:18:08
Of course, of course.
/tc 00:59:05:24 00:59:09:04
We have left our families,
our friends
/tc 00:59:09:08 00:59:12:14
from wherever part of the world
we came from.
/tc 00:59:12:16 00:59:14:16
And we are here.
/tc 00:59:14:18 00:59:18:15
If someone is sick, another person
have to take care of them,
/tc 00:59:19:02 00:59:22:11
if someone die, we have to bury them,
/tc 00:59:23:13 00:59:29:12
if the children need
that moral support,
/tc 00:59:29:17 00:59:33:16
we have to give it to them.
So we need one another.
/tc 00:59:52:13 00:59:56:14
We were taken away
and taken to the West
/tc 00:59:57:02 01:00:02:09
and we are the ones now
who have the Western training,
/tc 01:00:02:11 01:00:05:14
the Western knowledge
and technology.
/tc 01:00:10:21 01:00:13:24
It's not an easy road,
but unless they can understand
/tc 01:00:14:03 01:00:16:18
what part we play in Africa,
/tc 01:00:17:05 01:00:21:08
we are not able to assist
with our skills.
/tc 01:00:21:10 01:00:24:23
It is just a matter of time
/tc 01:00:25:01 01:00:29:15
for the Ethiopian government
to acknowledge us
/tc 01:00:30:03 01:00:33:17
and give us our identity
as Ethiopians.
/tc 01:00:46:14 01:00:51:01
So let the words of our minds
/tc 01:00:51:04 01:00:56:01
and the meditation of our hearts
/tc 01:00:56:04 01:01:01:03
be acceptable in Jah's sight
/tc 01:01:01:07 01:01:05:10
oh Rastafari.
/tc 01:01:14:12 01:01:16:20
During the Derg period,
/tc 01:01:16:23 01:01:19:17
after the overthrow
of His Majesty's government,
/tc 01:01:19:22 01:01:22:18
most land was nationalized,
/tc 01:01:23:02 01:01:26:01
including our land grant.
/tc 01:01:26:15 01:01:30:09
But some of the brothers
that were here made protests
/tc 01:01:30:15 01:01:34:11
and a portion was re-returned
to those who were here,
/tc 01:01:34:13 01:01:37:08
not to those who were still to come.
/tc 01:01:37:10 01:01:41:14
Those of us who came after that,
found ourselves in a predicament.
/tc 01:01:42:00 01:01:45:03
Because although we are
on the original land grant,
/tc 01:01:45:22 01:01:49:15
it is occupied
by the indigenous people.
/tc 01:02:15:00 01:02:18:22
This is an "o" you know, so is ho...
/tc 01:02:20:10 01:02:23:09
- Came ho...
- Home.
/tc 01:02:23:13 01:02:26:20
in a...
/tc 01:02:26:22 01:02:31:00
- bag... - Big.
- Big ba....
/tc 01:02:32:19 01:02:35:13
- basket.
- Ok.
/tc 01:02:35:23 01:02:38:17
You could make a song from that.
/tc 01:02:39:07 01:02:41:18
Where is my ball?
/tc 01:02:42:02 01:02:45:20
I looked under the bed,
I looked behind the door,
/tc 01:02:47:04 01:02:49:24
I looked under the stool,
/tc 01:02:50:17 01:02:54:14
then home comes my father.
I say: "my ball, I can′t find it".
/tc 01:02:54:20 01:02:58:05
- And what happened?
- I found it. - Good ending.
/tc 01:02:58:23 01:03:03:01
Ok? After a lot of problems,
you get what you are looking for.
/tc 01:03:23:09 01:03:25:14
Amba pons in Marabella is the place.
/tc 01:03:25:16 01:03:29:08
"Amba pons" means there is
a big problem in Marabella.
/tc 01:03:29:20 01:03:31:23
This is in Trinidad you know.
/tc 01:03:32:00 01:03:35:16
So, it is what
you call slave uprising.
/tc 01:03:37:12 01:03:40:17
What does it mean
"c′est la meme perdi gangan"?
/tc 01:03:40:21 01:03:43:20
It means the same old thing
is going to happen.
/tc 01:03:43:22 01:03:48:04
That means they would just...
they would kill anybody.
/tc 01:03:49:22 01:03:52:16
Ambas pons in Marabella,
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C'est la meme perdi gangan.
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Ambas pons in Marabella,
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C'est la meme perdi gangan.
/tc 01:04:02:09 01:04:05:09
Ambas pons in Marabella,
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C'est la meme perdi gangan.
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Ambas pons in Marabella,
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C'est la meme perdi gangan.
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Ambas pons in Marabella,
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C'est la meme perdi gangan.
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C'est la meme perdi gangan.
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C'est la meme perdi gangan.
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C'est la...
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When it comes with the documentation
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that is the biggest problem.
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Because we haven't got
the papers for the land.
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So, the problem of the land
could lead to banks,
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bank accounts, or even loans,
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or certain business that you want
to do, transactions you can't make,
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because they are gonna ask
for your papers for your land.
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Now also, if you want to take
a local business,
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that's the same problem.
Where are your papers?
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The land grant
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was granted by His Majesty.
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Ethiopians have turned their backs
on His Majesty,
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and because of that
they don't want to honor
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anything that His Majesty did,
but they won't take away
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everything that His Majesty did.
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Then it's like everything
is still left in limbo.
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And we end up being
a people in limbo.
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It's like you have
a British passport,
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but you're not gonna get
the British government agitating
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for you to be citizens in Ethiopia.
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It's like you have
a Jamaican passport,
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but you're not gonna have
the Jamaican's agitating,
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because this is not known.
/tc 01:07:15:22 01:07:19:03
In Africa, this tribal aspect,
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disappoints me really.
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And then the fact
that they don′t know
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our past,
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means that even today,
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if they could send us back,
they would send us back still.
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They do not understand
really why you are here.
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They have this American dream,
to have a life of luxury.
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That is the problem for me,
the disappointment,
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that is always
the ignorance of the people.
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Always the ignorance.
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Sometimes in life you have to make
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a decision that is a sacrifice
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for what you believe in.
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I struggled, and I have seen
my brothers and sisters struggle
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to make home what they wanted to be.
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And it wasn't easy.
And it is still not easy.
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Because people are coming still and
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this is what they have
to think about.
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Is it really home?
Can we make it our home?
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The essence of power is the
ability to define someone′s reality
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and have them live according
to that definition
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as though it is a definition
of their own choosing.
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High on the agenda
for me is the removal
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of the Queen of England
as the Head of State of Jamaica.
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When she visits here
and she speaks to the parliament,
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I've heard her say:
"my government in Jamaica".
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So she doesn't believe
in Reparations, she believes that
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we must continue to work
to benefit her country.
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In other words, true independence
has not yet come.
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We are not truly independent
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because we still have the colonial
master as head of Jamaica.
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By the sweat of your brows
You′ll surely eat bread
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God is here
and always will be everywhere
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We work like a slave night and day
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The little that we really achieved
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We give thanks and praise
unto Earth′s Rightful Ruler
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African Israelites, hear your voice
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I'm calling from away down
in the West
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Where all that they teach us
is nothing black
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is any good
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Often times when I'm depressed, I say
"Boy if I had never left Ethiopia?"
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but anyway.
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The military was more
and more unpopular,
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there was more and more resistance,
there were a lot of people dying
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on a daily basis.
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The reality of that moment was...
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I am leaving this place before
anything can happen here.
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Better to go back to the West,
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grow your family,
consolidate things, and
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wait on the Lord,
he shall bring it to pass.
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The memory of home,
and my mother in particular.
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She wasn't a woman that complained
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or made an issue of the fact
that we didn′t have much
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but she was a hard working woman
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and she put her children first.
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That is also a part of the traits
I have inherited from my mother,
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to take pride in the things
that you do or don′t do them at all.
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So my only desire if I was
to go back to the West
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would be to see my mother before
she passes on to her next journey.
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She's up in age, but because
of the situation here,
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we are not able to freely move.
/tc 01:14:09:13 01:14:13:01
Ethiopia allows
the Rastaman to be here,
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in the sense that they are not
persecuting us, or chasing us away.
/tc 01:14:25:05 01:14:28:06
But Ethiopia is a country
where you need an exit visa,
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you need permission to leave.
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We're in a catch 22,
we are free to leave
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but it would cost us paying
the immigration a lot of money
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because we came initially
on a tourist visa
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and that situation
hasn't been resolved yet.
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So, anybody that wants
to see Ras Mweya,
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let's make sure that you have 20$
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for 12 months, for 17 years.
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And that to free me,
plus 10.000$
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on stand by for the court,
plus the airplane ticket.
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Jesus, keep me near the cross
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there's a precious fountain
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free to all
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a healing stream
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that flows from Calvary's mountain.
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In the cross, in the cross
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be my glory forever
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till my raptured soul shall find
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rest beyond the river.
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Near the cross I'll watch and wait
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hoping, trusting forever
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till I reach the golden strand
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just beyond the river.