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...Ras Tefari, whose moniker was usurped by Jamaicans to name a new religion that had supposedly existed in Ethiopia, was crowned as Haile Selassie (Power of the Trinity)...I was a regular visitor to an exiled Fitwari (knight) who happened to reside across the valley I called home (beit) for 2 years...Selassie ordered him removed from Addis because he refused to address the Emperor in formal Amharic as he (the Emperor) was a younger man...
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Rather interesting. So when came the Dreadlocks, and weed?
...don't know about the dreadlocks, but the weed has been around forever...a short distance from the Jamaican school in which I taught was (is) a dirt landing strip for ganja flights to the US...my groundskeeper (one Mr. Sevens) had a ready supply that he sold chopped or unchopped by the kilo...Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
How do you get these good jobs? :)
...my grad school roommate found an ad in the NYTimes that advertised teaching jobs in Jamaica. Desperate to get out of the US, I was on the Yellow Bird flight 2 days after graduation: 2 years of reggae, ganja, Wray & Nephew white rum...and ""O" level Shakespeare. What a ride...
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"Lion of the Tribe of Judah"...great title...
There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
- H.I.M. Emperor Haile Selassie the 1st.
I do wish more people had listened to him.
...I imagine he did, too...Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang