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    Ras Tefari Crowned!

    ...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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    Majestically enthroned amid the vulgar herd

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    Rather interesting. So when came the Dreadlocks, and weed?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    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...

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    How do you get these good jobs?

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    ...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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    Ras Tefari Crowned!-123634165_3557372927662033_8019269066107952332_n-png
    "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.

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    I do wish more people had listened to him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    I do wish more people had listened to him.
    ...I imagine he did, too...

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