What is the Ethiopianist "view" of Our "hidden" History?
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The real ' roots' of Our Ethiopianist view of "Black people" is based on a long and sometimes 'hidden' history. The so-called "hidden" aspect is due to Slavery days. In Slavery days we (as so-called "negros") were not supposed to "Know Ourselves" (except as "slaves" and "dead blacks" i.e. spiritually dumb, deaf and blind). So much of the "record" of the early days of whats called by many "Ethiopianism" amongst the lost "Ethiopian-Hebrews" (Black and Afra-Americans in the west) is Apocryphal and even Pseudo-pigraphal. Yet, what does remain is TRUTH and the facts that prove it "true".... all embedded in the Soul. Within much of Our "soul" is the music and how we used songs, dance and double entandres to conceal the "hidden message" and the multi-layered meaning(s) as to what and to whom we sung while on the slave 'massahs' plantations in the spiritual Egyptian "hot and burning sun".... These metaphorical chants include (yet, is not limited to) the famous "Lion of Juda(h)" anthem. The chant, as many know and have heard, goes a little sumptin like this:
The Lion of Juda shall break every chain, and give us the victory again and again.
Additionally, there were the likes of Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. who also made much contribution to the rights of "Black people" while being an Ethiopianist and a Rasta in principle. Yes, the ideas that have manifested as "Rasta" were not new or limited to Bob Marley and the Wailers. Yet, the ground place of activity for the Liberation of the Ethiopian diaspora was centered in "Spiritual Egypt", i.e. North America. Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. utter to H.I.M. the FIRST HAILE SELLASSIE (I), the King of kings of Ethiopia, the very "Black king" that:
"WE HONOUR YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE THE SYMBOL WHICH WE PLACE OUR PRAYERS AROUND." Taken from the African Opinion (Oct. - Nov. 1954)
Excerpted from the draft essays Ethiopianism
& Ethiopiawinet by Ras
Iadonis Tafari
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