by proldic » Fri Oct 28, 2005 4:35 pm
"There was a teacher from Ghana in the West Indies, his name was Walter Rodney. He was a Marxist and a rebel in the 60s. He was hero...and when it came time for the fall semester in '68 in Kingston the conservative government wouldn't let him into the country. There were riots in Kingston over this. Peter stole a truck and drove it through the main display window of the biggest department store in downtown Kingston and this mob ran in and looted the place to the ground," <br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>United Nations bullshit! (furious). Me no wanna hear that argument there. Who are them who take counsel against I&I, to see that I&I are separated from I&I culture? He who created the earth created herb for the use of man, seen? If herb was growing in the blood-clot United Nations, you think Jamaica could go tell United Nations what to do? So how come the bumba ras clot United Nations dare to come and tell us what to do? Fuck the United Nations! My Father grow herb, and if my Father know what is right would have made herb growing in the United blood-clot Nations, not just in Jamaica for I&I who praise him continually.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>From One Love Peace Concert April 22, 1978:<br><br>Yu have all some little pirate now they just come from America...with them camera and them TV business, to go do what? To get rich off of I and I. <br><br>...Every time me go inna jail it's pure poor people me see in there...This concert here, well them say it's a <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>peace</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> concert. <br><br>I man never love coming up [I never wanted to come here]<br>Ya know why? <br>Because what? -- 'cause it's a <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>peace</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> concert<br><br>And I wonder if many people realize what the word <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>peace</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> means, eh?<br><br>Ya see, most intellectual people in society think the word peace means "coming together". <br><br>"Peace" is a diploma you get in the cemetery, seen?<br>On top of your grave, that is marked: <br>'Here lies the body of John Strokes' -- 'rest in peace'.<br><br>And I know many of you little brothers wouldn't like to hear your daughter say she's going to give away a little <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>piece</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->...<br><br>So you can imagine how defective <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>peace</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> is.<br><br>This is an integration concert, when black people come together and figure out the destructive element between I & I,<br>that segregate I & I, <br><br>which was a force laid down by lucifer<br><br>But now that I know that lucifer's hand and foot will soon be bound and I shall cast him into outer darkness<br><br>and bring LOVE and JUSTICE to black people once more<br><br>That we long to hear a gun fire, we long to see one die<br><br>'cause learn this, man:<br><br>White man teach I to say I & I have to die to have to go to heaven. Why? So the white man can come to Jamaica and take away the whole sun? And inherit the earth? And we've gone away to heaven to drink milk and honey <br><br>Cause they have a <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>fool</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->. They tell we the cow jump over moon and dish run away with spoon, you ever check that? That is to make our cares not of the earth.<br><br>Learn this, man. It's just some games that Christopher Columbus, and Henry Morgan and Sir Francis Drake, and Bartholomew de las Casas, who was the first guy to come with the cross round his neck and come to trick black people...<br><br>Right now black people is Israel, and they think "we want to hold them and the only way we can hold them is to say 'see the cross here' and to follow Jesus and he'll soon come back" <br><br>Look how <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>bloodbath</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> long we wait for Jesus.<br><br>All the bloodbath, all the war on the earth, Jesus can't do a thing about it, he's a grass-cat (do-nothing).<br><br>So who's going to do that?<br><br>It's I and I that have to come together...<br>with love, seen? <br><br>-- Heartical love -- and respect for each other.<br><br>'Cause them little (devil) we're done with, ya know what I mean? We can't let the little pirates that come here --- and I'm glad the prime minister and the minister of opposition is here and members of parliment is here --- we can't let the little pirates that come here rob the resources of the country.<br><br>'Cause that's what they've been doing a long long <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>bloodbath</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> time.<br><br>And poor people have nothing but blood clot and a bag of shit...<br><br>Things have to be done, seen!<br><br>Cause the earth shakes now, and Jamaica is one of the richest west indian countries in the world.<br><br>Jamaica could feed the world...I see thousands of acres of land lying about htere, where we could plant herb, and make shipments of herb...<br><br>we don't want none of this business here, we want equal rights and --- what?<br><br>Justice.<br><br><br>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<br><br>Steven Davis:<br>What about your political speech at the Peace Concert?<br><br>Peter Tosh: <br>I devoted my time and my energy to making a speech, because sitting before me I saw the prime minister and the whole establishment approximately. So it seemed the right time to say what I had to say as a representative of the people, because irrespective of the way I would like to live, I still must live within the shitstem. I've become a victim of the shitstem so many times.<br><br>Stephen Davis: <br>What happened to you after the speech?<br><br> Peter Tosh: <br>Three months later, yes, yes, yes! I was waiting for a rehearsal outside Aquarius Studio on Half Way Tree [a main Kingston avenue], waiting for two of my musicians, and I had a little piece of roach in my hand. A guy come up to me in plain clothes and grab the roach out of my hand. So I say him, wha' happen? He didn't say nothing, so I grab the roach back from him and he start to punch me up. I say again, wha' happen, and he say I must go dung so ["downtown" in police jargon]. I say, dung so? Which way you call dung so? That's when I realized this was a police attitude, so I opened the roach and blew out the contents. Well, him didn't like that and start to grab at me aggressively now - my waist, my shoulder, grabbing me and tearing off my clothes and things. Then other police come and pust their guns in my face and try brute force on me.<br><br>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Long time a prisoner. Long time they wanted. Long time they accused. Long time they condemn. Long time them killin. Long time them crucifyin'. But this is the dispensation...<br><br> Little did you know, I art here. It has been a long, long, long time - historically long time I've been accused, many times con- demned, incriminated and discriminated illegally and unlawfully without no righteous cause. Only jah know. Who feels it knows it. Seen? <br><br>I and I step to this planet they call Jamaica, not to be condemned by men, but because of the illegal shitstem designed by the slave drivers. (Tosh pauses while the audience laughs) Sounds like a joke, but the facts are what is joke to you is death to him. When you laugh I am condemned, and I see you laugh everyday and die everyday. Sounds like a joke, but it seems as if all of you have crossed your heart and hoped to die. I'd like to know why, seen? Well, now is the time when Israel must arise, irrespective of the illegal condemnation by men, irrespective of how men may feel in this dispensation of time. Jah live. Rastafari lives - mighty and thunderable Rastafari. Only in this valley of Jehoshaphat is the name, Rastafari, illegal. You pay four dollars in courthouse to say raas. Sounds like a joke, seen? <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>But I and I don't intend to live upon this little piece of the planet as an insignificant alien.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Excuse my vocabulary. 'Cause many people take Rasta for the baggage of the earth. As my brother said - serious 'ting. Is long time I and I been accused and been looked over the shoulder like a piece of dirty rag, seen? I want this society to begin to respect and recognize what the prefix Ras means, irrespective of the laws of Babylon. I and I did not come to subordinate to the laws of Babylon. We are in Babylon. but make sure you are doing not the works of Babylon. Col' I toe, oh ye man of Babylon. <br><br>This reggae music is a music that in Jamaica it's not insignificant music. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Everytime I turn on the FM, I have to hear funky, get down, shake your booty. And I don't waan' none of that, for the music that I sing is a wakening unto the slumbering mentality of them that sleep, seen? And the music that I sing is always condemned and banned in some diplomatic ways, that sometimes when I play my music and people hear it and the way they accept it, I have to wonder why - Rastafari. But I want the rulers of the earth to recognize the people of the earth, and to love the people of the earth, 'cause they are the resources of the earth.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br><br>When I speak, I don't speak like a politician, because my Father come to waken those who sleep and to bring people closer to light, because they are in darkness, seen? I was in the same darkness too, heading for destruction. Lost into fantasy, seeking for reality. But this little society. and not only this one, the world universal society launches an attack diplomatically and psychologically to defamate, and to incriminate and to discriminate the concept of Rastafari - to make it look insignificant within their society. And what are the works of their society to prove I to be insignificant? I and I deal with righteousness, irrespective of what men call righteousness. 'Cause most people think say, is when you go in a church on Sunday, with your clean clothes and your jacket and tie, you're holy, seen? But I don't wann' to take my Father's business for no joke business, and when I speak, I speak of those who intend to look like I and defamate the characters of I, because I see the determinations of the society is to praise the dead and incriminate the livin', seen? From I born, I never think of discriminatin' no one or incriminatin' no one. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>All I think is live and make sweet music and relieve the depressed minds of people who are so frustrated because of economical pressure.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> I don't waan' to go on like I no suffer under the pressure, 'cause I know it, seen? I know it. Due to unfavorable financial condition, I am unable to cope with this financial shituation. But it no joke business. Don't waan' hear vou talk 'bout, well just stop talk and sing. No more o' that, 'cause in the beginning was the word and the word was with Jah. But in this time Jah say: "I call upon the singers and the players of instruments. All my springs are in thee." <br><br>Do men know what the springs of Jah is, or are, according to your English grammatical bullshit. If I did follow the English grammar, I know I would be speaking present tense and past tense and those. But I know many oonoo look 'pon Rasta as a chump...ganja smoker ...mad. I don't smoke ganja, and the only thing one can be discriminated or incriminated for is the possession of ganja, seen? Them take out the "g" to make you don't realize is "gang" in ganja. All that is in the darkness has come to light, seen? And don't blame the Rastaman for exposing the darkness into light, because by your works we shall know you. So I don't waan' to talk - too much talkin' business and promises. Fools dance to comfortable promises. Well, my Father say, fell oonoo say 'nough 'nough baddie, go and lie dung, seen? <br><br>Irrespective of who you waan' be, or who you waan look like, or what your denomination or organization, you see, if oonoo don't respect and accept Jah Rastafari. You think is a joke business? I see the whole world praising God and Jesus, seen? And all they are headed for is destruction - financially. physically, spiritually and morally. Truth I deal with. The truth creates offense in a one heart. Make guys talk all kind 'tings - 'tink wha' dem waan 'tink. But when Jah speak, earth crumble. So, marvel not and talk 'bout what kind of man that, seen? There are many say they come in the name of God to do the work of God, but when I check 'pon the work of God, it is destructive to I and I. Everyday I in jail. Charge fe what? Ganja. Who made the laws? God. Laugh, think it is a joke business? True, dem don't know what is God or who is God. There are so much gods that exist. The 12 gods of Babylon - Sagittarius, Aquarius, Pisces and Leo. Check it out, 'cause all a bwoy hear them say, "Wha' you is? Wha' sign you is?" Leo? How can you be leo? Leo is a Pope. Rastafari is thunderable. I don't waan' to take Him for no joke business. Don't care fe try and hide 'im name. Cyaan hide. Don't care to try to make 'im name insignificant and illegal in the society. The works of man exist. Don't care to try to incriminate or discriminate. Jah live. <br><br>Rasta got nothing within the society, but we multiply the little nothing with a little nothing, and we got something, seen? Grudgeful men who went to school and got their education did not know how to multiply naught with naught to get one. Same man with divine inspiration, knowing how creation has been created from it was until now. It is still unfathomable to the modern scientists, or what them waan' call themselves. <br><br>Well, don't care what's going on - the shitstem. You waan' go home? G'wan home. The last man tell I say 'im waan' go home, and I don't see 'im yet. And I no go a funeral. What I speak is wisman, knowledge and overstanding - not understanding, seen? And I sing the same thing. You have fe feel it and know it and just go say well. All in a Buckingham Palace, the queen dance. You think is a joke business because you know say - God save the queen. The queen dance to reggae music, because reggae music is the only music that has that spiritual ingredient that can heal a sick nation. Seen. Chuk it me bredda... <br><br>Once upon a time, when I first came to this planet earth, I was told, taught and brainwashed that herb, otherwise known as ganja, is the most dangerous drug and poison. And the I was taught to be afraid of it. And it is a good thing I am in permanent contact with Jah, for I say, Jah, I do not take influence from men, it is you that show I what is right and what is wrong. ..<br><br>Don't take this thing here for joke. And gawan like uno dep coke and uno just done eat a whole piece of pork. <br><br>Do you know what is happening? All sheep of the fold has scattered, and everyone is suffering from this great thing called "ego." Everybody is busy involved in himself. The respect for humanity has been lost. Seen? No man respects his fellow man again. Every man loves big bumba money in him back pocket. Every man loves material things more than his brother, but learn this, if you don't learn to be your brother's keeper... <br><br>Long time, I don't perform here. Performing on stage at seven o'clock in the morning. Sun rise to greet I, but not only I, the sun rise to greet everyone who have the heart to stay until this morning from last night. <br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>What else can create an incident like this one? <br><br>Only reggae music.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br><br>The music that is not respected in its own country. No joke business, when I talk, heart shook up, curl up. <br><br>And I want it to look like reggae music is an insignificant music, a music that has no relevance, just the music of a cult. This is no music of no cult. It is ancientcy 185 billion years and more from whence I cometh. <br><br>Don't take this thing for joke business. All of us who love reggae stand accused, abused and disrespected and condemned. Seen? <br><br>Every time I try ten yards Babylon try stop you! What kind ting is dat? And I in this twenty-first century they lock you up for a spliff. <br><br>Can you imagine that after these degradations and humiliations, I've been condemned to hell and here am I standing in the name of Jah! <br><br>But I am not here to exalt myself, I am here to exalt the name of Jah Rastafari, and the music that has been given to I from Jah that will take cover the whole world. The whole world shall be covered with reggae music...We want the truth.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <br><br> <br> <p></p><i></i>