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Marcus Garvey
30 years ago on 7/7/77 Reggae trio of Joseph Hill, Albert Walker and Kenneth Dayes, Culture released their seminal debut. Of course I wasn’t even around back then but I’m probably sure I’d have gone rasta the second I heard the beginning notes of anthemic “Black Starliner must come.” How can you not heed the call for Marcus Garvey’s Black Starliner which chants “They take us away from our homeland, and we’re slaving down here in Bablyon!/We’re waiting for an opportunity, for the Black Starliner which is to come.”
Fortunately after 30 years, black people have gained equality in almost everything including wealth. In fact if you were a Martian on an earth debut watching Rap/Dancehall movies or Cribs on MTV, you’d think the entire world history was the exact opposite and feel sorry for the white guy. No matter how anyone defends it “capitalism” is one of the biggest and ruthless predator memes in the world, even more than religion. Only half a century and all the opposers are now slave to the system, and no matter how you try to get out of it the system always gets you in. (Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem.) Anyways nuff rant, no matter what you do, even if you have a ton of blings and luxurious suits and 10 cars, you’ll never ever ever be as historically important as 1/100 Marcus Garvey or influential as Culture, so go figure.
On a side note, “I’m not ashamed” seems to be a reference to Cat Stevens’ Wild World, no?
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