written by Andy <ajsolomon@wesleyan.edu>
Subject: Re: (idm) Drexciya: agenda?
quoted 6 lines I picked up this 2cd, which is very good as I expected, but on the inside
>I picked up this 2cd, which is very good as I expected, but on the inside
>there seems to be some type of socio- political statement etc.
>Apparently, "The Journey Home"=all Africans Americans are going to return
>to Africa? For a visit? Forever? This is going to solve race
>relations? I don't understand what they are trying to say....Does
>anyone?
i think you have to understand their message on a metaphorical
level, i equate drexciya's stance to the teachings of the
rasta's in jamacia
one of the foundations of rasta philosophy is "the journey home"
to the rasta's spiritual birthplace - ie africa
they maintain the black man cannot be truly free until he returns
to africa, freeing himself from the oppression of "babylon" ie
western culture
bob marley's "exodus"
the first man to walk this earth did so on that continent
stuart @ 4thworld
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