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Big up the great Bob Marley
2023-02-06 13:14:50
2023-02-06 13:27:37
In reply to Chrissy
Big Up…
A few days ago an American Caucasian sistren of mine posted something on social media that surprised me..she welcomed the start of Black History Month by bigging up Bob and how much he inspired her ….even cited some of Bobs great works and imploring others to listen to Babylon by Bus…I have known her for over 20 years and had no clue that she was that deep into the culture 
2023-02-06 13:29:57
Bless Up to The Legend.
2023-02-06 13:51:25
2023-02-06 14:07:45
2023-02-06 14:17:16
In reply to FanAttick
You missed out...
2023-02-06 14:24:01
In reply to Larr Pullo
You missed out...
She used to be in a Cube outside my office..every day she was on the phone crying over some boyfriend issue…she was breaking up with someone new every week it seems….maybe that was the inspiration she took from Bob…
that was a red flag to stay far far away(and that was long before mee tooo)
2023-02-06 14:38:14
In reply to Chrissy
Big up the great Bob Marley
Indeed!
Bob has cut a swath throughout the musical landscape even more than four decades after his untimely passing.
I am somehow disappointed though that some of his offspring seem to lack his social consciousness and racial pride.
A case in point: his daughter Cedella seem to be afflicted with the Michael Jackson syndrome and is vanishing before our very eyes.
WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE?
From : THIS
To THIS
What was wrong with her beautiful Black skin?
2023-02-06 14:43:18
In reply to jacksprat
Have to agree on some level although her contribution to the Reggae Girlz is excellent.
Lovin di Binge!
2023-02-06 14:46:31
In reply to Chrissy
Her contribution to the Reggae Girlz is indeed commendable and beyond reproach!
2023-02-06 14:53:57
In reply to jacksprat
THe self hating of our skin and hair is beyond sad.
It's an illness
2023-02-06 20:32:04
In reply to Chrissy
This comment leg mi buss Wailers/Peter 400yrs.
The disease is called Brain-washing. Marcus, Malcolm and MLK all explained it in speeches. An African on scholarship was asked )circa 2000) by an African-American sister if wearing her hair natural was a political statement. She replied no Economic! Notice neither said cultural.
2023-02-06 21:45:59
In reply to Chrissy
I was Jamaican consul in New York when I got the news. I went into my office immediately and sat down thinking of the loss and the impact. Then I took a notepad and a pencil....
Reggae King
Dread wailer
Live forever
In the hearts
Of a world
Grieving
Contemplating
A wilderness bereft of sound
Wailing anew
From that mighty breast
Joyous with recall
Short
Rastaman
Erect
Head thrown back
A leonine plateau
Standing tall
Majestic dreadlocks
Sedate now
Now alive
And vibrant
Reaching flashing
Trench Town's medusae
With a life of their own
As the Wailer
Possessed
With the suffering
Of a world
Downpressed by men
Dressed in uniforms of brutality
Agonizing
Electrifies
Prancing lithe
Before a microphone
A mercury
For the
Reggae King
No woman don't cry
Bob is joy for I an I
Don't try to cold him up now man
Bob reach Mount Zion highest region
No woman don't cry
Bob's joy is for I an I
The rock
The society
Refused
Is become
The main rock
Of his universe
For now we see the light
(For we wrestle
Against spiritual wickedness
In high places)
And we wrestle in song
In music vital
Strictly ital
And wrestling
We prevail
In victory immortal
Over stingless death
No woman Don't cry
Bob is joy for I an I
Don't cry to colt him up now man
Bob reach Mount Zion highest region
Live dread wailer
Live forever
Dread dread wailer
Live forever!
ewart walters
new york 12-5-81
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2023-02-06 22:13:59
In reply to Ewart
Wicked brother Ewart. Well done
2023-02-06 22:32:16
In reply to Ewart
Fabulous
2023-02-06 23:46:21
In reply to Ewart
Excellent.
2023-02-07 01:37:21
In reply to Chrissy
When Soviet leader Brezhnev passed the Hungarian students in my dorm were playing redemption song over and over again. The dorm “police” came in and told them they could not play the song and took the LP. They told me about it the following day on campus and as soon as I got home I blasted redemption song but no one came to my room. Of course Guyana was no threat to Soviet hegemony unlike Hungary
2023-02-07 02:16:14
In reply to Ewart
Fantastic stuff Ewart
I was in single digits in terms of age when Marley died so I didn’t quite get the impact. But I do recall I was at junior school as we call it at Knox. During devotion…yes devotion ..we have that every morning from 8:30 to 9:00 …a teacher spoke about it and in her radio tape recorder ..you know the one with the cassette player.. she played redemption song. I still remember.
Hard to pick one Marley tune. But that Survival album is the best. Zimbabwe. Every man have a right to decide his own destiny. And in this judgment there is no partiality.
2023-02-07 14:47:38
Ride Natty Ride
Dreadie has got a job to do and he’s gotta complete that mission
To see his hurt is their greatest ambition…
Unnumbered Eva really listen dat?
2023-02-07 16:53:04
In reply to rudebway
Was that Ms. McNamee?
2023-02-07 16:55:01
Babylon System:
Building church and university, Deceiving the people day by day. Me say dem graduating thieves and murderers, look out now...
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2023-02-07 17:01:31
Wonderful prose, Ewart, thanks for sharing.
2023-02-07 17:03:37
In reply to JoeGrine
No . If I recall, miss McNamee taught English. High school
2023-02-07 17:27:07
In reply to Ewart
Lawd Sah Babylon System. LYRICS
Through Political Strategy they keep us hungry
And when yuh wanna get some food your brother gotta be your enemy-AMBUSH IN THE NIGHT.
2023-02-07 20:44:07
In reply to CricSham
Fascinating
2023-02-11 16:17:26
How big was Bob? I remember his uprising album being released and the tracks/songs were analysed one by one on a radio program, never I've ever heard anything like that on a local Jamaican radio station.
2023-02-11 17:04:08
In reply to Raggs
Yardies were more into D Brown at the time, ent?
2023-02-11 18:59:21
In reply to Curtis
Bob was outernational …first of that kind …Dennis Brown was a local favourite