By: Renaldo McKenzie | Author | The NeoLiberal
… However, for many unlike #Fanon, it is not any ideology based in #Marxism or #capitalism that will suffice either; those systems have failed them (#Jamaicans and the #Caribbean and their diaspora) or left them in a state of #schizophrenia. Instead, Jamaicans such as #BobMarley have resorted to a solution based in religion, a religion of self. According to Marley in the 2018 Netflix film Who Shot the Sheriff, the better solution is when he is of benefit to the people, for that’s the only conscious- ness he can have of self. 174 He, like many Jamaicans, has abandoned Eastern and Western ideology for one that is “#Rasta,” a religion born out of self-struggle for a righteous expression of self-power or “Black Power,” and the Black fight for individuality. It was the religion Schleiermacher spoke of, one that is only a spontaneous expression of free will, and everything in the end must contribute to the self-determination of the autonomous individual. For, according to Marley, “we do not defend Marxism or capitalism; we are strictly Rasta! We independent! We don’t have to go to ’merica or Russia to beg. We prefer to stan’ up for our own self, which is Rasta: Black people’s rights.”175 But the self he speaks of here is the collective self of all the peoples and nations who are fighting for freedom of self and economic prosperity.
Footnotes:
174 Bob Marley in Netflix 2018 original film Who Shot the Sheriff?.
175 Ibid.
Page. 160 (Of the book: “Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty And Resistance”)
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