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Many times when I walk down the street in America and other places, sometimes I feel rejected still. I think England is the most prejudiced side of the world towards black and white, and they do it diplomatically. Still, Rastafari knows that there are good and bad in all elements. You just have to know how to identify them. [He talks about color prejudice in Jamaica, where there is favoring of lighter skinned children within the same family]. It’s the Willie Lynch syndrome. Willie Lynch was a West Indian plantation owner. He came to Virginia (in 1712). And he said, "Gentlemen. While I trod through Europe I see them use cross and ropes to hang their dead bodies, while you in Virginia use ropes and sticks." Him say you are killing your merchandise, which are the slaves. Because when you have production to get out of the field, you are killing your slaves that them buy for money. Yeah. He said I bring some of the newest but yet some of the oldest methods from the most modern plantation in the West Indies. So he said that he’s going to BREAK I’n’I, just like how he breaks the horse. He brings the horse from its natural environment into an abnormal environment where if he doesn’t provide for the ass, the ass doesn’t have anything for himself. He said, just like you use a horse to make a child with an ass, and get a stiff-necked mule, which is only good for working, that is what him want to do to the black man. All the blacker masses must have offspring with the [fairer skinned] black woman. So the fairer ones stay in the house and the darker ones stay in the yard, and the much darker ones work in the field. You turn tall ears against short ears, you turn old against young, woman against man. It’s a whole scenario. That’s the Willie Lynch syndrome that is still destroying black people even to this day.
B: Yeah, everyone should find their own fig tree, because the Bible speaks of their own roots and fig trees. Proverbs speak of your own fig tree. Everyone should find their roots. And go back and build up that. Because at the end of the day, when every other nation call out, if I’n’I should be in a strange land, how can I survive? By the Rivers of Babylon where I sat down, and I hung my harp on willow trees, and say that I’ll sing no more. How could I sing King Alpha song in a strange land? Rastafari. "Yadd Away Home" came from all different types of meditation. It’s just about reading. Because I left school when I was in ninth grade, you know. When [Hurricane] Gilbert blew in Jamaica (1988) that mashed up my school. Because I’m very young, I’m just 28. LG: So you seek for that knowledge. B: Every time. Rastafari knowledge every time. Because knowledge is food to the soul. You can catch Bushman live in concert at the Bob Marley Day Celebration in Long Beach, CA on February 16. For more information, please check out http://www.bobmarleydayfestival.com/VenueFiles/longbeach.html. Special thanks to Bushman for his time and candor, to Gregory Stephens for editing help and guidance, and to John Bent and Chrisinti for access. Please see related articles: http://www.jahworks.org/music/interview/bushman.html --------------------------------------------- Laura Gardner is the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of www.jahworks.org and is known for her in-depth interviews with top international reggae artists. Her work has published in the BEAT Magazine, Reggae Review Magazine, the KALX Radio Program Guide, as well as other reggae-based websites. She can be reached at editor@jahworks.org. |
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