didn't you wonder, as an American or European teenager what that was all about?
Yeah, that's kind of what I meant about
fucking with my head. I should have said, "fucked with my life," because I wondered about it enough to move halfway across the country to try to learn. ;) About both the music and the culture. Moving from Minnesota to Jamaica didn't seem wise, so I went to California, which is the next best thing. As you might imagine, Minnesota was not a hot bed of Caribbean culture, so there wasn't much to learn there.
to the Rastafarian musicians it was one of the if not the central motivation behind their music, if I get it right.
Jah is the motivation and inspiration behind everything Rastafarians do. In theory, anyway. But people are still people, so Rastas living in
Babylon have a lot of dichotomies to wrestle with.
It's an interesting thing, and you can read a little bit about in my book!
A Passport and a Clean Pair of Socks will be coming some time in 2025 or 2030. Or 2040. Depending on how the rewrites go, and how long I live. I might just put a star on the manuscript so it can be published after I'm dead.
