[matt hooley]

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BTW, we get it, you are taking a class on Reggae and feel the need to flex your newfound expertise.

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well I was really just trying to make a meaningful contribution to the discussion, but I can see how you could get that.

re: Tosh's death. I'm not sure on the specifics but that's what I had read. It just troubled me that someone meant to imply his killer was some kind of homeless freeloading bum (maybe our ethnocentric interpretation) when it was really a brother rasta.

re: Salassie. Most rastas do consider him divinity, like the second coming of christ, and this was certainly the traditional view. In the pronouncement of "Haile Salasie I" they are implying a connection and association with the divinity of Salassie and themselves. Indeed many famous Rasta leaders have proclaimed themselves to be Haile Salassie, it had to do with part/whole relationshions.