"To believe that it was the Report that brought about the change that you suggest is to inflate the influence of the Report out of all proportion to what actually occurred. It wasn’t the Report that brought about the change—it was the Rastafarian movement that brought about the change, not the University Report. The Rastafarian brethren seized the Report and converted its recommendation for a mission to Africa into a tremendous counter-propaganda weapon. It was the intuitive genius of the brethren that wrested control of the narrative in the ensuing ideological struggle. The biggest changes were still to come, however. The incredible music that poured forth in the sixties, all in the name of Jah Rastafari, swept everything and everyone before it. With the historic visit of Emperor Haile Selassie to Jamaica in April 1966, the winning of the battle for public opinion was complete."
Posted on: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:39:04 +0000
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