Babylonsss

As a Rastaman from the Caribbean the term Babylon takes on a lot of different meanings, but in the Rastafarian community it usually means confusion and we associate the term with police officers who are tasked with enforcing unjust laws of said Babylonian system or shitstem as Peter Tosh would say. oftentimes when I see the X president Donald Trump on the news and when he speaks he reminds me of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon who was very proud, godless and felt like he had an innate right to rule. With a godly fear I wonder to myself if Donald Trump knows how badly  King Nebuchadnezzar was punished. I remember reading about how he was turned into a beast of the field and had to chew the cud like an animal for 7 years, what a dreadful thing to encounter. All of this was to show him that God rules in the kingdom of humankind and  that he gives power to whomsoever he chooses. If he had exuded the spirit of humbleness, servitude, and kindness like that of Makeda the Queen of Sheba, Empress Zewditu, or Emperor Menelik things might have turned out different for him. If our politicians knew that their power derived from above and that they serve the people at the behest of God maybe the world might’ve been a better place, the money does say in god we trust but do they? I see all this homelessness, yet so much green pastures all over the state. I see more commercials for adopting and saving animals than I see for homeless people and then I hear the politicians talk about the budget and I say to myself what don’t they just print more money, they have the machine! In the book of Lamentations 5:4 a prayer for mercy and restoration is sent up to the heavens and it reads, “We pay for the water we drink and our wood comes at a price.” these were the conditions before the Christ, let’s compare that to a scene in a film called Black Girl made in 1966 that I watched in my African Film class, in which a parent sends her daughter a letter describing the hardships in Senegal and having to pay for water. I took macroeconomics and microeconomics and that’s just more confusion, so just give the have nots what they need. The earth freely gives us the trees to build the homes, the paper to print the money and the heavens open up and give us the water to mix the concrete so what’s the hold up. Is it greed or incompetence? In the scriptures Moses was taught the law by his father-in-law Jethro. He was an Ethiopian from the tribe of Judah who ruled Media and this tribe was tasked with being the Lawgivers and administering the law. So my question is are our politicians qualified for the royal office of taking care of human beings? 

Just a meditation from a Rastaman.