Sing a New Song

It’s amazing to see how people from the African diaspora will always reunite and sing and dance like we used in the ancient of days like when we celebrated jubilees in Zion. The Ark Of The Covenant dwelt with us during those days so we were protected from other nations. The windrush generation and the Rastafarian community share many things in common, they are a people who were displaced from their home in Africa. We know that we have no place in Babylon because of the way we are treated. Psalm 137 depicts our story, it says  “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song: and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?” So the dancehall scene at the house party in the lovers rock episode was a depiction of a Sabbath service similar to a Nyabinghi celebration. People are carried away in a trance like state through the spirit of Jah and the meditative heights that we reach through Ganjah smoking enhances that experience. Many reggae artist were birthed out of the windrush generation and they emulated the spirit of resistance, Steel Pulse was one those bands that embodied the spirit of belonging and identity. Word Sound and consequent Power is what we use to chant down Babylon, so the spiritual sound technologies harnesses that power and spreads it far and wide, similar to when the trumpet is blown in the book of revelation. It’s an ancient calling back to the spiritual realm which is our origin, the carnal realm is a distraction and a fallen estate. Perfection has never stop longing for us. The book of Matthew 5:48 says “Be ye perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect”.  Philippians 2:12 says ” Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under the foot of men”. I quote all this scriptures because reggae music embodies the seasoning that gives us our flavor, it’s a message that celebrates our remnancy.  

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