Call to stop Rastafari profiling
by YVETTE BEST
A CALL has gone out to all faiths to help stop Rastafari profiling.
Speaking at Monday’s celebration of African Liberation Day in Jubilee Gardens, Ras KudosSage I said it would call for people to speak in one voice.
“As we set about to eliminate the remaining vestiges of racism, let us be mindful of the fact that there is another scourge called religious intolerance, which the Rastafari community finds itself head to head with.
“And we are calling on our brothers and sisters in faith to help us to combat this scourge and this offspring called Rastafari profiling,” he urged.
The representative from the Ichirouganaim Council for the Advancement of Rastafari (ICAR) said his brothers and sisters were still being persecuted.
“Rastafari finds itself in a position where we are continually persecuted for the way we practice our worship and for the very things that define us as Rastafari,” he said.
Noting that the African black man was similarly persecuted and rose from that position, Ras KudosSage I said “it is my hope and dream that Rastafari will do the same”.
The representative from ICAR informed the crowd that there would be a healing activity at Jubilee Gardens on June 20 at 6:15 p.m., and he invited people from other faiths to come out in solidarity.
Tribute was paid to I’Akobi Tacuma Maloney in several of the evening’s presentations and the event has been planned on a date three days after the first anniversary of the death of Maloney, who died at Landlock, St Lucy on June 17.
His death has since been determined misadventure by the Coroner’s Court.
Tags: African Liberation Day, all faiths, Coroner's Court, Healing of the Nation, ICAR, misadventure, persecution, racism, Ras KudosSage I, Rastafari community, Rastafari profiling, religious intolerance