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Rastafari developed among an oppressed people who felt society had nothing to offer them except more suffering.Rastas may regard themselves as conforming to certain visions of how Africans should live,reclaiming what they see as a culture stolen from them when their ancestors were brought on slave ships to americas an jamaica , the movement's birthplace.

The messages expounded by the Rastafari promote love and respect for all living things and emphasize the paramount importance of human dignity and self-respect. Above all else, they speak of freedom from spiritual, psychological, as well as physical slavery and oppression. In their attempts to heal the wounds inflicted upon the African peoples by the imperialist nations of the world, Rastafari continually extol the virtue and superiority of African cultures and civilization past and present.

Shawn Garrett - Photo by Romanowski.

Russ Barone - photo by Romanowski.