In fact, Kunta Kinteh and the
others weren't slaves per se, they were subjugated. A crime was committed
against them and I don't think I care if anyone disagrees. According to me, a
slave's innately slavish. A slave's that person who by his conduct is
everything but a freeman, yet thinks he's acting on an unforced choice, simply
because he has no shackles on him.
A slave's one whose devotion to
another person is as if he's the property of that person; someone whose
thoughts and life is subject to someone else's volition; someone who has
absolutely no power of resistance, even when resistance is all what's required
of him; someone who is ever ready to act on another man's services even against
his own will, and against the wellbeing of the people he claims to love.
A freeman will respect his
spiritual leader. He is demonstrative of his sense of duty to work and to the
one he works for. He's reasonably dutiful to his elders and to honourable
political figures, but he bows not to no slave master, because at the end of
the day, he sees everyone as a human being. That's why the Rastaman is a
freeman. Be free, man!
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