Happy There is No Chance of a Rasta Government
Every so often, I am “treated”, via the media, to what Jamaica would look like if a Rastafarian government was ever to be elected.
With these and future elections to come, all I can say is that if we ever were to have a Rastafarian government in power, that would be the end of us.
Perhaps the most immediate change that would be imposed on us is a denial of the right of freedom – both of speech and action. Whenever I hear Rastafarian “intellectuals” preach about the need for us to be a proud race, it always involves intolerance for any views that appear to be anti-black.
Those of us, for example, who don’t believe that we black people are completely innocent of the cause of our present state or think that non-blacks, and especially white people, cannot be held accountable for our current state, are routinely branded as “traitors”. Indeed, I am certain, that supposed roast breadfruits like me would be done away with in a heartbeat.
Our excellent race relations record that we have struggled so hard and long for would be destroyed. Non-blacks, and especially whites, would become targets for all kinds of discrimination. Whites, in particular, would have their assets taken or “redistributed” to compensate us blacks for some supposed wrong. The allocation of wealth would no longer be primarily based on hard work, but skin colour.
Talking about wealth, our national economy would be radically reoriented towards one main activity – the production of ganja. Based on the utterings of many Rastafarian intellectuals, lands currently being used for many other agricultural activities would be “liberated” and transformed into ganja production.
Our entire economy would be transformed into one primarily based on ganja. Priority would be given to ganja medicines, seasonings, teas, paper and indeed, everything else that can be made from ganja.
Our religious diversity, for which we are renowned, would come to an end. Christians in general, and Roman Catholics in particular, would be targeted for special persecution. The hated white god and despised Babylonian pope would be replaced with the “rightful” Selassie.
With the repeated calls by these Rastafarian intellectuals for reparations, Jamaica would immediately have a new primary foreign policy – the pursuit of justice for slavery. On account of this, our country would be shunned by the world and we would become a pariah state – worse than Eretria and North Korea. As for repatriations, many of us would be strongly encouraged to go to that supposed paradise that exists on the other side of the Atlantic.
I am so happy when I see, during every election, that our Rastafarian political parties are failing to gain any sort of meaningful public support. For the sake of all of us, I really do hope that this remains permanent.
Michael A. Dingwall
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