{"id":50325,"date":"2025-02-13T20:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T20:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/?p=50325"},"modified":"2025-02-20T13:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T13:04:12","slug":"bones-of-appeasement-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/bones-of-appeasement-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BONES OF APPEASEMENT 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"50325\" class=\"elementor elementor-50325\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-72373cb5 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"72373cb5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e9d8e46 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e9d8e46\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style=\"background: #b9b9b9; margin-top: 15px; width: 100%; padding: 20px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; border: 20px solid #824b4b; -webkit-border-radius: 80px; -moz-border-radius: 80px; border-radius: 80px;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">THE SLAVERY-POVERTY <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>INHERITORS<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LORDY22.jpg?ssl=1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50848\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/lordy22\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LORDY22.jpg?fit=2048%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LORDY22\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LORDY22.jpg?fit=300%2C176&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LORDY22.jpg?fit=640%2C375&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50848\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LORDY22.jpg?resize=640%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LORDY22.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LORDY22.jpg?resize=300%2C176&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LORDY22.jpg?resize=700%2C410&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LORDY22.jpg?resize=768%2C450&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LORDY22.jpg?resize=1536%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LORDY22.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LORDY22.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">In the islands of the Caribbean,<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> the vast majority of the population <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>can be rightly described as<\/span> <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>SLAVERY-POVERTY INHERITORS.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">What do we mean by<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> slavery-poverty inheritors?<\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>Slavery-Poverty Inheritors are <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">the uprooted Africans who were <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>stripped of everything and enslaved,<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">and then deliberately <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>kept landless after emancipation,<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">so that they would remain<\/span> <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">a permanently captive labor force.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The Slavery-Wealth Inheritors made this arrangement so as to remove the stigma of being known as slave-masters, and consequently their slaves were no longer known as slaves.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">In this new deceptive arrangement The Slavery-Poverty Inheritors would be<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 24pt;\">confined to small rented boxes on rented house spots, where their sole every-day function is to work for the continuing enrichment of The Slavery-Wealth Inheritors.<\/span><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/houses-in-spanish-town-jamaica-1062511707.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50936\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/houses-in-spanish-town-jamaica-1062511707\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/houses-in-spanish-town-jamaica-1062511707.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"houses-in-spanish-town-jamaica-1062511707\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/houses-in-spanish-town-jamaica-1062511707.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/houses-in-spanish-town-jamaica-1062511707.jpg?fit=640%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50936\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/houses-in-spanish-town-jamaica-1062511707.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/houses-in-spanish-town-jamaica-1062511707.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/houses-in-spanish-town-jamaica-1062511707.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/houses-in-spanish-town-jamaica-1062511707.jpg?resize=700%2C467&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/houses-in-spanish-town-jamaica-1062511707.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">However, <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>these captive labor-suppliers<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> are not strangers to hard work.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">In fact, they worked for hundreds of years without pay before being dumped in the ghetto. But both yesterday and today, <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>their hard work has not prevented them <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>from continually handing down<\/span> <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;\">zero wealth accumulation <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>from generation to generation.<\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 24pt;\">This curse has been going on for so long that <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>the vast majority no longer question <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">their centuries-long confinement to<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> the plantation&#8217;s labor supplying department.<\/span> <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> If current attitudes are carefully examined, <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>it would seem that there is a widespread belief that no matter what they do and <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>no matter how hard they work, <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">inter-generational poverty<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>is The Slavery-Poverty Inheritor&#8217;s<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> God-given destiny.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">So now let us look at how wealth and capital continue to bypass<\/span> these captive<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">Slavery-Poverty Inheritors,<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">and let us look at how their beaten and subjugated mentality conditions them to readily accept a bone of appeasement without too much thought about the larger reality that signals the continuation of their inter-generational poverty.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/can.png?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50371\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/can\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/can.png?fit=1000%2C555&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,555\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"can\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/can.png?fit=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/can.png?fit=640%2C356&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50371\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/can.png?resize=640%2C355&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/can.png?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/can.png?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/can.png?resize=700%2C389&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/can.png?resize=768%2C426&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MEGA CANNABIS GREENHOUSES<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"I_ZkbNhI D_FY W_6D6F\" data-test-id=\"message-view-body\">\n<div class=\"msg-body P_wpofO mq_AS\" data-test-id=\"message-view-body-content\">\n<div class=\"jb_0 X_6MGW N_6Fd5\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"yiv0255593987\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"yiv0255593987yahoo-style-wrap\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot1.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50357\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/screen-shot1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot1.png?fit=4054%2C2062&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"4054,2062\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot1.png?fit=300%2C153&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot1.png?fit=640%2C325&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50357\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot1.png?resize=640%2C326&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot1.png?w=4054&amp;ssl=1 4054w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot1.png?resize=300%2C153&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot1.png?resize=700%2C356&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot1.png?resize=768%2C391&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot1.png?resize=1536%2C781&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot1.png?resize=2048%2C1042&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot1.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screen-Shot1.png?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>FROM SUGAR CANE PLANTATIONS <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>TO CANNABIS PLANTATIONS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2TRIMMINGCANNABIS5-02-13-at-3.50.41-PM.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50523\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/2trimmingcannabis5-02-13-at-3-50-41-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2TRIMMINGCANNABIS5-02-13-at-3.50.41-PM.jpg?fit=994%2C1228&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"994,1228\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2TRIMMINGCANNABIS5-02-13 at 3.50.41 PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2TRIMMINGCANNABIS5-02-13-at-3.50.41-PM.jpg?fit=243%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2TRIMMINGCANNABIS5-02-13-at-3.50.41-PM.jpg?fit=640%2C791&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50523\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2TRIMMINGCANNABIS5-02-13-at-3.50.41-PM.jpg?resize=640%2C791&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2TRIMMINGCANNABIS5-02-13-at-3.50.41-PM.jpg?w=994&amp;ssl=1 994w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2TRIMMINGCANNABIS5-02-13-at-3.50.41-PM.jpg?resize=243%2C300&amp;ssl=1 243w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2TRIMMINGCANNABIS5-02-13-at-3.50.41-PM.jpg?resize=700%2C865&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rastafarivisions.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2TRIMMINGCANNABIS5-02-13-at-3.50.41-PM.jpg?resize=768%2C949&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>What part will the descendants of today&#8217;s Rastafari generation play in this emerging billion dollar cannabis industry that is scheduled to replace the sugar industry?<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Will they be restricted to cleaning marijuana in mega greenhouses for the further enrichment of<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> The Slavery-Wealth Inheritors?<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>Do you remember the time when A Slavery-Poverty Inheritor was treated like he had committed a capital offense if he was caught selling marijuana in an effort to escape poverty? <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>Do you remember the brutality and the decades of repression that prevented The Slavery-Poverty Inheritors from escaping their poverty? <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> Will The Slavery-Poverty Inheritors play the same role in the cannabis industry that previous generations played in the sugar industry?<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">While<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">the right to burn a spliff <strong><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>and plant a few trees <\/strong>without persecution may sound like progress to those who have been long persecuted, the question must be asked: <strong><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 24px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/strong>What is the measure of this progress<strong><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/strong> within the larger struggle to end <strong><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/strong>inter-generational poverty?<\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>Will this generation&#8217;s readiness to settle for<strong><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">the tempting bones of appeasement<\/span> <strong><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/strong>turn out to be the regret of future <strong><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/strong>poverty-stricken generations?<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">After so many years of brutality <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>and systematic keep-down,<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\">full reparations justice<strong><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/strong> that pushes back poverty <\/span><strong><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/strong>is the only goal that will be satisfactory.<\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> But The Inheritors of Slavery-Wealth <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>have long employed a classic technique called <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 36pt;\">Negro deception.<\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> And it goes like this:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\"> Keep the uprooted Africans landless. Keep them locked down in small boxes on a few rented square feet in the ghetto, until their unchallenged landless disadvantage assumes a sense of normalcy.<\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>Then exhaust all of their energy in a bitter fight <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">for something that is really nothing<\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> when viewed from the perspective of <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\">the broader historical reality <span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\">that is essentially about<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\">maintaining Negro servility.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>After exhausting their energy <strong><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/strong>drop a bone of appeasement\u00a0 <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> in the mouth of The Slavery-Poverty Inheritor<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> and laugh all the way to the bank<strong><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">while he is ignorantly celebrating his achievement of rights<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\"> that do not break his cycle of inter-generational poverty.<\/span> <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">Just like CROPOVER.<\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> When he is celebrating <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>the end of the crop<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> Massa goes to the bank and continues<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif;\">handing down inter-generational <span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\">wealth.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">So here is a glimpse of what reparations justice looks like:<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 24px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> A BIG NO to high license fees<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> that discriminate against the poor<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 12px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> and favor Big Capital. <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 24px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> On the principle of land for the landless, facilitate the set up of local food and cannabis cooperatives where land is made available for cultivating both food and cannabis crops. <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 24px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> Government assistance is provided to ensure success. <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 24px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> Legislation is put in place that prevents heavily capitalized foreign companies from operating to the disadvantage of local food and cannabis cooperatives.\u00a0 <span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 24px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> Compensation to those who were fined and jailed during the drug war against Slavery-Poverty Inheritors.<\/span><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 32px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span> The end goal is to put an end to inter-generational poverty by creating prosperous people-centered industry.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 24px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v5udbRoaRpc?si=3nT0sS1hr-A99sFo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"jb_0 X_6MGW N_6Fd5\">\n<div class=\"D_F W_6D6F r_BN gl_C\" 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