We have heard over the past few weeks of Christians and their defenders being assassinated and attacked for their beliefs in the middle east and Africa. However, has anyone thought that the same tactics could be used in Britain on Black Britains?
History:
"West-Indians" are a recognised national minority in the UK. In addition, the Rastafarian and the Nazarites (an orthodox Black Christian group who are akin to the original adherents of Christianity) belief systems, are recognised as a legitimate global religious phenomenon.
As such both Rastas and Nazarites are in receipt of special protection under both national and international laws and conventions.
However, the visible religious and racial minority communities of Rastas and the less well known Nazarites, have, over the past thirty years, been under a steady and sustained attack from the wider community, as well as the British state mechanisms.
They have been the unfortunate victims of aggressive attacks and "targeting" mainly based on outrageous homosexual bigotry, race, colour and religious hatred.
These attacks go way beyond the affects of institutionalised racism, hate-crimes, or bigotry. These attacks are of a nature, that can only be defined under crimes against humanity and genocide.
Firstly, if we examine the definition of "Minorities" - who are disadvantaged ethnic, national, religious, linguistic or cultural groups, who are smaller in number to the majority population of a society and who, as a result deprived of their ability to maintain and develop themselves. Then the Rasta and Nazarites fulfill the legal criteria for a minority group.
The issue become somewhat more complex, in that, these people, are the remnants of "Israel", which is in Africa.
These facts, as well as their physical visible expression of their culture, (i.e. the obvious being their hair being dressed as Dread-locks), puts them at the centre of the cross-hairs of any homosexual, race, religious or cultural extremist or fanatic who feels threatened by these beliefs.
In other words, they have suffered extreme discrimination on all fronts, not only on their race, but have suffered as a consequence of being the last survivors of the most heinous slave trade in human history. Indeed, they are the visible manifestation and legacy of the Black slave trade process. The Black Holocaust.
