Tuesday 5 June 2018

Was Bob Marley a racist?

The late Bob Marley sang,



Was he a racist for singing this song?

Was he a racist for wanting his people to unite?

Well, if he was a racist, then I think I'm a racist too for wanting the Malays to unite.

In case some of you don't know who he was, please click on this link;

Bob Marley


The guy was half black half white, by the way.

11 comments:

  1. Annie,

    Betul tuu. Satu pandangan yang baik.

    Bob Marley mengajak Afrika, semua bangsa iaitu orang Arab di utara, golongan suku kaum kulit hitam, Swahili, hutu, Zulu, Niger, dan juga berbagai agama iaitu Islam, Kristian dan lain-lain untuk menolak sifat perkauman. Yang penting adalah sifat kasih sayang antara manusia dengan lagunya "One Love"

    Sama juga di Malaysia, kesemua rakyat, orang melayu, cina, India, Kadazan yang berbagai kaum dan agama mengambil iktibar dan bersatu padu sebagai satu warga negara sama-sama membangunkan negara kita Malaysia.

    Lagu kegemaran Bob Markley, bagi saya, No Woman No Cry.

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    1. Betul tu. Melayu bersatu. Bumiputra bersatu. Cina bersatu (bawah DAP). Semua bersatu. Boleh la Malaysia bersatu padu.

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    2. dulu bn kuat sebab ini la. melayu bersatu dalam umno, cina dalam mca, india dalam mic, kaum lain dalam parti mereka sendiri dan dalam bn masing-masing sepakat, tolak ansur, hormat menghormati..

      tapi lama kelamaan semua tu pudar. takde siapa yang nak "maintain" nilai-nilai murni ni..

      harap-harap bersatu, pkr, dap dan amanah dapat kembalikan kegemilangan sifat positif ni

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  2. I didn't know Bob Marley was half black half white.I thought he was an African American.Barrack Obama is also half black half white but he was hailed as the first American black president.Mariah Carey is also half black abd half white but she looks white.
    I am pure Malay but I look Chinese.May be there is chinese blood somewhere along the line but I consider myself as a Malay 100 percent.
    Prof Kangkung

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  3. //King consents to Tommy Thomas as AG
    PETALING JAYA: The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Muhammad V, has consented to the appointment of Tommy Thomas as the new Attorney-General (AG).//

    Pelanggan2 M'kini yg majotiti dari kalangan bukan Melayu/Islam sedang berkokok di dalam ruangan komentar portal berita tersebut seolah2 meraikan satu kemenangan besar.

    Aku lontarkan soalan ini kepada kamu Melayu/Islam; Apa perasaan kamu terhadap tindakan mereka ini ?

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  4. PKHKC Kangkung is a monkey la dey.

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  5. True; Malaysia could not unite without the Malay get united.Support u Annie.

    Jah Rasta

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  6. I think the Malays are united under one religion, Islam. You’ll see how they react collectively if Islam is threatened.

    It is unrealistic to expect the Malays to have the same political ideology. Malays may not be united under one political party, but that doesn’t mean it a bad thing to Malays.

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  7. Annie,

    At first glance, one might consider Bob Marley to be a racist for calling Africans to unite.

    But what were Africans going to unite against?

    Well, in the context of Marley's time, he was calling Africans to unite against exploitation by the whites, against oppression by the whites, against apartheid, against injustice.

    Fast forward to today and calls for Malays to unite.

    Are Malays in Malaysia being oppressed by another race?

    Are Malays in Malaysia being exploited by another race?

    Are Malays in Malaysia subject to apartheid and treated as second-class citizens in their own country?

    Are Malays in Malaysia being subjected to injustice?

    Why are Malays being asked to unite in Malaysia?

    My view is that Malays in Malaysia are being asked to unite so that they can continue the philosophy of "ketuanan Melayu", where being Melayu is being superior to others.

    Melayu unity aka ketuanan Melayu in Malaysia sounds very much like how Islam in Malaysia is practised - an exclusive club where all others are inferior.

    I am not sure if that is a good portrayal of Islam, let alone Malays.

    Gladiator

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  8. Ever wonder why the african countries are such a basket case even though the orang putih has long left ages ago?

    Africans don't subscribe to the concept of a nation and thus don't have much loyalty to their country. Their loyalty is to their tribe, to the point that it is the duty of the more successful in the tribe to take care of the rest in the tribe especially close family members. Patronage system flourished because of this. I was told this by Nigerians colleagues and a foreigner who had lived in Nigeria for several yrs. I am from the O&G sector so these Nigerians are considered the cream of their society.

    I think Marley is saying to look beyond their ethnicity (tribe) and unite as one african 'race'.

    IMO, in our modern world, it is no longer ethnicity that separates us but the true divide is social class.

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