It's funny. A bunch of pot-smoking blacks wanted to go back to Ethiopia, because they thought a deposed dictator was prophesied in the bible. I can't imagine how the religion began in the first place.
It'd have been forgotten by now if it didn't inspire some famous Bob Marley songs.
>"I mean it, when I analyze the stench -
>To me it makes a lot of sense:
>How the Dreadlock Rasta was the Buffalo Soldier,
>And he was taken from Africa, brought to America,
>Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival.
Said he was a Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta -
Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America.
>If you know your history,
>Then you would know where you coming from,
>Then you wouldn't have to ask me,
>Who the 'eck do I think I am."