History of Maroons (Part 2)

For Black Philosophy Class

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• maroons
• black
• white
• slave
• master
• jamaica
• history
• people
• tropics
• race
• racism
• bob
• marley
• marcus
• garvey
• rasta

[SFwizardoakland]

your into battling slavery and oppresion but your favorite book on your page is listed as the bible? Makes no sense to me. Even if you find much comfort in god and jesus's teaching the bible is hardly the place to look...this will only confuse you and make you more of a slave. God is freedom. the bible is historical document used to promote war, economics, property, domination of women, slavery and blind obediance.

[pinklima]

@SFwizardoakland I understand what you are saying, and I agree that I do not specifically accept the Canon from the Roman Catholic Church. But I do still feel solace in many of the pages within the Bible.

[milah82]

This vid was good but the narrator's voice is annoying

[pinklima]

lol. its cool...i made up a fake voice. none of my friends recogonized it was mine. i liked the fake voice. but to each his own.

[SFwizardoakland]

also most of what jesus taught goes against what the bible says and what modern tax exempt institutions called churchs teach you. this may sound CRAZY but it is obvious if you can read sentences and think that jesus's teachings are opposed to the churchs doctrine, dogma, etc. Faith = blindly submit, do not think for yourself etc...this is not what jesus taught. Also on the sermon on the mount he said we are all god, there is no monotheistic male diety without a wife running this joint! !

[humblepie6]

@pinklima hahaha its got too much emotion

[overviewthem]

It is a shame that whatever the European called us or addresse us as, our people accepted and embraced wholesomely. The word should be what the people addressed themselves as, and not the word "Maroon" which is used to describe as isolated. Our original names have also disappeared, including some words in our language all because of this inferiority complex nature of accepting or looking up to the European language.

That's why I never accept the word "Patios - (pat-wa)" for our native dialet.

[josephortizgarcia]

Fuck the european culture.

[jahzeal]

@SFwizardoakland ONLY IF what you look for is those things of the world, Discernment is needed with anything in life.

[ImmortalDragon]

*searched using wikipedia*

[ImmortalDragon]

Man the internet is such a wonderful place. I just searched Marcus Garvey (someone mentioned him on a forum), then looked at the bottom under category and saw "National Heroes of Jamaica", which then lead me to "Nanny of the Maroons", and thus leading me here in search of more information on the history of slavery in Jamaica, more specifically the Maroons.

Thanks for the video.. knowledge is power.

[BattleAngel]

@SFwizardoakland Many ancient Africans (Nubians) were Christian and read the Bible long before Europeans came and brought us their version of the Bible and the violence that came along with their distorted perceptions of Christianity. It is historically naive to blame all the problems of man on just one book...

And it doesn't take into account all the centuries of resistance to slavery, war, violence and inequality that the book inspired. Your analysis is very one-sided!

[shifragri]

@pinklima Have you any information about Maroon communities in North America?

[Ajanibakari]

I thought that the Maroons were natives to the americas..?? I kno they were black and could easily be mistaken as an African. they were so successful at fightin the krackas, they knew the terrain better. Of course they intermingled wit slaves after freein them from their bondage. But I was convinced that the maroons were native americans of jamica. Is this so??