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:What do you mean whom am I to know? Not quite sure why you feel the need to be aggressive but please dont. Most Americans who know their early 20th Century non-American history may not be most Americans while there is a strong Rastafari presence in the US and thanks to reggae music his name is being praised on the radio, etc, every day, [[User:SqueakBox|SqueakBox]] 11:48, 19 March 2007 (EDT) | :What do you mean whom am I to know? Not quite sure why you feel the need to be aggressive but please dont. Most Americans who know their early 20th Century non-American history may not be most Americans while there is a strong Rastafari presence in the US and thanks to reggae music his name is being praised on the radio, etc, every day, [[User:SqueakBox|SqueakBox]] 11:48, 19 March 2007 (EDT) | ||
| − | ::there is no reason whatsoever to disregard the events that surrounded the Selassie administration, especially considering the Italo-Abyssinian war was such an ominous portent of things to come 2 years later, and | + | ::there is no reason whatsoever to disregard the events that surrounded the Selassie administration, especially considering the Italo-Abyssinian war was such an ominous portent of things to come 2 years later, and the profundity of what Selassie said to the League of Nations. vactually I personally as a fan of history am so baffled and stymied as to why there is no mention of anthing other than rastafarianism and that some people considered him divine that I may actually go compile some legit sources and do the updating myself... |
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It strikes me that as a Christian wiki[pedia Selassie's alleged diuvinity is more notable than his having been Emperor of Ethiopia, but good to add about the Marxist overthrow, SqueakBox 20:05, 16 March 2007 (EDT)
I disagree - to most Ethiopians, Rastafari is irrelevant.
We are American centred, not Ethiopian centred and to most Americans who know of him Selassie is the Rastafari God, SqueakBox 20:39, 18 March 2007 (EDT)
Again - i disagree - who are you to say what most americans know or believe about a particular figure? Selassie was a crucial figure in Ethiopian politics and I would argue that most Americans who know their history would know Selassie from his speech to the League of Nations in 1935 condemning Italy's invasion of Ethiopia.
- What do you mean whom am I to know? Not quite sure why you feel the need to be aggressive but please dont. Most Americans who know their early 20th Century non-American history may not be most Americans while there is a strong Rastafari presence in the US and thanks to reggae music his name is being praised on the radio, etc, every day, SqueakBox 11:48, 19 March 2007 (EDT)
- there is no reason whatsoever to disregard the events that surrounded the Selassie administration, especially considering the Italo-Abyssinian war was such an ominous portent of things to come 2 years later, and the profundity of what Selassie said to the League of Nations. vactually I personally as a fan of history am so baffled and stymied as to why there is no mention of anthing other than rastafarianism and that some people considered him divine that I may actually go compile some legit sources and do the updating myself...
