He had switched from the hard line Nyabinghi Rastafari to the far more all-embracing Twelve Tribes – the former was strictly black, the latter offered a proto-hippie rainbow culture approach – which suggests that no matter its visibility and the attraction of Rasta's counter-cultural symbols – the locks, the spliffs – the core message was universal, about human rights, fairness, dignity, rather than doctrinal or dogmatic. He also, of course, was the global symbol for his religion, Rastafarianism. He was driven to take his message – of the need to struggle against hypocrisy and corruption, to stand up for yourself and combat oppression – to a global audience. What was he trying to tell the world? Most importantly, his views on injustice had evolved beyond exclusively Jamaica and his own black people to include the oppressed of all races all over the world.
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