Bob Marley Spoke Truth About Castro

Excerpt from Notes From the Cuban Exile Quarter:

Bob Marley passed away on May 11, 1981 from cancer at the age of 36. He was a master singer-song writer who spread both reggae and his religious belief known as Rastafari around the world.

In his final interview on September 18, 1980 in New York City, while doing shows at Madison Square Garden and preparing to embark on a national tour, Marley was asked about Cuban troops in Ethiopia supporting the now-convicted war criminal Mengistu Haile Mariam:

MARLEY: Well, I did know that this year is the fiftieth year - pass them back to Rasta.

Q: The fiftieth anniversary of the coronation of His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie the First.

MARLEY: Is the Golden Jubilee, that's it. November 2nd. Been 50 years now since Christ government set upon earth, returned to earth. The Russians can't take guns and destroy it you know. Bad man.

Q: The Russians are trying?

MARLEY: Of course them try it in Ethiopia. Mengistu is not a Ethiopian. Mengistu is a Russian.

Q: What do you think about the Cubans there?

MARLEY: Well them a idiot them is Russians Too. Yeah. Them say there is no God. And me, I know that there is a God. Cause I know who God is. And the guys stick me with a gun and say there is no God. I say yes, there is a God. And them fire it! And it miss. And fire it again and it miss you know. And them fire plenty time and it miss because there is a God.

In a previous interview, MARLEY elaborated:

So hear me now! Who overthrow 'im [Selassie]? Who support the group that overthrow His Majesty? The communists--Russia, right? Yeah, mon. Russia overthrow His Majesty--a white mon overthrow him, and he's a black man. And propaganda it out amongst the black people, and it look like is a revolution inside. Just a big foolishness, y'know? Heh, mon, them sabotage...