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Those who disagree with your lifestyle are not necessarily your enemies. Those who would kill you because they disagree with your lifestyle, they are your enemies. Those who enable those who disagree with your lifesytle to kill you, they are your enemies.

While the gay community was busy crucifying a young Jamaican for lyrics he wrote as an 18-year-old, the National Rifle Association (NRA) was busy making sure that it remained relatively easy for lunatics to obtain assault rifles. Although there was never any incident of any reggae artist or fans influenced by the music being violent toward gays, the gay community waged an all-out war in an attempt to destroy reggae music.

The truth is reggae poses no physical threat to homosexuals. The gay community’s time, money and energy would have been better spent fighting the gun lobbyists in the United States.

After the savage act at the Orlando night club, members of the reggae and dancehall community were quick to condemn the massacre and send condolences to the loved ones of those who lost their lives or were injured, something the NRA has yet to do.

Reggae music continues to be boycotted by the gay community even after reggae artists have agreed to stop recording and performing songs that are or can be deemed homophobic. This weekend’s tragedy should be a wake-up call for all of us to speak more love and sing more love. Words do have a way of manifesting themselves and if we speak or sing hate, those words of hatred could reach the point of manifestation. The truth is, however, reggae artists were already awake. No one in the gay community can name a reggae song that can be considered homophobic in the last 5 years, yet the gay community continues to fight reggae.

Homosexuals should realize that reggae is not their enemy. You cannot continue to blame a 40-year-old man for a song he recorded when he was an 18-year-old boy. The NRA and other gun lobbyists groups are their biggest enemies. The church and the far right are their enemy.

Reggae’s mission was never, is never and will never be to create enemies or teach hatred.

Speak of love
Sad enough without your foes
Speak of love
Sad enough with your woes
We don’t need no trouble – Bob Marley

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