Youtube video and Rastas

While watching this video it was as if being listed the things that the book went over, the obvious components being the biblicism, the view of Ethiopia and Africa as the promise land, black as good an white as bad, and dreadlocks. Some new aspects that were introduced however, would be the wearing of the turbins, the Bobo, and the idea of centralization. 

The Bobo is a concept already mentioned in the book on Rastafari, just presented in a different way. It is a term used to describe the children of Africa, whom Rastas view themselves as being, which is the reason, as is the case in this movie, that the return back to Africa is mentioned. I found it interesting when the women mentioned that way was opened for them, because I remember in the book the mention of Hailie Selassie having set aside a piece of land for blacks in the west who supported him against the Italian invasion and were interested in migrating to Ethiopia...I wonder if that land is still open? probably not, just a thought.

How the turbin represented a crown was interesting to me, as if the Rastas viewed themselves as nobility, being the chosen people of God (Hailie Selassie) 

Most of the information in this short video seemed to go along with what is written in our book, excluding the idea mentioned near the end, when the man mentions that the goal of Rastafarians is centralization. The book speaks of Rastafari as the exception to the institutionalization of charismatic movements, saying that it doesn't need that aspect because it has become a way of life integrated with society, and here this man is saying that one of the points of Rastafari is to centralize the movement. I'm not trying to say that either view is right, just wondering if the overall perception of Rastafari being well off being decentralized has changed among Rastas.

I liked the movie, and it showed imagery which I wouldn't have immediately have associated with Rastafari, but that isn't saying much since I never really was acquainted with it before.