Triumphant in our celebration of our accomplishment with total freedom from subjugation as our final goal. We as black people continue to move forward in this time with never before seen accomplishments. Similarly, Africans with power sold other Africans to slavery.Ī reference to the massive strides that society has made concerning racism, specifically toward those of African descent. Joseph stays above the unfortunate event of being sold off by his brothers. When Bob talks about being pulled out of the bottomless pit, he may be comparing slavery to the story of Joseph in the Old Testament of the Bible. In addition the pit represents the holding area where slaves were kept on the coast of Africa while they awaited the slave ships representing a state of hopelessness and despair.
As a continent it is the fountain of all human life… hence bottomless endless or timeless. “Bottomless pit” refers to Africa in its immensity and wealth of resources, people and culture. Me - In the Iyaric dialect, "I" is used in place of "me" to keep it in the nominative case and avoid making it an object. In this case, “I” stands not only for the speaker of the song, but for the collective group of African slaves that were abducted into slavery, and thus robbed of their sovereignty, culture, as well as their material possessions and natural resources. Instead of we or us, Rastafarians say I and I.
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