Interview: Bob Marley on Human Trafficking

by Amanda Kloer · 2009-06-15 07:00:00 UTC
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Each week, I will be bringing you a new interview with a formerly-active activist or abolitionist, that is, someone now deceased.  I'll be talking to the men and women who paved the way for the abolitionists of today and getting their thoughts on the problems and solutions of modern-day slavery.  How do I contact not just the dead, but the famous and dead?  Every good blogger must have her secrets!

This week... Bob Marley

How's the afterlife treating you?

Ey mon der ain't nowhere betta!

For those non-biography readers out there, how about you tell me a little about yourself.

I was a musician, an activist, and a religious leader famous for my Jamaican roots and my unique reggae style of music.  I used my music to share my values of peace, love, freedom and unity with the whole world.  I eventually became a Rastafarian Archbishop.

What do you think is the biggest problem in the modern-day abolitionist movement?

We must first emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, before we can emancipate others from physical slavery.  No one but us can make us be free.

If you were alive, what would you do to fight slavery?

We must imagine freedom, enact freedom and choose to live freedom for ourselves every day.  If we do not see freedom as something real and immdiate in our lives, we will not be able to bring it to others.

Any last thoughts for our readers?

If you know your history,
Then you would know where you coming from,
Then you wouldn't have to ask me,
Who the eck do I think I am.
I'm just a buffalo soldier in the heart of America.

Amanda Kloer is a Change.org Editor and has been a full-time abolitionist in several capacities for seven years. Follow her on Twitter @endhumantraffic
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