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Reggae singer Keznamdi this week released the following visual for the song “Justice” ft. Errol Edwards.
The video for “Justice” is a chilling reminder of the discrimination, oppression, brutal violence (including murder) that members of the Rastafarian community have faced, and still face, in Jamaica and the Caribbean. The video references one particularly egregious state-sponsored act of terrorism perpetrated by the then Jamaican government led by Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante: the 1963 Coral Gardens Massacre.
Keznamdi deftly delivers a sure to be classic recording which is enhanced by the haunting images of the historical repression Rastas have suffered and survived through ever since the days of Leonard Howell.
On Keznamdi’s YouTube channel, the following is said about this song and the video for “Justice”:
“For Rastafarians, other indigenous or racial groups that have suffered oppression, and those with a social conscience, the chilling cry of ‘Justice’ on the ‘Bloodline’ album by Jamaica’s Reggae artist Keznamdi and the stark accompanying 6 minute film, is likely to have the effect of raising hairs, reverberating graphic flashbacks or resonating truths that most would agree need to be re-told as part of the re-awakened social justice movements across the world.”
