Rastafari Community Video

This week, the picture painted in class and in the book of Rastafari and its followers I feel was over generalized. I feel this even mpre after watching the youtube video. In the book as well as in class (because we are going off of the book), Rastas are seen as dirty, lazy, unskilled, uneducated, and ganja smokers. Rastafari is seen as crazy, rebellious, and dangerous. I think the bigger questions we should be asking are why is Rastafari seen negatively? By whose standards are we judging it by?
The video of the Boboshanti confirms the ideas of Rastas being pro Ethiopia/Africa, Rastafari promotion of Black superiority, and their use of the Bible. We see this through the lion symbol, Ethiopian colors that the Rastas wear and use for almost everything, the signs the have posted (i.e. Biblical scriptures, Black/White, etc.), and through their preparation to return to Africa. These Rastas, as suggested they would be, are not dirty, lazy, or unskilled. Their speech was also very articulate, I understood what they were saying. Lastly, they didn't smoke any ganja in the video. This type of devotion and spirituality is not presented in the book. What makes these Rastas any different from Monks, Nuns, preist, etc. who live in a way that they believe is getting them ready for some higher/better place?
As I stated early, the Rastafari religion is generalized too much. Due to the fact that their was not one specific way to be a Rasta, we can't just look at one group an say that's how all Rastas are.