Why Is Bob Marley Not A National Hero In Jamaica 🇯🇲?

what do you see is most of uh Africa's problems as far as uniting I mean I see Africa problem is that outside people keep on fatiguing the people you know and them can't really get them things together you know if it's not this superow is that superpower but Africa is only a place part music will your will your home base though always be Jamaica or someday do you would you like to live in be [Applause] [Music] Africa but Mali indeed is a legend I mean the Legacy that he left behind would take years and it would never be erased can you believe that even in his dead the world continued to enjoy his music heart Talent [Music] feel all right let's together feel all right coming from the mland I know Bob Mary loved the M land so dearly to the extent that even the shows that he wanted to do in Africa he didn't want to charge so when I arrived in Jamaica I'm like you know what it's about time to pay that special tribute just to let you know that he is indeed a legend that left so soon Prophet while we stand aside and say it's just a part of it you help [Music] see I mean we all know him to be called Bob but his real name is Robert Nest he was born on the 6th of February 1945 Bob Mali is a global icon Bob Mary is a Tre Blazer of reg music made he theion he the star he made it very [Music] far one of the things that I really appreciate about my trip to Jamaica is the fact that it's really exposed me to who Bob Mari is I mean his story his legacy the impact that he made on Jamaica its culture and the people it's just a part of it you got to come sing with me come sing with me won you to S the arms of freom know it's all I ever [Applause] have Redemption I ever listen I mean when I got to Jamaica I found out Jamaica got seven national heroes Sam sh yeah n0 of The Maroons yeah uh one person missing who's missing and I was like where is Bob Mary I was so heartbroken that why is a legend like this not part of the national heroes or not celebrated as a national hero I know there's a bob Mali Museum and all of that but I think if you arrive the airport the National Heroes you need to see Bob Marley I agree with you completely and I agree with you so much so that I've been the only Member of Parliament to have moved a resolution in Parliament to make him a national hero which I did on April 5th 2022 so if you look online you will see me standing in Parliament moving a motion and giving the reasons why whereas Bob Marley born in the Deep rural area of 9 miles in the Parish of St an is a global icon of peace freedom and love his actions towards humanity and his Summons of world leaders to focus on their policy decision Visions to free people from radical oppression poverty and war with a one drop two drop three drop four a peace and love above my and we say peace and love above once more we say one drop two drop three drop a peace and love above I believe he should be a national hero for our country because he has done so much for so many different people won peace Awards based on 500 million Africans in Africa and helping to liberate so many countries in Africa through his music and standing up as being a resil resilient Freedom Fighter for so many black people around the world and so many Africans around the world the fact that one love is is translated into almost every single language around the world and his Exodus album was basically the album of the century there's so many reasons geopolitically socioculturally socioeconomically why Bob Marley should be made our hero of Jamaica and even 40 years after his death his legacy still lives on the fact that you as a young person who could be my son is talking about bab Marley and the impact that he has made on your life so many generations after should signal to governments and leaders in this country that he he is what the world needs even [Music] today we all know that Jamaica is the home of reg but what you all don't know is trench town is notable for bething razor music artist like Bob Marley I mean that is the most popular name that we all know but not just Bob Marley with significant reg artists like Bob Marley Peter TSH kis Smith B and Aron [Music] Ellis at the of came to [Music] so we are in trench toown yeah and what is so popular and famous or so unique about trench town the first thing that comes to mind when you think about trench town is Bab anywhere around the world you go on this trenchtown rock don't watch that we come from trench Town whichever way it goes it just always comes back to Bob Marley and then when you come down and you start to research the area then you realize that it's not just Bob Marley a lot of the the great from in the early stages came from this particular space this is like a mecha of Music a me of culture this is like where so many things have started and been continued to this day we in 2024 this is this place has easily 60 years of History if not more of people have all impacted Jamaica and the world all right so basically you're in the community of trench toown and before it was called trench Town it was known as Trench oh these houses you're looking at they're all known as Government yards and these are called government yards because they were built by the government back in 1940 woo so these houses were built in 1940 throughout 1949 and before that it was a squatter settlement so most of these squatters they were coming from different parishes through Jamaica and they came to ker looking for jobs and they came and squat here now the original owner for this piece of land is known as Mr Trench po trench and he was an Irish Jamaican man in which Daniel Father William po trench was original Irish man Bob Marley and those guys for the the fact that they were dreadlocks and you know they were singing this regular music that Noah really understood it wasn't a a easy thing for them to come through but this is a place that they would gather and they would do you know what was good for them what they loved which was their music this place this place what is this place called This is the culture yard trenchtown culture yard this is the home of b Marley and many more Legend here in ch this is the government yard that Bob Marley sings about what do you mean the home of Bob Marley well Bob Marley left from n sent 11 years old I said came here to live with his mom okay so he was living in here yeah we used to sit in a government yard in French town so this is the government yard this is the government y trench this is trench to here we got Bob very first M Bob M's first ever vehicle yeah man wo Bob's first ever vehicle very first vehicle this is when used to selling records back in those days you know so is is it a place where it's only Bob that used to stay here or there different people that were living in here many many Legend came out of CH I'm talking about this particular compound right you know we got T that's Bob Mar's Mentor he also want to talk Bob to play a guitar he also want to no woman cry [Music] for so tell us more about this whole place yeah Bob m many more people sleep in this this is called a you know so it's more like a tournament yeah this statue the Statue from from was German and it first concert it was made out of what it was made out of concrete and foam okay yeah so here we got Bob Marley kitchen bedroom kitchen and bedroom yeah man he cooks and sleep there at the same time yeah it used to be a kitchen also this is where people used to cook but Bob and his mentor I tell about Vincent for turn to a bedroom and here it goes rbert leester Marley he was born on February 6th 1945 Bob Mar and he was BN in sent but Bob and his mother to live in chench toown when Bob Marley was 11 years old was 1956 and Bob mom name is Booker when they came here and B was was living on S black that's on Second Street Bob M met Vincent for starting to play a guitar about age of 15 years old Bob Mar's mom got a job to work in she did B but after couple months there Bob came back here in ch to live with his mentor that's Vincent F this used to be his kitchen b m and his mentor turn to a bedroom this is where b sing Tre little birds B said rise up this morning smiling with the Rising Sun Tre little birds Pit by my doorstep singing This is a doorstep yeah man wow and this is where we I want to love you and treat you right I want to love you every day and every night together the girlfriend used to come and visit him and God Inspire yeah God Inspire really Reas why shelter he said we share a shelter a single bed okay there's a single bed Bob that's the single bed Bob m s about so this is a will you say this is the exact room that Bob stayed yeah man Bob sleep in that room sleep [Music] on is real that about this recently I have met this manie would make a fire light L good burning through that night and we will cook car meal par or which I share with you B his Fe was his only car so was beating his job and pushing on to and ask his King I last the first know I'm gone what I'm G and the King said everything is going to be all right everything is going to be all right everything is going to be at what point did bobi left trench to well I ear was around 27 going to 28 years old he left CH move go to the museum that's that's his last residents know the museum is already got rich they start making money so it really not really left children I would say they just give him a better house up top you know but he was back and forth back and forth you see what I'm seeing is super cool man they actually take him into a room that b Mali I mean used to stay his mentor t almost every room and you can see the like what really happened in there and it's super cool to see but because of the protection of information and um in order for you to come in here to see it yourself we not allowed to film in there but the GH boy you know me yeah let me ah nice one man it know it knows me bro you see I can stay in trench now because I got someone here welcome to Jamaica welcome to the home of Robert leesta Marley this is 56 Hope Road where he lived and had a studio before he passed on and it's now the home of the Bob Marley Museum well this is what houses a great part of his life and his legacy all the treasures inside the artifacts represent who he was as a Ruster man as a musician as a father as an international Superstar a lot of it is here so the house actually preserves his [Music] legacy it was set up by his wife and his family after he passed in 1986 and people travel from all over the world to just come and feel the vibe and get a feel of what Bob Marley represented while he was here was it the same house that M was shot in this is the house he was shot in in 1976 at the back in the kitchen he was here preparing to do a a big concert the Smile Jamaica concert and um one night after rehearsals some some gunmen just ran in and shot him you know luckily fortunately he survived and still went on to do the coner about music when it is feel so hit me with mus [Music] his philosophy everything that he represented as a rasman he was he was a revolutionary but he was someone who wanted the world to understand the meaning of love and inity and peace he represented what his Imperial Majesty Emperor H Cassi represented you know in terms of the fact that no one race has that authority to stand Superior over any other race so that's why Bob Marley represented for all of us a philosophy of love a philosophy of Life a philosophy of equal rights and [Music] Justice it's rather unfortunate that cameras are not allowed in the museum but I just want to show you around a little bit these are all the children of Bob Mali and that's Bob Mali himself with the inclusion of hail salassi I think what really adored him and I love the fact that Jamaicans are really celebrating the empire in here and as African being here it feels so good to see that Africans that left Africa Africa never left you know the bracelet everything you love African with all your heart yes I'm African a wow a mage to Africans across the globe Africa Africa does not mean that you were born on the continent Africa means that you Africa was born in you I and I are African people anywhere we are do you know that Jamaicans celebrate Bob Mali even on his birthday which is called the Bob Mal day it it's really exciting to be part of this whole celebration this year in Jamaica no sun will shine in my day today no [Applause] shine come out to won come out to I life and change my [Music] day where is the love to be found come sing with me come sing with me [Music] sings of [Music] Freedom all I [Applause] ever redemp all I [Applause] [Music] ever why is it called the Bali [ __ ] this is where he used to come with Alan Skil cold he used to kick a lot of uh football out here back in the day he spent a lot of time out here yeah what would normally happen back in the that Bob would leave you drive out to Bob M Beach come out here J some football play some football swim exercise along the beach and then we leave here now and go to Kan River we with that's why I'm sing that the song that River to wash my dread yes after River but but before which means the this [ __ ] had had a name before Bali yeah I don't know what the name was before but it got the name because of he it's a place that he used to frequent come s with me come s with [Music] me but Bob Marley has an Act was an activist in terms of Human Rights he was an activist in terms of own destiny he was an activist in being a Vanguard for the treatment of people and better treatment of people and he did it peacefully you know he did it not with violence but he made you think about how to better your lives and I think his lyrics should be taught in universities in a in a in a way that people understand how to move in a direction that brings forth progress but why why do you think he hasn't been made a national um it's because of years of colonial instruction I think on the Jamaican psyche in terms of our own Victorian period of what is morality uh and they can't see past that they can't see the fact that him smoke herb and probably have locks but that is who we are it's a part of our identity the fact that you have Marcus Garvey as a national hero and a lot of rastafar uses Marcus Garvey teachings should tell you that the fact that this man spoke about up you mighty race and a number of things and emancipate yourself from mental slavery those were teachings of of Marcus Gaby he's a national hero why Bob can't be [Music] one I I I think uh bobi was a prophet if you if you listen to some things that he said in those days and it's happening today I'm like and he's from so they're flying in their spaceships you know I feel like he was way ahead because if you check like he was so young like 36 years old when he passed on and look at the things that he was able to come up with I think it's about time you made a lot of money out of your music money I mean what is how much is how much is a lot of money to you yeah that's a good question have have you made say millions of dollars no are you a rich man what do you mean Rich what you mean you have a lot of possessions lot of money in the bank position make you rich I don't I don't have that type of richness my richness is life forever and that is who Bob Marley is and even today I mean today is the global premiere of one love so after visiting trench town today going to Bob Mali Beach I feel like it's about time to end it with a bob m movie and trust me after watching this I feel like now diving into the life of Bal it's crazy like the movie oh yeah have you watched the movie because it was insane I loved it so much one thing that really stands out for me the fact that balii always wanted to go to Africa yeah he really wanted to go to Africa and he he finally made it to Zimbabwe and he spoke so kindly of Africa and he wanted to settle in Africa everything was said in just mov to Africa as part of the movie he said one thing that going back to Africa is not all about the money it's about the people wow that was deep feel like you've learned a lot about you know I feel like I love him even more after the movie you know like today I actually did an entire story about M Mali and watching b beach I was in trench style I I saw where Bob m grew up I saw the first house that M's mom actually stayed in so it's like watching the movie felt like I mean this is what I saw today so it's really cool to see this and listen I'm so glad that I watched this movie today one thing that I really love about Bob Mary songs is the fact that he continued to preach love peace and unity Bob is is the is the mer message of rest Safari that you should go back to Africa yes and that the Earth must rule by Africa one government forward not back forward yeah go forward to Africa not back do you think that will ever happen do you really believe that will happen yeah Africa oh my goodness I love you guys all I ever [Music] satey