INTERVIEWER: “I understand that you were planning to tour Israel at the end of October (’83) What happened with that tour?”
TOSH: “Not me was planning to tour, they were trying to get me to go to Israel to tour or to do a couple shows there but then again my integrity will not take me there, cause what I stand for is equal rights and justice in the highest degree. There are many places I have been that I should not have been but then again that’s how the shitstem go. Jah say you have to get your bread out of desolate places so Israel has close ties with South Africa and Israel in this dispensation of time, is the continuation of apartheid and the racial injustice seen. They are the administrators, maybe the key administrators of racial injustice in South Africa to my people and I could not support that. There are many countries that really do support that still. But then again you still hear there are many places that really support it.”
INTERVIEWER: “Isn’t that ironic that the people that would suffer so much racial genocide 30 years ago would now be involved in the same kind?”
TOSH: “Yeah, but you see there is nothing happening on earth today that is a coincidence, everything was designed thousands of years ago, is only a pity that it is so ugly. And it’s only a pity that your eyes have to see it and your ears have to hear about it. But then again it was something that was designed, seen. Everyman is getting paid according to his work, seen. What’s going on in South Africa is very ugly, very, very, very ugly. Everyday you hear them talk about the Jewish holocaust and how much million blood clot Jews Hitler killed but you never hear them talk about how much bumba clot million people the South African regime kill daily, seen. & not only them, them don’t talk about the bloodclot invasion of the Italian into Ethiopia in the 1930s during the government of Emperor Haile Selassie I and how much bloodclot million people them kill. Them don’t talk about that no time. Them tell you about the Jewish bloodclot holocaust. Every bumbaclot you hear about the Jewish fuckin’ holocaust so what ago happen to we? Seen? And the shitstem I can’t take it no more. That’s why there will be so much disaster and destruction.”
Ancient Ras Peter Tosh, Interview with Doug Wendt, San Francisco 1983
