selassie

There's a distance runner Haile Gebrselassie [1], and a soccer player Theodor Gebre Selassie [2], and others with no obvious connection to Haile Selassie.

Rastafarianism is named after Ras-Tafari, one of the epithets of the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie whom Rastafarians revere.

Haile Selassie was a better bet, but alas, not enough likes [like this post won't get many, wdic].

Haile Selassie means 'Power of the trinity' in Ethiopic.

But of course US-backed emperor Selassie had nothing to do with the disastrous economy despite ruling as an absolute monarch for 60 years.

Although there's indeed a lot of roots reggae talking about Selassie and religion, there's also a huge lot of reggae that's not about that.

It includes an interview with the assassin of Tsar Nicholas II and a dinner conversation with Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I.

It is also interesting to note that a successor dynasty of which Haile Selassie was the last emperor, claimed descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.

When I lived in Ethiopia (Haile Selassie was still emperor so it's been a while) there were many nights of the year where the starlight was bright enough you could walk around without a flashlight.

Haile Selassie is also quite commonly regarded as having been Black despite not looking like "stereotypically black".

There's a song in my playlist where they play a recording of someone calling a hotel and asking them to page "Haile Selassie".

Edit: HN 2020, ideals of Haile Selassie are rejected in the name of “tolerance” I guess?

It has an opportunity that no other region has anywhere in the world, so if Oakland can’t do it, no one else can,” Selassie said.

Is Haile-Selassie a common last name or has he anything to do with the other Haile Selassie?

According to Haile-Selassie, Bereino had tried for years to get himself hired on Haile-Selassie’s team.

He sometimes claimed that fossils emerged from eroded rock; when Haile-Selassie had visited in the past, he hadn’t see any.