I'm from the Caribbean and have always known that his father was white. This was never a secret. Bob always acknowledged that publicly.

Doesnt matter what race his father was, He had a brilliant Musician for a son ,who will never be forgotten RIP Bob .

@theethnicist5678

11 ай бұрын

It does MATTER!! Although Bob Marley himself was talented, the fact still remains that WE AREN'T SUPPOSED TO MIX WITH THOSE UNNATURAL PINK ORGANISMS HASATAN'S HYBRID BEASTS OFFSPRING!!! There are those who can't help whom bring us N2 ALL OF THIS MESS

@theethnicist5678

11 ай бұрын

2) .... IT MATTERS BECAUSE HIS FATHER WAS A KAUKKA RAPIST. WHO TOOK ADVANTAGE A 19 YR OLD INNOCENT BROWN SKIN GIRL!!!

Bob had his fathers facial features, and his mothers spirituality. Two good mixes combined to produce the legend Bob Marley. R.I.P. Both of you, you are both together again.

@ronmir7091

2 жыл бұрын

TBH i don't think he looks anything like his father lol

@OmoAzojuano

2 жыл бұрын

@@ronmir7091 he really does, and his uncle too.

@theethnicist5678

11 ай бұрын

YOU SOUND DUMB AF!! IT MATTERS BECAUSE HIS FATHER WAS A KAUKKA RAPIST. WHO TOOK ADVANTAGE A 19 YR OLD INNOCENT BROWN SKIN GIRL!!!

@lilakscy

5 ай бұрын

@@OmoAzojuanoignore him just hates the fact that bobs dad was white, close minded racist.

Looks just like his dad.

@gladyssherpa4105

4 жыл бұрын

Yes nose eyes n nose

@redfirebonus9408

3 жыл бұрын

Gladys Sherpa he’s got his mother’s lips

Yes, he was a nice-looking man, and one can see the resemblance between Bob Marley and his father, Norval.

god, he looks so much like his dad! Eyes, nose, expression.

never ask anyone to deny their mother nor their father. You are what you are....Bob was a wonderful human and his mixed race was a gift that unites us even today....he spoke of love people, don't you get it?

Wow, Bob looked a lot like his father!

Bob looks like his father sad he was never there for him but Jah made the way for bob 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

Made me cry....we all feel like Motherless Children sometimes.....

Respect to Bob. He couldn't deny what he was: half black and half white. It's easy. It's no big deal. The man did something constructive and legendary with his music to try and unite people and to spread the message of Rastafari. The man spoke the truth and nearly died for it. Everything for a reason eh? The mix up blood from his parents. Then he comes into the world for a purpose and makes a difference. He now lives on forever through his music and the message it conveys. You see how he lifted up Manley and Seaga's hands in the air and got them to shake hands at the one love peace concert? Now that is a very big deal. Love and respect to Bob. Thanks for making me proud to be black. You are a brother Bob. You come black in your mentality and actions, even though you mix up with white and black as a Half Caste, because your heart was with wanting to spend more time doing tours and wanting to spend more time in Africa. Big up Bob. Rest in peace.

What a good lookin' father that great man had! I wonder if he was good at singing too?.. Bob definitely got some of his fathers' good looks, and his love for having many women..

@theethnicist5678

11 ай бұрын

Ugh, that racist RAPIST!!!

At the end of the day the colour of a mans skin means nothing its whats inside that really counts. And Bob marley was as good as they come. RIP

Never knew HIS father was white and His mother black color don't matter we are who we are that's HOW GOD MADE US AMEN THANK GOS FOR BOB MARLEY SPREADING THE POSITIVE VIBES OF UNITY AND PEACE

Thank you so much,I always wanted to see a picture of his dad. He made many handsome grandchildren. The thing that I love the most about Bob, is that he made his own name. He did not use the excuse that his father wasnt around and turn to the streets,he is indeed a wonderful example.

For the record, Bob Marley NEVER rejected his father nor his background. That's the beauty of HIM.

That was such a profound statement that Bob made about himself. In one sentence he explains so much of what people are arguing/debating here. Hes not denying his White or black side. Hes just saying hes a MAN of God by being created of Man and woman which just happened to be Black and White. Much love to Bob. RIP

I cry all the time I mist my MOMMY and grumpy Papa

"Until the colour of a man's skin Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes Me say war" -Robert Nesta Marley We haven't gotten to this day yet my love! R.I.P.

@benmacdui9328

2 жыл бұрын

Those are actually the words of dictator Haile Selassie , who , ironically preferred the company of white European aristocrats to that of his fellow Africans.

@HARLOWETV

2 жыл бұрын

@@benmacdui9328 Well regardless who said it, we are still here. And still a tremendous number of black people prefer the company of the European Colonizers! Black people are some of the best at promoting white supremacy, so no surprise there.

BOB was LOVE, within himself and out side of himself he brought the whole world together. LOVE

That was a wonderful reply, BaddRude, to see someone explain, what others must misconstrue as hatred, in the way you did is enlightening. you truly have a loving soul. This is very nice to see. Thank you, One love and Peace :O)

BOB MARLEY IS A MIXTURE OF LOOKS OF HIS FATHER AND MOTHER,BUT AS HE SAY,ITS WHAT HE BELIEVES WHO HE COMES FROM CREAAA TION AND HE IS GODS CREATION,A LEGEND A GENIOUS,SPREADING PEACE LOVE AND TRUTH

He looks like his father

@scribble36

8 жыл бұрын

+christinamilian91 A real dead ringer!

@ariesbaby647

8 жыл бұрын

yes indeed

He's music was/is powerful that touches alot people all over the world as Tupac, John Lennon did. He's great poetry/lyrics is uplifting and captures the imagination and makes people look within themselves. Alas be the change you want to be in the word...love is key. Peace.

This song "feel like a motherless child" has send my thoughts into the possible thoughts of Bob as well. Many of us goes true our transformation and thus becomes a different person,some may concluded that we've outgrown our way of thinking & that's the transition that shift our foundation. A personal foundation of a person is their mental & spiritual likeness & understanding of such likeness."Where's my mother gone,is she gone to the promise land or to a world of sin",has shown a spiritual Bob.

thank you for the wonderful description for this video!

have you really listened to Bob's message? if you are still focusing on skin color then you will never know. who feels it knows it, and the feeling is LOVE.

IT DOESNT MATTER WHO OR WAT IM JUST GLAD HE WAS BORN AND GAVE IS MUSIC TO US ALL RIP MARLEY

Right now Bob is with his dad in heaven :)

@burrellangell

8 жыл бұрын

r u crazy he did not like white people if you listen to the words of his music you understand it

@TheBeachAndTheNelson

8 жыл бұрын

+burrellangell Dude -_- no he didn't and you know that .

@burrellangell

8 жыл бұрын

ok so he's in heaven happy with the man that had not a thing to do with him or his mother,mm ok i guess whatever u people want to believe

@terraconensis2317

7 жыл бұрын

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. Job 14:12

@kimoraslayed4072

7 жыл бұрын

burrellangell he didn't hate white people but he was upset with his father growing up

He is British ! I can't remember if the Father helped at all. Music takes it's own course. RIP Bob Marley

Thank, you for video i loves the song.

This uploader has only one video and over half of million views... :D Bravo dude...

@AnkhGirl

3 жыл бұрын

Quality over quantity.

@TheRBK21283

3 жыл бұрын

@@AnkhGirl it's been 8 fuckin years lol, I feel old 🤣🤣

two words ONE LOVE god bless you Bob!!!

RIP bob Marley the hate is gone...

he was a scottish man I believe, and bob cited the honourable Dr Martin Luther King, as usual he did so with conviction, passion and belief. long will his wisdom live on

thank you bob marley's great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandparents cause without them we wouldve had gotten to meet Bob Marley and his parents was a good example of what life would be like without racism cause together both white and black made an awesome child that changed the world.

Hell yea no racism i love black woman r.I.p.Bob

no he wasn't a slave master..slavery was abolished over a century prior to Bob's birth. He was a british marine officer

It's cool to know famous mixed people's parents, I'm reading a book about Marely it features pictures of his white and black cousins united in peace, seeing no color...just family

one love, one human race let us all live in peace, we are all people under the same sun i love the human race

I was not born when Robert nesta marley pass away in Germany but knew his dad was welsh when I was about 15 on bbc doc years ago

This is probably the best comment I've ever seen on youtube.

IM not surprised.. with the things that where goin on In those times Due to "slavery" but he was truly blessed to be a child of the sun. "Melanin" peace

@matty6848

3 жыл бұрын

Slavery was abolished long time before Bob Marley was born. His dad was a marine officer in the Royal Navy and stationed in Jamaica with the Navy. That’s how he met Bob Marley’s Mother.

wooow Damian looks so much like him.. those eyebrows and lips!

0:43 looks just like Damian Marley

sad he probably never knew how great his son was

Give thanks to bob marley mom for giving birth to him in such circumstances.

GOOD AND BAD IN EVERYBODY.LIVE TILL YOU DIE...TRUTH BE ETERNAL

Rastafari no partial. Blessed Love for all of life.

@GeneralLocooo

4 жыл бұрын

Lion Entity Are you still alive?

Bobs father married bobs mother

@Jamerican28

9 жыл бұрын

shea latchman Truth

Sublime!!

Bob and his father have the same eyes. :)) Thanks for sharing!

That's what happens when we are disobedient. We suffer, so do our children.

Thanks for the book recommendations. I never knew that Bob Marley's mother wrote about her life and that of her son. Whatever faults, Norval Marley may have had, at least he paid some money to the mother and child. That is more than many men do nowadays. Furthermore, without Norval and Cedella, there would have been no Bob Marley, and there would have been none of his music either.

Bob Marley's mother was black jamaican named Cedella Booker born in 1927,and his father was white Jamaican (with english roots)named Norval Marley born in 1895. Back then black people and white people according to what history says shouldn't be together so when Bob Warley was born in 1945 his father left him and went to liverpool in england if i'm not mistaken.

Once race, human race. One Love.....

ONE LOVE! Never forget that.tttttt

Bob Marley -(redemption song).......''Old pirates, yes, they rob I Sold I to the merchant ships Minutes after they took I From the bottomless pit, But my hand was made strong By the hand of the almighty We forward in this generation Triumphantly.....................''How long shall they kill our prophets While we stand aside and look? Ooh Some say it's just a part of it We've got to fullfil the book''....

Yes, Bob was half white half black. The perfect symbol of unity. ..

It's awesome Bob Marley is half white, I always thought he looked like a white man with dark skin, cool to know we both have England ancestry.

him white and black from a little island who grew up a sufferer never lost touch with the people gave money created jobs fed people daily he was a true revolutionist in every aspect .

i read that he was a captain in the royal marines

yeah...he was an English army captain who abandoned him at birth and Bob was raised by his African mother and grandfather...

@depatman I surely understand where yeh come from. Meh Dads mum is jamaican straight yaad woman and she married meh granddad who is scottish.My dad even though born in Manchester, UK only identifies himself as black jamaican because in our neighbourhood we had more Jamaican families and relatives around us...But it's all love...

one love brother

IDENTIC voice..... 0:45 🥺😨😨😨

even the word race is misleading,,,, in reality there is no race or competition here. thank you Rasta, peace brothers and sisters....

They have similar facial structure, eyes and nose. I can definitely see the resemblance, thank you for sharing unloader.

Bob's father Norval Marley born in East Sussex, was a construction engineer. He joined the British army during WWI but did not go to the front because of incontintence of urine and non attributed rheumatism. He was 1.65m tall weight 56 kg. Norval's family were Jewish refuges from Syria. Bob sang about his father's family in the song Cornerstone. Probalbly they owned a facory but Bob did not get money from them because they did not see him as a family member. (Neurotic Captain/The Daily Star)

@Jamerican28

9 жыл бұрын

wallis adriaan His father actually did financially support both Bob and his mother but he was fairly old compared to Bob's mother and passed when Bob was around 10. Although he supported the two of them while he was alive he was not around much because like Bob he was somewhat of a wanderer and it is said he had many young women throughout the island. It is a common misconception that Bob's father abandoned Bob and his mother. He simply died while Bob was very young and was not around much to form much of a relationship when he was alive.

@idris699

9 жыл бұрын

Jamerican28

I'm enjoying the music in the background particularly Bunny's melodious voice.

"until that day, a man will not be judged by the color of his skin or his eyes."Haile Selassie I.greetings all i have been following the conversations about this video. it is in our differences that we find one srength will we keep urguing on the basis of shallow reasoning as our different traits. my brothers and sisters of all the corners we should overcome our biased ethnocentric world view by respecting each other and seek guidance that liberates us from the constraints of our weaknesses

:) this seems like a really touchy subject so write anything and not have it ridiculed, lolz Jah Bless

ONE

Hello people, there is a book which was originaly published in 1996 called, Bob Marley: An Intimate Portraite by His Mother (Cedella Booker) It contains those very same photographs and alo a picture of Bob's half sister. The main thing is, the book will end all of the unbelieving negativity, because this is Bob's mother explaining her side of the book. In my personal opinion, i believe in Bob's mother's story. All i can say is, just buy the book, read it, then you can make an opinion. HAPPY 71ST BOB! Selah!

@countrobbie3712

8 жыл бұрын

+Count Robbie The author of the book is - Anthony C Winkler

@msrubie11

8 жыл бұрын

+Count Robbie I believe Bob and other people in his family. He sister, bob's aunt and others. Bob mother seem to be speaking in fantasy. She was a 16 year old girl. Now do we think a 60 year old white overseer fell in love and married her and it was all good. More than likely it was not consensual. This man was a rapist, the same as many young black women was raped or forced by white slavers or white men in that day. Bob describe it this way in an interview, "It was some slave shit, my mother African, (Black and my father white). I only saw him once". He never did nothing for him or the sister, whom he did not even know he had. This man was never a Naval Captain but a Private in the Army and a low level one at that. There is no marriage license anywhere of the her being married to Bob's father. This is 1950's Jamaica and we know better than that. This man supposedly sent for Bob when he was 5, he arrived on a bus and was pick up by his father and given to an old woman. He was seen running in the streets of Kingston. A friend told his mother. His mother came for him months later and found him in the streets. The father had given him away as not to have his family disown him because they heard he had a black baby. He wanted him to disappear. You need to read the truth because no one else is telling the fantasy she is telling including Bob. No disrespect .

@countrobbie3712

8 жыл бұрын

Well Bob's mother is dead. They say the dead can't lie. Of course Cedella's father was angry at the time of hearing that his daughter got pregnant, that's why, in order to make things good with Cedella's father, Norval married Cedella. How did you aquire the information you mentioned? Like i said, get the book, read it, then make an opinion. I'm only going by what i've read. I don't think as you said that Bob's mother is a fantacist or a lier, because Bob never trusted no one except his mother. So with you labeling Bob's mother as someone speaking in fantasy, that mean that all mothers must be in a world of fantasy. All i know is that mother's know best. I don't think your right, and maybe i'm not right either. I think we should just let sleeping dogs lie. My guess is, if Bob hadn't come into the world the way he had, maybe we wouldn't have a Bob Marley. I'm a firm believer that everything happens for a reson. I respect your opinion, i hope you respect mine! Regards!

@msrubie11

8 жыл бұрын

Count Robbie I think you should look at what came out of Bob Marley's own mouth. That is what he said. I have read every Book on Bob Marley. The only one I would count on is the one Rita wrote. Other books do conflict Bob relationship with his mother, she was gone a lot. Some of those books are not telling the true story. Her sister is on film and her story is in conflict with hers. Esther Anderson is on film saying Bob's speaking of his father was not nice. Don Taylor talks of Bob telling stories of his relationship with his mom as not being great all the time. If you read that book you would know what he said. Rita also allude to things that were not so great. That have nothing to do with his love for his mother. She was 16 a black girl on a plantation where a over 60 year old overseer got her pregnant, are we to wondered what happen. This was not a love story. We not only have Bob own words but we have only to use our common sense of slave history and the aftermath of continued exploitation and oppression. Jamaica was steeped in poverty, slavery and caste system from slavery and after. This man gave not a damn for this young girl of 16 who knew nothing of life. He got babies all over the areas he supervised according to many accounts. If Bob had not come into the world that way the Messiah would have brought him in in another way. He chose this way. Bob being part white has little to do with his being a Messenger for his people. There has been plenty of Black and half Black Messengers. Bob indemnified with everything that was Black and African in his music and his words. He never hid his thoughts to satisfy anyone. Bob's white family did not acknowledge him, told his to get out according to Rita and never acknowledge him while he was on Earth. Now his family do not have a relationship with the white Marley's because they don't want one.

@countrobbie3712

8 жыл бұрын

HI, thank you for taking the time explaining what you wrote. I have a better understanding now. You know what they say though, you can't judge a book by it's cover! Thanks agaie!

just give tanks for Marley has born and forget the color of is skin.. rastafi its not about that..so just have love peace and unity among all the world!!!

He was from Liverpool and came over to Jamaica with the navy

u got that right..true & correct..

@jaiallen786 Great comment, you put tears in my eyes, thanks. Blessed.

your a good man making him

Everyone that feels that what ever bobs parents were should be a issue dont understand the message Bob was trying to send.

@OfficialRilo wow, what you just said i didn't know could be summed up in words, thank you.

Yes, Bob was both white and black. Perfect symbol of unity for all of mankind.

@TheUndertakerSaysRIP THANK YOU. So many people don't even get that, I'm only Sixteen years old and I get that! Peace&Love, man, Peace&Love.

@toperamen8 no no no no, he supported him economically, he couldn't see him often because he was a plantation manager in Jamaica and that required him to be across town all the time...

I really don't care what your views are. I will still enjoy Bobs music. No matter what vile "afrocentric" hatred you spew out.

@72KLEW He never changed his perspective. He was always a person of color and was always subjected to the things that people of color in a white conquered land are subjected to. Just because a person doesn't always talk about the issues we face doesn't mean we're unaware. Usually when I hear people talk about not caring about race it means someone is not willing to look at issues related to white supremacy, racism, prejudices etc. Racism can be very obvious, but usually it is subtle

@jack3finger It's amazing how our color can be both a mental block as well as a catalyst for greatness

Definately Resemblance in the Eyes

Marley also has a half black/white sister as well,her mother also black,she speaks briefly in the documentary about him along with his white brother

@EnkiMelekTaus Wow, so loquacious!

I guess nobody read my original post: a quote by Bob when he was specifically asked about his father/mother.

@davidlee28540 I have done a great deal of research on this topic. Where are you getting your information? I have looked for information that would coincide your theory but have not found it.

we are all Jah people. God does not disciriminate Neither should you.

amen

His dad was white and he did love Bobs Mom they had a love affair for a while before she got pregnant with Bob. But his Dad's family did not want him to marry a Black woman .So he gave into his family and only saw Bob a few times .His Dad lost out on a great son anyone could of asked for .

Who sings this version? Thanks Michael

wow, someone said that whites are just trying to identify with bob marley because of his music and popularity etc thats why whites are saying his father was black. marley's music and the whalers for that matter was international, it belonged to EVERYONE that was working class.

yes it is! sad... ...but true...

White or Black Rasist or Not Negative or Positive You are still my sibling, We are siblings!

I'm Jamaican an my great great grandfather was white

@JV-dj6mo

4 жыл бұрын

Wauney you’d be surprised. I feel like a lot of Jamaicans have relatives from different races. Here in the UK anyway, a lot of white men have Jamaican partners (including myself)