Iziz!

I thank you for bringing up this issue and I agree with the points made by Ayinde and Jah Christ. Thanks Baba Marcus too for the wisdom. I have to say that even though I am considered chocolate brown there are those who are darker than me and wear no dreads no headscarf and are not Rasta. I am appalled at how these folks often women treat me sometimes. When I am outside I am most affraid of them and their baldhead ways! I appreciate the way that babywrong has mistreated them but as a social scientist I feel that the 1.5 shade of difference has been eliminated due to my lifestyle choice. However, this does not apply to white or mixed race Rastas who still enjoy color priviledges within the trod. Unfortunately, too Ayinde is correct about the double sidedness of this problem. Some in fact almost all of the dark skin Rastas that I know prefer to socialize with the ones who are mixed race or white! They defend the right of those ones to integrate within our organizations and so on. I feel that because of this baldhead colonized mentality they have been given certain priviledges and crumbs from the massah's tables. These crumbs have been used to showcase their prowess that they often use to downpress the brindle ones.

This is a very sad situation and I hope and pray that the conference on Rasta women to be held in Miami in March addresess it in some way.

Guidance.