I just want to add to what has been said about women during their time of mensturation. I know a very outrageous story of a young Nyahbinghi Ras in Zimbabwe who told his mother that she should not cook for him when she was bleeding. I don't know how she reacted, but I know that in all the African cultures I am acquainted with, Hebraic or otherwise- you don't say something like that to your mother.

And the Empress who said a dread would beat up his woman every time she had her time! I am boiling with rage at the moment. I think we need to have such Rastas isolated. What I do not understand is why the woman stays with a man who has no respect for her. I just don't.

I proposed that we discuss domestic violence in the Rastafari communities in an earlier posting. I propose we discuss it again.