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Glad my posts are giving you a joyful laugh, priest A. A Adofo! But, perhaps you are having a laugh at yourself hmhm.. You treating me with derision, or priding yourself prowess noble behavior in your family goes hand in hand with your penchant for unsubstantiated assumptions as well. You say you fulfill your duties as head of the family by observing Rastafari traditions. Well, your family’s personal life is very personal. If your Rastafari wife is not outraged according to your Bobo Ashanti tradition to dress, speak or whatever else to suit your individuality, how free is she? Are female members in your family pawns as to not having the surety of their decisions for dress style? But, far be from me to judge you to be a primitive abuser running your family your way. Because that would require me to know your real family, and of course, I don’t know your family. That's fair.
If you need to appear a whiner in this message board, you are pathetic. Am I attacking you whenever I can priest? Read my posts carefully. I am not being Machiavellian or contemptuous - anything but being straightforward and honest. Is it a sin? Well, anyway I am not trying to get you or anyone "on my side”. I feel any need to color the truth for the sake of having popularity, because we are discussing REAL here brother. Aren’t we? So, I say Rastafarian sistren have to be respected when they choose to. It is something I never cut out, and I respect those Rastafari Kingmen (rare men?) who are up to this challenge like Ras Marcus, Ayinde and other progresive rasta males on this message board.
I think the most important task for conscious Rastafari families is to help sisters realize their personal individuality, their fashion styles, moods, and philosophies from a position of wisdom of higher spirituality. Whatever their decisions, it’s solely theirs to make, not yours. Every individual choice is unique. You have no moral, social or religious right to define the female members of your family quality of dress to supposedly to protect them. To me, it still shows your thought pattern is steeped in manipulation and control, a belief that as root in a patriarchal religion of yours where the male has a role of leadership position, thus you possess the right to opt for your women. Yes, to me this primitive attitude is synonymous with saying that they are worthless!
Does having a penis mean you must choice the lifestyle for your woman? I am not your wife and I cannot pretend to be humiliated into acquiescence so..Me from a black feminist woman point of view, this is ignorance and arrogance. You treat women like children. YOu judge they have no choosing to their lifestyles and outfits. When things aren't working your way, are the female members in your family still "Empresses" to you? Yes, I am laughing too...lol...lol. But remember, I state my point of view, that doesn’t' mean I "hate" you as a rastafarispeaks user! All of this has nothing to do with any perceived abhorrence I could have for you, period.
B.K
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