Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Rastafari believe? in Polygamy

Alice Eddie Backer of Brooklyn, New York

Writes in her blog
http://kiskeyacity.blogspot.com/2006/06/six-degrees-of-caribbean-bloggers.html



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Sharon Marley on Rastafari and Polygamy
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, it looks like Generation X women (or maybe just Sharon) in the Marley clan are not too thrilled with some of the gender-related implications of Rastafari
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unhappy about how Rastafarian women are treated by their men....snip...

She is somewhat conservative on the question of polygamy, which is practised by many Rastafarian men.
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"That has been around for many years. I can't change that. My mother didn't fight with any of the mothers of my father's children. But now that my brothers are having children with different women, some of them are not getting along with each other."

Surprise, surprise...

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