What a trang Black fuss Lady...Respect.

[Panajar]

&quot;One of the things I realised early is that Jamaica is really a very conservative society. <span style="font-weight: bold">Those days, to be black,</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">have an afro and to wear African clothes</span>, I was really doing all of this stuff and getting a lot of praise for it, but simultaneously, a lot of criticism. At one stage I wish I had kept it. <span style="font-weight: bold">I had letters coming to me that said, why do you have to have an afro? We are embarrassed, we are so </span>embarrassed with you and this afro. Why don't you straighten your hair like everybody else? Why are you wearing those head wraps? I used to wear these fabulous-looking head wraps. So there were people who were uncomfortable with the sight of a young, black woman who combined several things&quot;

WHO WERE THOSE PEOPLE,THAT WAS SO UPSET THAT SHE WEAR AFRO AND
AFRICAN CLOTHES AND WHAT WERE THEY AFRAID OF???. RESPECT <span style="font-weight: bold">EMPRESS BEVERLY ANDERSON.</span>


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[britisha]

Re: What a trang Black fuss Lady...Respect.

Panjar, how yuh duh?

[tsophra]

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<span style="font-style: italic">Beverly Anderson Manley. I wanted a peasant look, a simple dress with a triangular headscarf (Photo of Beverly Manley on her wedding day by sole wedding photographer Astley Chin.) </span>

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[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Panajar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">&quot;One of the things I realised early is that Jamaica is really a very conservative society. <span style="font-weight: bold">Those days, to be black,</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">have an afro and to wear African clothes</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Of course</span>..... but while in Russia she donned fur costing thousands of dollars, while telling Jamaican women to tun dem han mek fashion and use burlap and flour bag to make clothes.
If she had respected Jamaican women she would have spoken out in the years when the policy of the Government that she supported saw women’s really income declining and many were forced into all kinds of unspeakable endeavors just to survive.
She was part of the problem not the solution. Jamaica was not s State in the African Union; Jamaica was an Independent Country free to choose it own direction.