Soh a real Dread finally gets elected:

[Tuff Gong]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Rastafarian councillor promises to do his best</span>


Cyril Martin, new councillor of the New Market Division ( Photo: Gregory Bennett)

[RichD]

Re: Soh a real Dread finally gets elected:

so this guy is a poser?

[jah_yout]

Re: Soh a real Dread finally gets elected:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">so this guy is a poser?

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actually the caption was wrong....

this guy is the first Dread....

the first post is the first Rastafari....

a joke still...i do not know if the bredda inna the dark glasses is a rastafari or just wears a dreadlock hairstyle...

kind of like councilman joumani williams from brooklyn...


in any case it is good to see jamaica finally moving forward after a long history of anti-dread &amp; anti-ras discrimination

[Tuff Gong]

Re: Soh a real Dread finally gets elected:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">so this guy is a poser?

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<span style="font-size: 20pt">Fake!</span>

[RichD]

Re: Soh a real Dread finally gets elected:

he claims to follow the faith not just wear dreadlocks

[Tuff Gong]

Re: Soh a real Dread finally gets elected:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">he claims to follow the faith not just wear dreadlocks </div></div>
Him seh im is a Rastafarian (which means he did not even have to have locks).
UIf he had said he was a Deadlocks (weave at that) I could have overstood!

[mountaingal]

Re: Soh a real Dread finally gets elected:

st bess to di werrrrrlllll!!! first we elected Miss Pryce. Now this. A so we do it - inclusive, tolerant

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Rastafarian councillor promises to do his best</span>


Cyril Martin, new councillor of the New Market Division ( Photo: Gregory Bennett)
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[Tuff Gong]

Re: Soh a real Dread finally gets elected:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">st bess to di werrrrrlllll!!! first we elected Miss Pryce. Now this. A so we do it - inclusive, tolerant </div></div>

I wouldn't go that far!

[mountaingal]

Re: Soh a real Dread finally gets elected:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">st bess to di werrrrrlllll!!! first we elected Miss Pryce. Now this. A so we do it - inclusive, tolerant </div></div>

I wouldn't go that far! </div></div>

tell u a story, TG - in the late 90s when i was back in JA working, i was taking a taxi from mandeville to santa cruz. the topic of conversation in the car was Trinidad's intention to hang a bunch of people one time. and one of my co-passengers questioned why the Tdad government was doing that, as the bible clearly stated that this kind of judgment belonged to God. he thought the hanging was a wicked act.

i rejoiced in my heart at this example of humanity from a fellow Jamaican, moreover that it was expressed by a bessian. it was so unusual for me to hear, because my job was in Kingston and almost every day i heard opinions that death was an acceptable response for any perceived wrong. from then i've been convinced that bessians operated by a more forgiving moral code, and i havent seen anything else really to make me change that opinion.

[Tuff Gong]

Re: Soh a real Dread finally gets elected:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">tell u a story, TG - in the late 90s when i was back in JA working, i was taking a taxi from mandeville to santa cruz. the topic of conversation in the car was Trinidad's intention to hang a bunch of people one time. and one of my co-passengers questioned why the Tdad government was doing that, as the bible clearly stated that this kind of judgment belonged to God. he thought the hanging was a wicked act.

i rejoiced in my heart at this example of humanity from a fellow Jamaican, moreover that it was expressed by a bessian. it was so unusual for me to hear, because my job was in Kingston and almost every day i heard opinions that death was an acceptable response for any perceived wrong. from then i've been convinced that bessians operated by a more forgiving moral code, and i havent seen anything else really to make me change that opinion. </div></div>

Let's say they do, but that is only part of the Rock.
More over a lot have changed for the worse since then.
It is not they will not elect a gay person (because political-sentiments trumps everything), but the lifestyle outside of that box will be widely reviled in the open society.
Worse since the whole culture seems to have shifted for the worst since late 90s.
The voices you hear most is not of tolerance but of rabid hostility to anything not outside of what is considered normal.