Those Crazy Baldheads...

Who are the bald-heads Bob Marley was talking about? My fiance and I had this conversation in the car while listening to "Crazy Baldheads", and started the discussion.

I feel like the "baldheads" are the corporate, capitalistic men and women that try to conform everyone to a materialistic, self-serving lifestyle. The people that think that just because you don't put on a suit and work 40 hours a week in a cubicle you aren't smart, successful, worthy.

"I'n'I build a cabin;
I'n'I plant the corn;
Didn't my people before me
Slave for this country?
Now you look me with that scorn,
Then you eat up all my corn"

"Here comes the conman
Coming with his con plan.
We won't take no bribe;
We've got to stay alive."



Anyone care to enlighten me? I love Bob Marley, not just for his music, but because his words have so much meaning. I like to understand them to the best of my ability.

 

The reson the rastafarians have dreds is to seperate themselfes from the other religeons such as christianity that grooming ones hair is common

 

What are you talking about 60shippy, did you even read the question?

I too agree that it is the people who as you said are "corporate, capitalistic men and women that try to conform everyone to a materialistic, self-serving lifestyle", I don't think I could have put it better infact!

 

"Baldheads" is a derogatory term for people who cut and comb their hair.
60'sHippie is right.
People who cut and comb their hair are the same people who conform to societies norms and expect others to as well.
Rastas wear their hair in dreads partly in obediance to the Bible which says no scissors or comb, and partly to voluntarily seperate themselves from conformists and mainstream society making it almost impossible to be anything but self-sufficient.
In Jamaica it is impossible for a Rasta to work for anyone but himself, they will not get hired otherwise. Rasta children will not be accepted in school higher than primary education. They have to trim for high school. Jamaica is hardly a Rasta country, it is very predominately Christian with more churches per square mile than any other country in the world.
Wearing dreadlocks is a statement saying "We do not need to be a part of the Babylon Shit-stem, keep your jobs and your education and we will be stronger than ever".

 

It just goes to show "Man looks on the outside. God looks upon the heart"

 

Great replies. Thanks so much!

 

seems you are forgetting that Rastafari stems from christianity, alot of those churches that cover jamaica were endorsed by HIM Haile Silasie on his trip there, when he introduced the Eathiopian Orthodox Church,

true though the shitstem has gotten into the church and there are alot of chrissy missy and mister but most rastafarians i know would call themselves christ-ians the difference being chrissy fools are the holier than though type and a true christ-ian knows to "judge not"

 

to me the crazy baldheads
is someone who does not look
after nature and what creation
gave us ...as a human

also those in higher positions in life
who are selfish...
and rule over others with hate and anger
for not understanding the other cultures.........

thank you just my opinion
love n peace from saff
no man should rule over any other man....

 

bald people scare me man

 

Where do u all get your Rasta knowledge from ? From fortune cookies ?
Rasta nah seperate themselves from no-one ! We are not a seperated people, I and I are united ! Ever heard Bob Marleys song "One Love" ?? If you all really follow God and read your Bibles then you would know what these dreadlocks stand for and resemble !

@all

Baldheads = Babylon = anything or anybody that is negative/bad/wicked. That would be e.g. most police, politricktians, most soldiers, rascists, the KKK, bad thoughts, murderers, liars, etc.,etc.,

One Love
prophet7

 

Greetings all. Check this, did Haile Selassie cut and comb his hair? Nuff said. I don't care if Bob Marley did write a song about it with a catchy beat. This song, like Heathen, etc. are part of a militant, fundamentalist, phase that many rastas, including myself, have been through where they are fanatically judgemental toward those outside their beLIEf shitstem.

 

are rastas allowed to sometimes cut their hair... not for looks, i;d never do that, but out of necessiry after a while. can you guys trim pubes and such... idk

 

don't haffi dread to be rasta...Morgan Heritage
In fact, most rastas didn't have dreads 'till the '50s/60s.

 

You consider Bob Marley to be a fundamentalist? I don't consider him judgemental, but I wouldn't know how extreme his beliefs are compared to your average rastafari, considering I don't know much about rasta beliefs on a whole.

I do notice that some of his lyrcis are very politically/religiously minded while some are very neutral. Perhaps phases of his life?

 

yes. he went through a militant phase, that's all. he came out of it toward the late seventies. Rasta can be, or can have, a very militant/revolutionary side, the whole fyah bun thing. Part of it is a spiritual discipline, firmness, a lion-like stance toward the world; part of it is intolerance toward other faiths, people of the world, etc. a spiritual pride thing.

Not all rastas are like this way, many of the more devout are. This fiery brand of rasta changed my life, for the better, but made me a very judgemental person with all of the spiritual depravity that implies .

That said, Rasta is one of the brightest faiths out there, a true mystical firebrand, not always succumbing to the ways of the world or this forum.

 

Why is jamaica so anti rasta? Why aren't rasta children allowed higher ed? I'm confused...i thought jamaica was extremely rastafarian

 

Rasta is still somewhat seen as being anti-social. Babylon was where they were at and they fought against it. It's no wonder Babylon fought and continues to fight against them. Also Jamaica is very Christian, very protestent, and very religious in general. Rasta is anethema to that culture and the power structure that comes out of it. As far as rastas not being allowed in higher ed, I've never heard of that. In fact, there are many rasses in Jamaica that are professionals: doctors, lawyers, teachers, politicians, and so forth.

One more quick note: when Haile Selassie I visited Jamaica in 1966, without verifying his role within the rasta belief system, he campaigned on behalf of the human rights of his supporters. Much improved as a result.

 

I dont understand.... you all sit here and say just becuase you let your hair get all knottied up that you havent conformed and those who cut their hair are conformed to babylon and the rest of the shit storm called corperate america. I shave my head, not becuase i wanted to look like everyone else, i did it to make my life simple, no hair, no care.... never will i conform to the machine. i refuse to work for corperate america... i work for the small man... mom and pops... my boss jokingly asked me if i was gonna run off and work for applebees cuz its opening up, and i was like "hell no, i refuse to work for any corperate business, you cant do what you want, you do what they want"


PS: sorry for the rambling at the end :&

 

It is about being seperate from the latent european, in social structure/custom influence not power, and christian dominant social entities in the world today. Yet at the same time it is about being one with nature and not to waste your time with combing and grooming and working to put the slickest cleanest version of you out, almost in denial of the natural manifest of yourself. I think the fact that you have a baldhead is must less directly refered to by this than say someone who feels they must gell their hair all slick everyday or someone driven bald through the stresses of business and hoarding. You're decisions reflects a simple sort of sensibility in choosing the easiest path in a way, and not going out of your way to clean your appearance up twards societies standards.
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I could be wrong but last year I read something that Salassie wrote, or it was written about the writing of Salassie.


I lead me to belive that there were bald headed Rastafari. This is what lead me into my "Secert life" as I call it, I stoped useing metal to eat with, cut out dairy, Stoped drinking and have tried alot to moderate caffine but I am addicted to coffee. I also started keeping my hair covered in public for the most part.