But I love him daddy

When I was a teenager, my dad said I could date anyone except a deadlocked Rasta. He said he doesn't want 'no weed-smoking, Ital eating, jerk pork hating Rastafari' brainwashing his "baby"and encouraging me to 'burn down Babylon'!

I thought about being defiant, but every time I wore anything that resembled red, gold & green, my dad would reach for his blood-pressure tablets and I really didn't want to be the reason for my mother becoming a widow.