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And he would stay

on the other side of the road and...

He was very shy. He was very shy.

He was a shy guy.

I'll play your favorite song darling

He had a seriousness,

and he was one

that you could say

was reaching out for love.

- I didn't think,

I liked brown-skin men.

I always dream of a guy...

tall, black, handsome.

Every young girl's dream in Jamaica

is to have a tall, black boyfriend.

They would call Bob an outcast...

because he really don't belong to no...

you're in-between.

You're black and white, so they're...

"You're not even black."

I think he always felt

like an outsider...

because he was a half breed.

And when Mortimer Planno took him in,

well, that automatically

gave him acceptance.

Mortimer Planno was

a Rasta spiritual leader who taught Bob.

- He was like a preacher.

He preached Rastafarianism,

and he had a following.

He hooked up

with Bob as a young boy.

I think that they gelled together.

Bob looked up to him?

- Yes.

Rastafarian were

the only true Afrocentric black people.

Who preached self-reliance,

who preached self-confidence.

But we interpret

the Bible a different way.

Most of these places that they're telling

you about in the Bible is in Africa.

The Garden of Eden is in Africa.

The teaching that we get

from the elders then...

is that we always have to look upon

a black man as God.

For we, somebody

that we can identify with.

Emperor Haile Selassie I

is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.

He's our God. Rasta God.

Rasta said the purpose of life

is to be happy.

Everybody's supposed to be happy...

and live in peace, love and unity.

Yeah, mon.

I think when him start take it serious

now as a Rastaman...

was when him start growing dreadlocks.

- Locks meant that you were a Rastafarian

and you've taken a vow...

Nazarite vow not to cut or comb

your hair for a certain length of time,

and it has a significance

and is not to be taken lightly.

- How important are the dreadlocks?

- This? This is my identity, mon.

- Is that part of being a Rasta?

- Yeah, this is my identity.

- Then you go through

all the various rules...

for living as set out by the Bible.

How you eat, how you live,

how you treat other people.

And he believed that, um,

if you practice these things,

well, life will be better.

Not only for you,

but for everyone else.

Got to have kaya now

Got to have kaya now

Got to have kaya now

For the rain is falling

Marijuana's illegal in Jamaica,

but the Rastas say they smoke it

because the Bible tells them to.

The Book of Revelations

says to "partake of the herb."

- The herb was like

a sacramental food to us.

We take it for reasons,

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