Word: jamaica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stops to talk, especially when favored (West Indian) customers come in. He came to the United States ten years ago working at a ski lodge as a cook ("I used to go to work in true snow storm, man, at 35 below for $1.50 an hour and me from Jamaica? I was ready to go home, man!"). He intended to save enough to start his own business in Jamaica, but he's invested in his restaurant and doesn't now know whether he'll go back home. The Silver Slipper is as much a second start for Leonard Matthews...
...Since I was 11 years old I worked in restaurants and hotels," he says, "first in Jamaica and then here. I start in an American restaurant as a boilerman, and I watch and I learn until I make it to assistant chef, I don't know anything else...
Survival is Marley's most political album to date, perhaps a result of the deteriorating political situation in Jamaica, where the ruling socialist party has failed to improve the living conditions of the burnt-out ghettos like Kingston's Trenchtown...
...revere Haile Selassie, former Ethiopian emporer, as their God. They smoke ganja ritually as a key part of their religion. Rastafarians have always been a peaceful folk. Marley's decision to endorse violence despite his Rastafarian commitment indicates how desperate he thinks the situation has grown in Jamaica...
Marley combines his advocacy of violence with a warning that the eleventh hour approaches for his people, that each year fewer blacks object to their oppression. Politically, Marley's album will probably have a considerable effect in Jamaica. Though many in the U.S. view him as merely a talented composer, Marley is considered a leader by most Jamaicans and a prophet by many...