Ras
Sam Brown was a
Jamaican Rastafari elder well known in
Kingston for his
politics after he participated in the
elections of 1961 with his
Suffering People's Party. He received fewer than 100
votes, yet by being the first rasta to ever stand for politics his influence has been greater than this statistic suggests, especially as at the time there was generalised feeling in the Rastafarian movement that Rastas do not vote. He had a 21 point plan. Some of his ideas were: