Black Panther Party of Northern California - Freedom Archives

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Though it .is commonly agreed that the practice of polygamy is on the way out
it is still by na means obsolete .
Searching for facts on the marriage customs in Africa, I asked a young "files
A:~ri can vahom I had been led to believe was a participant 'in a polygamous maic.=
riage, what he thought about polygamy as a national custom, He promptly shot
bac; :
"We axe no more polygamous than those men in your country who hav~ aparrments
for t:~air lovers on Fifth Rvenue . Our acts are legal under Mus13Mg ]~atv and
customary law . It must be agreed to by the families . Polygamy is ~ very good
~.n .si;itution . It is a very unselfish institution ."
f_~ n, nore calmly, he ^gadded, "polygamy is basically an associa~tiorl of the
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