Dreadlocks

[Remote]

Anyone here have or had dreadlocks?

What made you get them?
How long did you wear them?
I saw this one guy (he was white) who had dreadlocks. He was on that Nat Geo show "Locked up Abroad" and they forced him to cut his dreads in order to transport drugs. Dude cried. It's that serious?


They're not for me, personally, but I just think they're cool.

I used to just get fades but lately I've been growing it out a bit.
I'm still not ready to go full european soccer player long hair yet.


Edit -- I should have posted a picture or two, just for the hell of it.

 

[Nomad1]

fukk them rasta nikkas all smelly and shyt

 

[Remote]

fukk them rasta nikkas all smelly and shyt

 

[Nomad1]

 

[Elle Driver]

I saw this one guy (he was white) who had dreadlocks. He was on that Nat Geo show "Locked up Abroad" and they forced him to cut his dreads in order to transport drugs. Dude cried.

White people should not wear dreads, at all. shyt is disrespectful.

 

[Remote]

White people should not wear dreads, at all. shyt is disrespectful.

No exceptions?

 

[Money Be Green]

No exceptions?

No

 

[Elle Driver]

No exceptions?

A lot of my family are Rastas, so them wearing dreads comes from the fact that they believe Jah ordered them not to be bald headed. But also, the reason they're even called "dread locks" instead of just locks/locs is because they're commemorating slaves coming off slave ships and arriving in the Americas with matted unkempt hair. The slave masters referred to them as "dreadful".

Why white people would wear dreads is beyond me, it's disrespectful, and appropriating a culture that was the result of them destroying it in the first place is a joke to me. White people were the reason dreadlocks were created anyway. They make fun of our hair textures, but as soon as we celebrate them, they wanna join in? fukk outta here.

 

[Remote]

A lot of my family are Rastas, so them wearing dreads comes from the fact that they believe Jah ordered them not to be bald headed. But also, the reason they're even called "dread locks" instead of just locks/locs is because they're commemorating slaves coming off slave ships and arriving in the Americas with matted unkempt hair. The slave masters referred to them as "dreadful".

Why white people would wear dreads is beyond me, it's disrespectful, and appropriating a culture that was the result of them destroying it in the first place is a joke to me. White people were the reason dreadlocks were created anyway. They make fun of our hair textures, but as soon as we celebrate them, they wanna join in? fukk outta here.

I didn't know that history.
Loving the education tho

 

[Yuzo]

No exceptions?

indians could since they invented it

 

[Remote]

indians could since they invented it

Which indians?
India? So it didn't originate in Africa?

 

[observe]

Oakland started that trend..then they tried to bite, but they're 5 years too late..we on some new shyt

 

[Money Be Green]

Which indians?
India? So it didn't originate in Africa?

 

[Elle Driver]

Which indians?
India? So it didn't originate in Africa?

Sadu Indians. They didn't invent it though, but there are Indian Rastas, I've seen them for myself.

 

[Yuzo]

Which indians?
India? So it didn't originate in Africa?

it didnt originate anywhere dreads happens becuase when you grow your hair long it tangles into itself nd locks together. look up the history of it poeple all over the ancient world had hair like that.

the rastas in particular took the idea from indian mystics. rastafari are newcomers when it comes to the cuture of locked hair overall