I wish the first EVER person who had dreadlocks would wake up from the dead with the message to people all around the world saying - ALL people can have dreadlocks, PERIOD, now let me rest in peace i am tired of this bullshit.
Vikings and ancient Greeks had dreadlocks and some peculiar hairstyles that seem to be similar all over the world... so there is no cultural appropriation because it was also present in European culture!!!
I'm frustrated by the argument that a 'white' person can not have dreads. I've had dreads for 15 years and wear them proudly in both defiance and because they make me who I am. With dreads I feel whole. I came hear searching once again to find valid, level headed insight into the argument. Thank you for making positive and educated comments. Love and peace to you bro. Duby
Dreads is as old as man itself within white and black culture. It isn’t a black culture thing it’s a human hair characteristic this would happen to all of us period just combs and short hair prevent this.
Must be nice to have nothing more to worry about than what someone else's hair is doing... You be you- it's no one's business how your wear your hair. When did we become such joyless, finger-wagging great aunts?!
I'm black with dreads and I find it annoying hearing people saying white people with dreads? nope! " I got my dreads because of a teacher I had in high school who was a dread head because I loved how they but never thought of getting them until her.
It's beautiful that you are wonderfully informed. I have no problem with anyone wearing locks, as long as they are informed. That includes Black folk as well.
Well, I guess most humans had dreadlocks in prehistoric and ancient times, you know, before shampoo and comb. Never thought about culture just as a human thing belonging to all the people of the earth?
Hailey White You're welcome. I'm so pleased it's at all helpful. I hope the following videos in the series offer the some amount of support and encouragement as this has :)
Thank you for posting this. I have had dreads for approx 5 years but I'm not white nor black. I'm hispanic. Not sure where that leaves us but...that really doesn't matter. There's a bigger evil corporation that's trying to divide us as a people in any way they can. Many many white people take their locs seriously and feel a somewhat spiritual connection to it and what it stands for. it's not just a fashion trend or hipster phase. So hopefully you haven't felt that kind of backlash. Your dreads look great btw!!!
Wear all the dreads you want. In Hindu theology, Lord Shiva wears dreads and that has been for many millennia. If we can use your language (English) and other inventions, why should you be prohibited from borrowing aspects of other cultures?
indians are black people and have black culture, of course the balck indians will have dreadlocks because it is a black thing oh my God, are you on crack
Great message, thank you. Dreadlocks Unite, now that would be a beautiful movement filled with the most diverse collection of humans where age, race & gender is irrelevant.
Just wanting to be informed, what about synthetic locks? Always loved the history and look of locks in different cultures and would love to get them done
Down with cultural segregation. It's divisive and exclusionary. It doesn't help innovation. People that are racist, prejudice and bigoted can appear to care about minorities while keeping people of different races from interacting while sharing common interests. Racist people don't want to see anyone from their race embracing the culture of another race or another race embracing anything from theirs. It's a great tool for dividing people. The world would be so boring if we couldn't learn other languages or try different foods, make different kinds of music, wear different styles of clothing. If we try to put restrictions on each other. If we try to control people's creativity and expression. While I agree that people deserve credit for creating a music genre or hairstyle, they don't own it. They have no patent or legal rights that would allow them to restrict anyone. Can you imagine if everyone started restricting everyone about everything? The world would be a horrible place full of restrictions. We'd be walking on eggshells all the time wondering whose culture we'll be accused of appropriating next. I think the claim of cultural appropriation is a way for racist people to tell people to stay in their own lane. Don't perform hip hop or we will classify you as a cultural appropriator. I mean look what they did to Bruno Mars. He is a talented musician and singer but because he's filipino and performing funk, soul, R&B, reggae and hip-hop they are calling him a cultural appropriator. That's just divisive and exclusionary period. To try to control art innovation expression is a crime. To think that it's not a part of American culture after it's been playing on the radio, tv, records, tapes, cd's and now the computer. For generations all of American culture has been influenced by what black people have created. Black people deserve recognition but where it becomes divisive, exclusionary and just plain racist is when one race tries to dictate who can perform certain genres or wear different hair styles based on their skin color.
This is what I've been looking for. A very well thought out, composed and insightful response to something that I have struggled to spell out myself. I knew the answer was there, and here it is. Thank you.
The term "dreadlocks" being used for this style, however, did originate with the Rastafarian movement. To them it symbolizes many things including the rejection of conventional western mainstream beauty standards, and the dread some may feel when confronted with the true natural self.
It's from india our oldest god shiva had jattas (dreadlocks) ,it serves the purpose of reaching enlightenment , m just confused why are you guys fighting about it 😅
Saying its racist actually feels racist/focusing on the difference instead of the similarities between us all. It's actually not about skin cooler. And some of us actually believe we all come from the same one human race and culture that spred all over the world as brothers and sisters in Christ. Locks are actually in the bible too 🙏 🙌 Here's some quotes. God bless all ♡ Numbers 6:5 “All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long. Judges 16:13 Then Delilah said to Samson, “Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you might be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and fasten it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.” Judges 16:19 She made him sleep on her knees. And she called a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him. Ezekiel 8:3 He put out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy. 1 Samuel 1:11 And she vowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.” 2 Samuel 14:26 And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king's weight. Numbers 6:1-27 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord, he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried. All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins. “All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long. ..
May I just add to this please? They are part of all cultures, in Britain it was the celts and the Britons whp wore them. They were known as elf locks and it was believed to be bad luck to brush them out. It was the romans who forced lose hair on western civilisation. We lost our culture due to them and then, like total dicks, just pushed it on the rest of the world.
@@114wildfire one of the oldest depictions is on Minoan ceramics, so Greek culture, then Egyptians, Roman's also have written about the Celts and Germanic tribes to wear their hair "like snakes". Sadhus in India... Really dreadlocks can be found all around the world. Look at dogs with long hair. You don't comb them, they get dreadlocks
@@DreadsUKdotcom I read, buy why do i have to care about what happened to my people? In the US slavery is DEEPLY rooted in this country. PLUS IM BLACK And had great grand parents who were was around when in the early 1900s, and who grand parents were slaves, so im closely connected…also ITS MY HISTORY! My ancestors, my bloodline ive been researching since i was 10. So like i said, ROOTS DONT SCRATCH THE SURFACE ON HOW GOD awful these seed of satan treated my ancestors…read slave journals to see how terrible these people were…. I mean the ish in document and you asked me was you there? Likes chattel slavery wasn’t terrible.
@@hasanbagel "Some of the earliest depictions of dreadlocks date back as far as 1600-1500 BCE in the Minoan Civilization, one of Europe's earliest civilizations, centred in Crete (now part of Greece).Frescoes discovered on the Aegean island of Thera (modern Santorini, Greece) depict individuals with long braided hair or long dreadlocks." - wikipedia
Got respect for you cuz u keep it a buck since the start of the video it’s just ever since egypt we had dreads and now they saying we not from egypt so as blacks we feel like we just being ignored and stolen from our own land and culture and I don’t like using culture cuz a lot of y’all will say that it’s a style it’s not I have my hair cuz I know it’s a extension of my Nervous system and connects to the cosmic energy aka dark matter and my hair works like antennas that’s where dreads came from hint Why our hair stands up and is curly because it has electricity
Can you please stop European culture of wearing clothes? Can you also stop using British culture of the internet and trains? Now I'm be facetious and joking. Different cultures have been taking inspiration from other cultures since the dawn of human kind, adapting and creating new cultures.
Hey in my opinion if whites wants to rock dreadlocks Let them . I think it’s so cool and beautiful that they too rock the dreads it says a lot about how they feel about it and us a people , if they rock it they rock with us 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Why isn't it cultural appropriation to straighten and dye your hair blonde if you aren't European? I grew up as the only white kid at school in Sudan. It one of my classmates straightened and dyed their hair blonde, why is this different to a European braiding or having dreadlocks? Also Vikings had dreadlocks and probably Neanderthals. So so dumb. No dreads aren't cultural appropriation, but they are gross, and used to be a sign of not washing i.e. the Aghori of India and greek statues of "Barbarians" etc
Who would screw up their hair like that? This is the 21st century why are you wearing your hair like it was medieval times. Cut your hair, wash it. So simple. Get over this crap.
Provide spacific aspects, and we'll gladly explore. But the trouble is, too many internet trolls with no knowledge spamming messages like this. "then saying, i dont owe you research". Ok, but then you dont get to disagree without givinf a source or its just and oppinion with no basis in fact. The information in this video is completely accurate at the time of filming. If you have sources to the contrary. Feel free to bring them to the table.
Why are you so offended If a non black person wears locs or braids ?. In the Bible God says he made Man in his image we all share too common ancestors Which is Adam and Eve .
@@DreadsUKdotcom go back to black history you will Egyptians have locs not dreads, moors have locs not dreads,Queen Medusa have locs not dreads! White ppl will never have locs ever
@@kjyles2595 Define locs and define dreads. They are no different. Dreadlocks are a blanket term to encompase all manner of locs. the massai warriors of africs and the sadhus of india have different names for them also. Do you maintain that these are also not dreadlocks? Your logic doesnt hold up to scrutiny
Your video is pointless for many reasons. One being that you don't have to explain how slavery is not your fault. Two, that you're British and not American, so slavery literally had nothing to do with your ancestors at all or you. Three dreads are not a race thing at all, it's just that in America white people don't usually go for that type of style.
I’m a 5th gen American on my fathers side. His great grandparents came here after slavery was abolished. They were born in the 1890s. Yet....I still get shit because of my race. My family is from what used to be known as Yugoslavia, more specifically, Croatia. A lot of white people in America have them, they just get so much crap from everyone else about it.
