Note to white people with dreadlocks:

you say that whites just use dreads as fahsion, while for black it's more of a spiritual purpose. Oh, really?!! I know so many black "gigolo" guys who got dreads, and some of them arent rasta at all, it's just an image/style thing. And i do know many white guys and girls that are very rasta/spiritual in many ways... Don't generalize, it's one of the causes of racism, generalisation....

 

i have dreads, and i dont have them for attention or because i wanted to impress anybody, in fact before i got them i thought nobody would like them. Im not a rasta, and they arent for any spiritual thing, idk i just like them. its the same thing as if someone dyed their hair red, or a darker brown or got highlights or lowlights. its the same as if someone cut their hair a different way. Its a hairstyle, but it represents who i am i guess. Peace~

 

I thought of dreads today as football was on at our house. so all those football players are spiritual Rastas? I doubt it but what do I know? I don't keep up with football players at all. just noticed all their dreads hanging out.

I really don't care what people's hairstyles are, if they like it for themselves, fine. You can't please everyone else, so please yourself.

 

AH HA HA HA HA!!! This is some funny stuff here! I never would have thought that when I was 56 people would still be griping about friggin hair. So we still are what we wear as hair? LOLz Here's me at 18. 1968 The hair is as it came out of my head. I guess maybe I should have been Shirley Temple instead of a hippy? Peace Love, and much Respect.

 

As my brother and I sat reading this forum he turned to me and said something that makes so much sense... "how can we expect world peace if we're fighting over a hairstyle!" Just thought I'd add my two cents.


Much love to all
Dani

 

Ian Hunter are ya??!! lol. I was a mott the hoople freak back in the day.

love to all, hair is hair, let it grow as it likes.

 

is Mimosa a real name? i had a dream the other night and someone said something about Mimosa...i never heard that name before....weird

 

<G> I never heard the Ian Hunter one before. But ya I looked up his pic on google. There is a resemblance there. And he's not bad looking. I'll take that as a compliment. Thanks!

 

I think the dream world is a parallel universe, so maybe I was there somehow....anyway that's another thread....

 

Dreamin, streamin, MattedHair.

 

to the original poster,

man shut the hell up you closed minded asshole.

 

what he said^^

 

I'm a white kid with dreads, and I have them because I like how they look. I like how they look because they help me achieve the look I'm going for--which is, as you referred to, hippy stoner. I still live with my parents (though I'm only 14, so this is no surprise), but there's nothing wrong with that either. Just love everybody for who they are, and stop making seperations between race. Race is unimportant, should be disregarded--we are all people. I don't think anybody on this forum agrees with you, so the least you could do would be to gracefully admit defeat in this argument. Love you man! Hope you manage to get the hate and anger out of you without pissing all us dreadheads off.

 

Henry151--- Such wise words! It's good to see the younger end of my generation picking up the torch and passing on the peace! Blessed Be!

 

Dreadz are meant 2 dizturb yoh nice, clean and normal ideah uv whereitzat idiot.

 

wonderfully said. dont think i really need to say anything.

 

- Please excuse my ignorance, but how exactly does one go about acquiring dreadlocks anyway ??? How they are actually formed has always mystified me.

 

So youre basicly saying any white person with fuzzy hair should go kill themselves?

Dreads are about the only cool thing you can do with that kind of hair, besides big afros.

 

For the guy who asked about dreads go to knottyboy.com, they can fix ya up with all the info on how to make them happen quick-like. If you are a ourist, just stop combing or brushing your hair, wait a long time and separate the matting hair so you don't get a beaver paddle. Some folks wax them, some folks swim in seawater to tighten them.

And for the sister who remarked that those of us who should decide to have dreads should maintain them (reasonable) but then went on to say that some get all matty and gross... well... don't dread your hair that way then. When hanging out in hippie communities, one expects to be accepted even if one looks offensive to someone else's fashion sense, as long as one is not a health threat or something, am I off base?
I could be.

I have had my hair dreaded for less than a year and I have been very surprised how much people sometimes assume about dreadlocked hair. The idea that Rastafarians in Jamaica invented dreadlocks is absurd. To make the argument that white people should not dread their hair should be extended to Jamaicans, because the religious dreading of hair extends from India and beyond.

But as long as there has been human hair there have been dreadlocks, so I don't understand that whole silly white dreadlock bigotry anyway. Does doing something different with a part of your body make you fell good? Happy? Then DO IT and screw all the critics.

Jimi said.... "I'm the one that has to die when it is my turn to die. So let me live my life the way I want to..."

Play on drummer. Sing on brother.


Pizza, V-