According to the Ethiopian Orthodox church, the one you guys supposedly subscribe to (Rasta being a branch of it), white people can't be Rasta, it's an impossibility, you must be black. Being a "white rasta" must be crappy, knowing Selassie will come back and only take the black people with him and leave your asses behind.... Sorry if it's been mentioned before... TLDR.
It's just white people wanting to be black, folks. That's why they have dreads. No other reason. End thread.
i havent really touched this thread, because i'm smart enough to know that i'm ignorant enough on the topic to not be able to contribute, but this is just stupid. and i think most of the people in here would agree with me on the fact that wearing dreads is about as far from wanting to be anything as you can get. i wear dreads because i want to be me, and i am knotty. my dreads are mine, they are nobody elses, and thats kind of the point, i grew them, i wear them and they dont look like anybody elses. blacks get tiger woods, we get colon powell, the chinese get the wu tang clan and nobody wants condie, its the way the world works, we steal culture, but nobody can really claim dreadlocks as being their own, learn your history, its EVERYBODY
i dont wanna be black i love and respect my self as white dreadlocks are not just for black people, the ethiopian church may be just for blacks (but its the same as any other orthodox church that accepts only the local people) dont forget what white people did to black people it may sound odd but it is a normally evolved racism .. they received our racism and now we receive theirs)
Thank you for pointing that out. I am not rasta, but I learned something from you. My hope is that perhaps you will consider being less hostile as you teach. namaste
Agreed. A bunch of ****** wanna bee's using their drug addiction as a reason for dreads cause it's all cool and shit and most of them are the teenage wiggers it seems, well maybe people between 15 and 23 here.. But not to worry, they will OD and be gone.