Worst complement ever.

Ok im 16 im hispanic/white i skate i like to draw. I am my self.

I live in the ghetto parts of NOrth carolina mostly blacks an hispanics more blacks tho.

I was going to the stock N' Save grocerie store cause i wanted some drink. As i was walking i Caught this black lady(im not racist) She looked as if she was really ruff like she had been into lots of drugs(she was as ghetto as she could be No teeth kinda old) Well i caught her in my eye looking at me i glanced at her an turned my head back.

Thats when i heard the words TRYING TO BE BLACK. Almost every black person here were i live has dreads. But that makes me so mad cause im not trying to be black. It seems as if she doesnt no the history of locks. She thinks only blacks can have locks. I really wanted to say somthing back but it would only make me more mad.

thats it.

 

well to me it sounds like you got insulted by a black woman. you sound kinda naive.
peace

 

what u meen ?

 

hahaha i got that once, i was in town and a black woman walked past me and about 2 seconds later all i heard was 'BUT SHE WAS WHITE!!' and she was really quite angry with me =]

 

idk i kinda laughed cause the way her face was looking she looked really messed up

 

i was sitting in the mall one morning skipping class and an old man came up to me and started talking to me. he was very open minded (and of course wasn't going to insult this young hot thing that was giving him her time), but then one of his friends came up and said "well she isn't dark skinned!" and im thinking, no fucktard, you couldn't tell that from 15ft away?

but its whatever, you can't be bothered by chosen ignorance.

 

I must admit, lately i have been getting some evils from a few black guys at the gym... perhaps its my dreads lol

 

People stare at me. I long passed giving a shit. Dont take it to heart

 

Sorry you're catching grief about your hair. But you're gonna catch shit from all kinds of people for all kinds of things, your entire life. Learn to let it roll off of your back now and you'll be a better person for it, ask me how I know

I am the minority where I live but the girls at the gas station love my hair and a couple people have even stopped me in grocery stores to ask me about it. I've recco'd everyone to this forum of course. I met one chick at the Organic grocery mart and referred her to here and she couldn't find it. A week later she was working at the Starbucks I frequent and I explained to her how to hunt this forum down through HF. All this in the drive-thru. Sorry to ramble.....

 

A black woman approached me once the first time I had dreads and said..."Your not African why are you sporting dreads?" She was extremely rude with her tone of voice and body language...I just said..."Well according to the Kebra Negast were all from Africa arnt we?" She was completely speechless...it was awesome.

 

Love it!!! :cheers2:

 

wow ima build a shed in the mountains an live there away from every one loljk

 

i get called Jesus all the time, started before i had dreads, but i still get it.
theres nothing wrong with it but its kinda obnoxious.
just enjoying my walk to my class in the morning and some little girls whisper "oh my god he looks like Jesus."
it makes me want to go sit down with them and just stare at them.
the basketball coach bowed down to me once....

 

Teehee... yeah usually Im not very good with comebacks...but that one was easy.

 

You should sit down and stare at them...with no facial expression whatsoever...thatd be hillarious!

 

just suck it up. for every mean person you meet, there a nice one to come and say how much they like your dreads.

 

All you not black people should cut your locks right now, they are not real locks, you take everything away from us!















joooookes... i havent gotten any grief, not from anyone. not with my last set and not with this set. being 300 lbs, having a beard, having long hair, wearing stuff that has a tendency to stick out and not showing too much expression gets you enough attention, but its the attention to look like they're not paying attention... you know the locks just blend with the crazyness. ill admit though, there are hardly any black people in this city. i have about 3 black people i can call friends and anyone else is an acquaintance. its usually black people i read about who have problem with anyone other than a black man having locks.

but yeah, burn them with knowledge. letting them know that all hair will lock naturally should do it, but that africa stuff was intense. i wish someone asked me just so i could whip that out on them.

really though, people probably say things, maybe even your friends but while not letting you know. i think these people are the worst because you don't even have the chance to educate them or talk with them about it. they stay ignorant and spread ignorance.

 

Seth, I don't mean this in a bad way at all, but you kinda do look like Jesus (at least what's depicted of him) although I agree that's sort of obnoxious.

Yeah, staring at them would be funny, lol.

 

i usually get mad props from black people. they're like, yeah sistah rock them locks!!!

lol... maybe it's cause i gotta ghetto booty???

 

heh. maybe it's because of where I am, but I have never ever, not a once, had a single negative comment about my dreads. a lot of people like to talk to me about them, and a fair few girls have come up to me and gone "I like your hair!"

but who cares what someone else thinks of you? you know the truth, you know who you are, and you know your hair, just like your skin color, doesn't define you.
like the other poster said, let it roll off ya now and you will be much, much better for it in the long run, because people are going to keep giving you shit for as long as you live, and most of the time it'll be on account of their own issues.