Perpetual Indulgence
Bluelighter
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I do not like dreads...on anyone.
swilow said:Cavemen actually started it,
jaymie said:dreadlocks are a natural and eventual state of every kind of hair that is untreated whether you are black, white, red, or yellow.
GB~you rock![]()
ninjadanslarbretabar said:and i think that sayin "yo" is offensive to blacks if your white..
no, what i wanted to say is that this thread made me think about how strange human hair are, due to the fact that they just keep on growing and growing and they just never stop growing, you can end up with meters of hair if you care to...
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i mean animals usually have a fur with a certain respective size
and like the hair on my arm or legs, they stay at a certain size
so as mammals we mostly are "naked", but when it come to hair we have got this will never stop growing genes or something,,
i just think its strange
Edvard Munch said:![]()
It means she is allies with the Predator.
Paralogic said:...Of what subculture is she supposed to be in?
You must be getting a higher quality of conversation with your hairdresser.paradoxcycle said:You may know this already, how dreads are specifically Jamaican and are, in origin, inseparable from Rastafari culture and faith - Ras Tafari being a name of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I. Selassie also held the title “Lion of Judah” - thus, as I understand it, to wear dreads is to identify with, and in a sense be, a lion.
One could argue that anyone not Rastafari who sports dreadlocks is committing an act of cultural appropriation. Especially when worn as a aggressive “mainstream political” statement - for instance, the more radical groups of New Zealand Maori who adopted dreads, but not Rastafari, during my stay there in the 80s. (Incidentally, there were many “whites” in New Zealand who identified themselves as Maori and wore dreads, if their hair could be so treated without it looking more stupid than leonine.) Bob Marley the Conciliator (or at least so his modern deifiers would claim) would have likely spoken against such a use of dreads.
His comment to a white person with dreads likely would not have reflected a sense of being offended, but, rather, the thought “That is not I”, meaning that it’s not an accurate reflection of the white person’s sacred individuality. (Rastas use “I” where more conventional English uses “you”.)
There’s a lot to be said for this. To wear, carry or act out something in ignorance of your own heritage, or in flattery or emulation of another’s, is to diminish your own self, your own history. Wouldn’t it be far better if we could each embrace our own histories, fix the problems they have, and move forward?