Locked hair has been worn by basically every ethnic group at some point in history. The Celts did it, Buddhist monks have been doing it for hundreds of years, you name it. No one group has any more right to it than any other.
I think white people can wear it, its just they gotta be able to pull it off. Like, some black people can get dreads but they dont look good in it (idk how to explain)
you get locs even when you sleep, the religious aspect of it belongs to the children of Israel (who have a covenant with the God who CREATED 9AEL) the sun (RAH) and the Moon (ISIS) not is a sun or moon God as the Vatican christianity and islam link to with their calendars, judaism is a covenant not a religion, religio is a latin ROMAN word, means alliance with eh gods who where hybrid demons of lilith and Samael (SATAN) they genetically started modifying humans once establishing pyramids around the world, God then told Noah to tell everyone 7 laws can by pass this genetic disorder (we confirmed today is the PSYCHOPATH GENE) by keep 7 laws they can by pass it, but after the flood people who had no more demonic slave monsters pretending to be sun and moon gods still seeked their guidance, worshiping things so it got to the point where Israelites refused to and became slaves in Egypt where the pharoah refused to let them go, Moses got them out with God and told the children of Israel they where the chosen for resisting paganism, but they where been tested to see who activated this genetic disorder, so people where forced to wait until those with the psychopath gene started worshiping a golden cow and then Moses killed them as ordered. Today the Romane Empire adopted a false messiah called Jesus, same religio religion same calendar means alliance with these false gods, Hitler himself learned from he pope that the Vatican believed germans where a atlantean race, one of the races God flooded , some where good some where bad but its what it is, they had infested the earth to be gods by making humans slaves, it was the plan from the start in eden when they got Adam to eat from the tree of a mortal world, once they had Adam in the world lilith his ex later demon stile his sperm, created Lilian, married her to Cane, they had Enoch and realised all souls are pure, enoch was good, so satan then created pyramids to enter the world through as the Egyptian books of the dead show and then genetically modified humans provoking gods wrath and the flood. The Hair locs are a specific selected from the 12 tribes to symbolise unity, one love, they where singer picked nay Moses, later natherites lived in nazereth,, never cut their hair, drink alcohol and a few other things which requires a vow which can only be pulled at a temple, so today if one takes this vow its a life vow,
but its envy when they see a privileged person with them as If its a poor thang, 1-you can have natural locs, 2-you can wick natural locs 3-you can add extensions as well to no locs, most African Americans do this to have variety. is this privileged, only for blacks allowed yes, Bob Marly marginalized the style, cushioning a faith and music for freedom love and unity, Lenny Kravitz who at the time liked women and into fashion has zero spiritual reasons for the locs, his father white, mother black, yet he is not recognised by the black community, comments like as soon as he speaks you clearly hear a white man, he aint a brotha, etc etc, yet Lenny himself envies white people with hair locs cause he wants to be in the centre of the stage, his whole band all rather have Globetrotters hair styled afros and pose like charlies angels silhouettes in the background, people recently emerged saying he did not even write some of his songs and he ripped them off from neighbours at rehearsal studios and maybe its true but today he speaks about spirituality, still has no clue what the rasta faith means to Rastas, maybe never even heard of the oath nazarite's made as jews or through Haili Selasi, God does not need slaves or created mankind to serve him, satan messed with man genetics and did this as you can find in the Egyptian books of the dead and pyramids, are black people linked to hybrid ddemons with dog heads in Egypt lilith created using Adams sperm? seriously, cause all the mummies had EUROPEES DNA, all of them, they did not find one that was tested to contain asian south asian (black) DNA. I say everyone should have locs
@@BrendanH99_ Viking locs has been largely debunked. It's not about any supremacist BS (National Socialists co-opted Viking mythology, ironically enough), it's just that the long hair of Viking men was combed and braided like Native males. Letting it matte/lock was not really a Norse thing.
Im a white guy, i've had dreads for 13ish years. I've met/known many black people over the years...From Uganda, Somalia, Kenya AND Jamaica. Over that time, I have never had anyone get upset about the hair on my head...except for white middle-class women. I am not trying to be an edgelord, that is my experience....
And cops lol I'm kind of just joking but I've had locs for 9 years now they go to my waist. I also have a lot of tattoos and piercings, I'm 37 years old as well and I have never had anyone be upset with me about it Bc I take such good care of them. everyone is usually asking me if they are fake or if I'm wearing one of those dreadlock hats in the winter 😅 I did have a lady forcibly ask me to take my hat off, then she was like "oookay! That's awesome, it looks good on you" lol but cops always think I have drugs on me and I've been pulled over way more times than when I didn't and it's funny bc I don't do drugs, smoke weed or even drink any more...when I did all that without locs 😂 anyway, I've asked my black friends, random people from Africa, Ethiopia, Jamaica...etc. if it offends them and all of them has said no. I would never want to purposely offend anyone, but I do know that I've loved them since I was young just didn't have the type of job that would allow me to have long locs. Now I'm a tattoo artist and I am "allowed" to look however I want..(which I think is bullshit) but that's beside the point. I haven't gotten any hate to my face, I just see it all over the internet.
@@krystamc6976 lol yep, and cops. I should stress too that ive met many middle class white women both with dreads/locks or who didnt care....but thats the only group thats vocalised an issue directly too me...im sure theres many others that judge without comment!
Yea ask yourself why your middle class white women don’t like locs on you..BC ITS NOT FOR YOU OR YOUR HAIR TEXTURE you bafon 😭you look like a 1970s peace sign hippy while locs actually COMPLIMENT black peoples skin and hair texture. Embrace your straight hair due lol
Im white, ive had dreadlocks for 25 years. Growing up around east london in the 80s and 90s, reggae soundsystem culture is a big part of everyones youth from these ends, the white punks and black rasta grew up together sharing everything and loving one another, from it was born raving, drum and bass, dub step, grime, ska music, lovers rock. It was a melting pot of cultures and artisic flow. Some rasta turned punk, some punk turned rasta. Many white actually had hair dreaded by their mates black Jamaican mums. It aslo become a spiritual hair cut in British festival culture way back in the 70s. Its not the dread its the head. We bleed the same and have a heart.
Dreadlocks are not specifically black culture, I’m Native American and my ancestors had dreadlocks if anyone tries to tell you that dreadlocks come from a specific culture it is completely untrue
thats true, the thing is though Dreads are not black culture. Ancient Egypt, India and Greece is where most people believe dreads originated from and none of these places were ever black.
true, two thousand years or so ago, the Romans wrote that the celts "wore snakes for hair" Tribes in Germania had similar features because it is the natural state,
Well depends on the type usually black dreads are more neat looking I suppose because the ends on white people's dreads straighten out so they look like noodles before there cooked, and black people usually get box braids, or two strand twist, or mohawk dreads like the end result is just different for the different hair types@@duckonquack95
My ancestors are Celtic!!! Thousands of years ago, us white as sand people “locked” our hair. No race or culture and make claim on hairstyles. Indigenous people wore their hair in braids. Well so did the people of Norway. Who’s being racist? The indigenous culture or the Norwegians???? The truth is, no one. It’s a hair style. I love my hair locked. I loved my hair braided, I’ve had cornrows too.
And the guy above clearly doesn't know how evolution works or how how we as a species developed. I love how you had to say "white mutation" instead of recognizing how melanin works.
@@Pfpfpfpfpf2020 OMG the word loc is an English word rooted in ancient German and Indo-European so white people have been wearing locs for thousands of years.
I’m a black woman and with locs if people studied history they would see all race of people wore dreads before we were all born stuff history geesh black women lest stop wearing straight wigs that don’t match ur texture
That's false. Many cultures have had tangled hair yes but not locs. Fact is our hair naturally forms locs. Look at freeform. Show me a white person that has hair that naturally does that. Every other culture has had to artificially emulate that look
@Elektrikkiss for real? C'mon.. Serious. ALL hair will loc after a while...how fast? Depends on hair type. I have a friend...he's white and his hair is thick and curly. He has natural afro hair (type). ALL hair will lock. Has nothing to do with skin color. It's about hair type. And yes.. Black peoples hair type will loc faster most of the time. Everyone can get freeform locs. It will take longer for some (white colored people) with another hair type. Even my dog's hair will lock. Don't know if he's white, black or orange🤔. Saying white peoples hair can't lock naturally is rediculous. Even free-form. Did you ever had long hair? Are you white... It will loc for sure. Do with your hair what you want. Even if you use crochet hooks for it. Such debates are useless. I have dreads but did it by lock and twist, back combing, crochet hooks. 7 months in and they're getting good. I'm not there yet. For free-form.... I could have done that.. But I don't have the patience. 1 year for getting good looking locs is long enough for me. If people want to avoid me for my locs... Perfect to me. I don't want to deal with such shallow minded people. No matter their skin color. There's enough polarization and hate. If people starting hating for hair styles 🙈. This world is lost.
@@Followyourpassions all hair does not loc. There are various processes you have to do to get European hair to loc. Look at the thousands of white RUclipsrs who got dreads crying about there hair not locing or how difficult it is to keep it loc'ed you are lying out your as#. Not white person has 4c black hair which is completely unique to black people which is scientific fact. Please stop the lies! Your probably a desperate yt' person trying to justify your culture vulture behaviour. Black people do not have to do ANYTHING to our hair for it to loc on itself. Your hair will look a tangled mess but it will not look like locs without you manipulating it into locing. Locs have been apart of black culture for a decade and still ARE. You are a culture vulture and should be ashamed of yourself.
Mummies with completely well preserved, - what are now called dreadlocks - have been found in Peru. Those mummies are approximately 1500 years old. This should make it quite clear: Braids and ' dreadlocks ' have originated INDEPENDENTLY throughout the history of mankind.
If people are happy inside they love another what shows how many arent....broken and empty inside so you get hate, negativity, double standards, violent, talk about others, jealousy, frustrations etc..... Better to walk alone so you have more strength, power, happyness, peace, time and space..... People are programmed robot slaves dont know who they are....sad
Appreciate that dude, being a white guy, I have other white people tell me “you must make black people mad” “isn’t it offensive?” I reply with “Jesus more then likely had dreads, he didn’t have a hair brush”
I just wanna say that I’m a white dude with 4 year old freeform locs and I’ve never had any negative feedback, the only feedback I’ve gotten are compliments from black people.
My point lol. Its a form of friendship if anything at all but hair. But the power is so scared of us people getting along that they try to push this shit on us. Hopefully it just brings us closer together :)
If anybody ever says anything to you bro just tell them that white people don’t complain about black chicks with fake straight blonde and red wigs . Even when guys dye their dreads or hair blonde and red nobody complains. It’s a superiority complex and a coping mechanism because they don’t like their own life. Just know real ones support you to do whatever you want
ive been growing and cutting my sets of dreads since i was 12. i am almost 40 and still cannot say goodbye to the lifestyle. I dont care what race you are, or what hair type you have, if you leave it alone, stop using conditioner and use a residue free shampoo your hair will naturally mat with enough time, its natural to hair, ALL hair
Other earliest known possible depictions of dreadlocks date back as far as 1600-1500 BCE in the Minoan Civilization, 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.
So, this is my problem. I am white, I'm pasty, I'm translucent, but my family is of gaelic origin and the women in my family especially have a passed down tradition in our pagan practices called Fae Loc, (i don't know how to spell it properly), or faery hair. To explain where it specifically comes from: faery tales say that faeries leave tangles and knots in your hair when they visit or speak. So we let our hair knot or put them in locs as part of our practice. This is something that's been being done in our family for a very very long time. Are you going to tell me that because of the color of my skin i cannot participate in an old family practice that ties me to my great great great grandmother? Note: while i am the color is powdered sugar, i actually have a curl pattern to my hair, I've never bothered to pay attention to that letter/number chart about hair texture, but my hair isn't straight. Not that it actually matters, bc any hair if left to do it's own thing with mat together in a big mass on the back of the head, and i do mean all hair, flat as a board and super tiny coils included. Now coily hair will do it easier and quicker, but all hair does it.
I recently started my locs and am so in love with them. I feel more confident with them. I had an absolutely beautiful young black woman come up to me the other day and her hair was beautiful and straight. She told me she loved my hair and said she didn't have the confidence to start her locs and she always wanted them. She said she thought I had so much confidence to wear them and thought I was an absolute beautiful soul for going with my heart after I gave her my story. 8 years ago my mother passed away. She was in cosmology school and I asked her to do locs for me when she graduated. Unfortunately she passed away before graduation. I put my locs in with all of her hair tools to honor my mother and I'm so glad I did. Every time I see them in a window or run my hands across them I feel closer to my mom. I miss her and it was my way of telling her and myself that even though she's gone she's still with me.
It actually does matter because one race is being told that their hair is unprofessional even dirty but for the other race it’s okay and they’re allowed to embrace it like y’all need to be fr.
@@momentforlife4627 bro it just doesn’t matter weather your black white asian Hispanic whatever people still thinks it dirty I’m black my mom also black said to cut them out she said they looked raggedy and someone shouldn’t be harassed like that guy for the style his hair is in
@@balocke2063 you and your mom are so uneducated and I hate that for the both of you honestly. I’m sorry that your mom hates her blackness so much that she would project that same energy onto her child. Self hatred is a killer and you and your mother fell victim to it god bless
yeah i started a chineese restaurant and i am black its just a restaurant for the love of god and i sold my own shoes i made shoes using the nike logo its just a logo for the love of god
@@MrBreast.OfficiaI Chinese is a specific race, Nike is a specific company. Black isn't a specific race, it's a skin color. Plenty of prominently black societies don't use dreadlocks and plenty of prominently white ones do. Hair is hair, everyone has it, style it how you like.
@@spicyladjr3650 Chinese is not a race that's an ethnicity predominantly among Asian people. A lot of black people are a bit against it because when any other race does it its town but when we do our traditional hairstyles it's seen in a more negative way.
Divide and Conquer. They told each group what they "have/"own". Now each group will fight to protect that illusion of identity. Its the typical point fingers at each other and hate each other for no good reason. A lot of Governments, Military, and Uber Wealthy love seeing you all fight each other over an illusion they been casting over your eyes and soul for thousands of years. This cycle will not cease to end until we remove the veil. But, I have asked myself "why would we do that?". I think the answer might be due to the fact we don't want responsibility and accountability for all the ugly truths in the world. Once people finally see that truth, there will be no turning back. I also wonder what that might look like. Would it spiral into chaos for some, or would the many grit their teeth and take it head on. Its very complex and I haven't even mentioned a quarter of all of this. No single man or woman can do it. It will take the many to achieve.
The “ they” you are referring to are yts. It’s you guys who segregated yourself from black people and didn’t want anything to do with certain aspects of black culture such as jazz, rock n roll and hiphop music , streetwear aesthetic clothing, slangs, food. All of that were demonised by your people. But now suddenly y’all want to participate because you see it as cool and a trendy so you try to colonise it and rebrand it and when we call you out for it you guys are trying to act like some innocent victims talking about“ diVide AnD cOnquerRRRR” and “ wE aLl blEed Redddd” When it’s you guys who divided yourself, make it make sense.
I wear dread lock extensions and I’m not wearing them for a statement for any of those reasons, I wear them because I feel beautiful wearing them, I love you all ❤
My opinion, as a white dude growing up in the ghetto living in mostly black neighborhoods, my whole life I wear the hairstyles of that of my neighborhood. I have war, dreadlocks, cornrows, and other variations of breeds my entire life. Interesting thing is I’m a little older I’m 46 and we didn’t have the Internet. Nobody ever stepped to me and said I was doing something wrong but my real opinion is that I think, the hairstyles I wear are my culture my culture being the hood. There are plenty of people of color that are not from my culture. Maybe they should stop wearing my haircut that’s all I’m saying.
Almost every culture has picked up a thing or two from other cultures. The black community has definitely picked up from the white and vice versa. I'm black and I don't see how a white person on locs is a problem fr.
I agree with everything being said and I agree it's not just for black people. But lets me be clear, Egypt is in Africa, earlier named Kemet before changing the name to hide the fact that it is indeed African. Egypt is Africa and Africa is Egypt (Kemet) again, I am so sorry that happened to him.
I’m Italian, and I used to have an Afro (I grow one out every year or so, I just cut it) and no one seems to care, so why should people care if others wear dreads?
if you restrict a hair style only towards blacks, it’s discriminatory and defamatory, it is the same thing as what the black panthers did in the 60s. if you were black and you straightened your hair straight, it was seen offensive by other blacks. its the same equivalent as if you were white and you wear durags or listen to rap, its “cultural appropriation.” See! It doesn’t make any sense! Fashion and music is subjective and so does hairstyles.
“Dreadlocks have been under the ownership of many cultures, with images of locks in Hindu Vedic scriptures preceding their contemporary radical symbolism, and Indian holy men wearing locks long before the time of Rastafarian messiah King Hailie Selassie in the 1930s.” so yeah, im pretty sure black people arent the only ones that wear/are allowed to wear dreadlocks, its just a hairstyle!!!!!!!!!
Original Irish men were melanated people ... whenever people in modern day mentioned certain groups ie European, they dont realize that the original Europeans were melanated ...
My hair wants to lok up constantly. I find it hard to believe that nobody else has them. I am part Korean and very mixed with a lot of races, even tho I look mainly white.
I’m a white dude with dreads and I don’t mean it in any way for it to be disrespectful I have it bc it fits me it’s me and I ain’t cutting them for no body
also, appreciating black culture's hair style, and saying that it is not only theirs, is not a contradiction, as you can appreciate it and at the same time acknowledge they didn't create it. also i doubt the people he first saw it on care at all, as many rappers wear the hair and do not care what people do.
I am white and Nordic I have incredibly long dreadlocks because it's a cultural and religious significance for the Vikings. But I don't know why people are even arguing about dreadlocks because all of the black people I have met/ became friends with don't care it's just a hairstyle I don't get why people get so racist about it
Ima a melanated woman with real locs I don’t dread them so I don’t call them dread locs of 20 Yrs . When we stop wearing their hair like weaves and wigs and lashes then maybe they will stop wearing ours. Seriously how how dare we get sensitive when I see sisters wearing others people texture all THEE TIME make it make sense please some one.
We have African wig shops in my country where blonde wigs from Russia can be purchased. So black women wear white womens actual hair on their bald scalp....weird ...
I’m of Italian decent we dreaded our hair and I’m also part Slovak they dreaded as well. Why people make such a huge deal about hair and maintaining hair is beyond my understanding..
I wish people would understand the difference tho. I think It comes from comparisons being made and those of whiter cultures inserting themselves or comparing It to other cultures. When we loc our hair it looks way different. In most cases because of tighter coils black hair looks a bit more suited to the style. However it shoukd be noted that when we wear our traditional locs and braids it's viewed very negatively but when everyone else does it it's spiritual or trendy and usually only then is it seen as cultural
@@TheCreatedOnes i say traditional because type 4 hair is literally the most suitable for locking as the coils allow it to be achieved way easier wothout having to take alternative or comically elaborate processes.Even when left on its own braided or natural type 2 and 3hair just wont do what type 4 does. As a person with 4a hair it is nearly impossible for me to easily Freeform. Those loose at the roots , braided and tangled in the middle and ratty at the end braids you call dreadlocks aren't dreads
Sorry but tangled hair that requires you to do a whole bunch of stuff to make them look like locs are NOT locs. As black people our hair naturally locs. Furthermore various cultures that for a short period of time that wore locs is meaningless. Locs have ALWAYS been apart of black culture and worn by us for millennia.
Your locs are gorgeous. Period. And locs are tangled hair. Since EVERYONE'S hair will tangle if it's not combed and brushed its ridiculous to think it was just Black people were the only culture that had dreads.
I think its just a hairstyle that some people over think about... like people who say (oh dreads are a black hairstyle), like bruh... its just a damn hairstyle
im mixed. black and white. on the form i check the mixed race box. question for the mixed race out there, do you only choose to say your just black or just white aswell?
Black people just feel insulted when the ones that used to (or still are) discriminating their hair and locs now they want to we are them . But in reality that’s putting everyone in the same bag. Not all white people used to discriminate against locs ai it’s quite unfair the discrimination against white people with locs that never done anything racist or discriminatoriy on their life .
I got stuck in Costa Rica right before Covid and my hair is super long now. I’m white as shit. Nothing but respect. Every morning I wake up to it dreading. I kinda wanna let it go.
@@HexOmega3113 I was young and I asked my mother, she is white, and she said “just put black”. So ever since I’ve always just put black, as I got older I was always told that I’m passing but not white enough and white folks never really accepted me so I just kept doing it
If I was of African American descent and saw a white individual with dreadlocks, I would actually take that as a huge compliment and think of it as being really cool, but to each their own lol.
I'm a white person. And if I don't brush my hair, it naturally dreads. So.... yeah. And I don't have black or curly hair. It's normal white wavy hair. I'm picking out a massive dread right now
White folks hair naturally dreads up on its own by not touching it. Black folks hair afros up when left untouched. Who is culturally appropriating who?
Um. Dirty gross matted hair is not the same thing as purposely formed, well maintained dreads/locs. Way to miss the point and also equate bad hygiene with culture. Good Lord it's a bad look. 7:11 please for your own good read the entirety of the excerpt. It explains the difference between twisted locks of hair and straight up matted hair.
As someone who is a white woman wearing locs, I have received multiple d34th thr34ts, bullied beyond repair, and wished to be harmed or for my hair to fall out. It’s disgusting. Do you realize how racist that actually is? I wear my locs because I discovered my Celtic ancestry from my family historian and wanted to connect to my ancestral culture and I SHOULD be allowed to do that. I have been pushed to say things I have regretted, but it all stems from the bullying that was cast at me first. I understand this poor boy’s anger, but him and I both need to work on watching the way we react and speak with intelligence, because all it takes is one slip up and we are called culture vultures. Locs have so much meaning and belong to multiple different cultures and colors of people. We all should be able to wear them and appreciate them❤️
I’m white, I’ve always loved the way they look, like big old spider legs, but I’ve never had them before, I’ll buy a wig and wear it around the house from time to time to “experience” it, I don’t think it’s inappropriate too fully have them done, but at the same time I could see it being frowned upon
My problem is when i have dreads (im black) its looked frowned on and ppl look different and bring all types of stereotypes but when a white guy does is it’s culture its like it’s a part of them now
The issue is that black people having locs comes with tons of stereotypes and issues but as soon as a white person gets locs it turns into 90% of their personality and they spend the rest of their lives justifying a style that a lot of them didn’t really care for until very recently.
Near the end he’s right. The major present ties to the black community is Rastafari and Rasta people are like 1 percent of the population of Jamaica or Ethiopia
Let me get some dreads some armor and a battle axe and well teach whoever....they are not the only culture thats had dreads, Begin the throat singing, sacrifices to odin, and the raiding and pillaging were about to get norse in here.
I'm a white chick and I have dreads reason why is they look hott on a white chic but that is not why I got them I have ADHD I have issues with fidgeting and I always feel like I have to do something with my hands when I'm nervous, anxious, scared ,talking and other situations so there for I thought hell maybe having dreads rolling my hair would satisfy all my issues and calm my insanity down.... Well guess what It has... And I wouldn't care what anyone thinks it's my hair my body I do me not others their opinion does not matter
I have matloccs, I’m white, super Irish to be specific. I’ve had them for over 8 years now. It’s the bottom half of my hair not my whole head. I did it because my hair kept matting and I was sick of fighting it every day so i just took care of it and let it locc. Here I am 8 years later. I never meant it to be offensive or if im being honest I didn’t consider culture. I was just doing my hair, it didn’t have more meaning than that. It still doesn’t. I don’t feel strongly about them as a political statement, they don’t mean anything more than how I like to have my hair. I love them, and I don’t want to get rid of them, but I also don’t want to be rude or offensive
"Doing you" as many of us say, is not offensive at all, it's easy to tell who is engaging in cultural appropriation by observing the total package, the way a person's locs are styled, their vernacular, the way they dress, and their mannerisms will all clue intelligent people in, as to whether a person is appropriating another culture or not or just doing a certain thing they like. However you can never please everyone and some people will always be stupid. That's life. The fellow in the video went all wrong by trying to invalidate others in order to validate himself. As long as you don't do silly stuff like that, you're good. Enjoy your hair and your life.
Liberals really should study history, they would be amazed at what the past can reveal. The braiding of hair exists in almost every culture, it is not specific to africa.
They can mean different things for everyone. But the spiritual idea is unfortunately a stereotype that gets tied to many people with locs and it's very tiring to keep hearing this.
@@josh4450 you'd be surprised. Throughout human civilization, different cultures believed that hair worked as an antenna into the universe and that it would tie you closer spiritually to the universe or God. You'd be surprised what people believe about hair. But this is a stereotype that is applied to people with locs. Alot of new age people think that locc'd folks are so earthy, spiritual... in tune with the world, and that is not the case for many people with locs. I literally seen a RUclips video where a girl was talking about how she wasn't connected to herself or the universe as much, because her color-treated locs were experiencing breakage at the ends!
i have very long straight reddish hair and if i skip just one day of combing, i can already see how it forms sections and wants to form together. so how is that really an issue? if i just wouldn't comb it, i'd get locs. that implies a natural pattern, one that happens to everybody. i often thought about getting freeforms, but i also wouldn't want to deal with this crap. all hair locks up in the end and middle ages peasants all had tangled hair. you don't even need the dumb viking argument.
I want my normal hairstyle but with like 5 or six dreads coming down across my face. And idgaf if it’s cultural appropriation cuz I’m outright trying to imitate chief Sosa.
As a white guy with locs i wanted them from a young age when I saw people like Johnathan Davis and the lead singer of POD i didn't loc my hair till a couple of years ago and i did it because 1 i liked the style 2 i was tired of combs breaking in my thick ass hair at the end of the day it's a hair style and especially in America were a nation with blended cultures so naturally people will adopt things from other peoples culture
Been Studying and Thinking of locs for YEARS, My 3A curls are usually tangled, super high maintenance and loc and matte on their own. While I admire most cultures (I love people) I would be acting on appreciation and honor. And also respecting my journey with my hair and life struggles. Not 💯 on all of my ancestors, though I am Greatly aware of the possibilities of the horrors that may have been connected, I am also aware that there was a lot of intermixing among races even in the last 200+ years, with that said I find that even though those terms may not have always been willingly. I feel strongly connected to my European/Slovak/Native and possibly African. I know that During the trails of tears.. Natives took black slaves and claimed them as family, "gave them" freedom, then essentially booted African and Native mixes out. These facts. Often remind me of how interconnected a lot of us could be. So much in history is trying to be erased. So Appreciation and Honor all the way.
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Locked hair has been worn by basically every ethnic group at some point in history. The Celts did it, Buddhist monks have been doing it for hundreds of years, you name it. No one group has any more right to it than any other.
I think white people can wear it, its just they gotta be able to pull it off. Like, some black people can get dreads but they dont look good in it (idk how to explain)
The vikings did this shit before. I'm irish and scottish. I naturally grow an afro and I'm thinkin about dreading it.
you get locs even when you sleep, the religious aspect of it belongs to the children of Israel (who have a covenant with the God who CREATED 9AEL) the sun (RAH) and the Moon (ISIS) not is a sun or moon God as the Vatican christianity and islam link to with their calendars, judaism is a covenant not a religion, religio is a latin ROMAN word, means alliance with eh gods who where hybrid demons of lilith and Samael (SATAN) they genetically started modifying humans once establishing pyramids around the world, God then told Noah to tell everyone 7 laws can by pass this genetic disorder (we confirmed today is the PSYCHOPATH GENE) by keep 7 laws they can by pass it, but after the flood people who had no more demonic slave monsters pretending to be sun and moon gods still seeked their guidance, worshiping things so it got to the point where Israelites refused to and became slaves in Egypt where the pharoah refused to let them go, Moses got them out with God and told the children of Israel they where the chosen for resisting paganism, but they where been tested to see who activated this genetic disorder, so people where forced to wait until those with the psychopath gene started worshiping a golden cow and then Moses killed them as ordered.
Today the Romane Empire adopted a false messiah called Jesus, same religio religion same calendar means alliance with these false gods, Hitler himself learned from he pope that the Vatican believed germans where a atlantean race, one of the races God flooded , some where good some where bad but its what it is, they had infested the earth to be gods by making humans slaves, it was the plan from the start in eden when they got Adam to eat from the tree of a mortal world, once they had Adam in the world lilith his ex later demon stile his sperm, created Lilian, married her to Cane, they had Enoch and realised all souls are pure, enoch was good, so satan then created pyramids to enter the world through as the Egyptian books of the dead show and then genetically modified humans provoking gods wrath and the flood.
The Hair locs are a specific selected from the 12 tribes to symbolise unity, one love, they where singer picked nay Moses, later natherites lived in nazereth,, never cut their hair, drink alcohol and a few other things which requires a vow which can only be pulled at a temple, so today if one takes this vow its a life vow,
but its envy when they see a privileged person with them as If its a poor thang,
1-you can have natural locs,
2-you can wick natural locs
3-you can add extensions as well to no locs, most African Americans do this to have variety. is this privileged, only for blacks allowed yes,
Bob Marly marginalized the style, cushioning a faith and music for freedom love and unity,
Lenny Kravitz who at the time liked women and into fashion has zero spiritual reasons for the locs, his father white, mother black, yet he is not recognised by the black community, comments like as soon as he speaks you clearly hear a white man, he aint a brotha, etc etc, yet Lenny himself envies white people with hair locs cause he wants to be in the centre of the stage, his whole band all rather have Globetrotters hair styled afros and pose like charlies angels silhouettes in the background, people recently emerged saying he did not even write some of his songs and he ripped them off from neighbours at rehearsal studios and maybe its true but today he speaks about spirituality, still has no clue what the rasta faith means to Rastas, maybe never even heard of the oath nazarite's made as jews or through Haili Selasi, God does not need slaves or created mankind to serve him, satan messed with man genetics and did this as you can find in the Egyptian books of the dead and pyramids, are black people linked to hybrid ddemons with dog heads in Egypt lilith created using Adams sperm? seriously, cause all the mummies had EUROPEES DNA, all of them, they did not find one that was tested to contain asian south asian (black) DNA.
I say everyone should have locs
@@BrendanH99_ Viking locs has been largely debunked. It's not about any supremacist BS (National Socialists co-opted Viking mythology, ironically enough), it's just that the long hair of Viking men was combed and braided like Native males. Letting it matte/lock was not really a Norse thing.
Im a white guy, i've had dreads for 13ish years. I've met/known many black people over the years...From Uganda, Somalia, Kenya AND Jamaica. Over that time, I have never had anyone get upset about the hair on my head...except for white middle-class women. I am not trying to be an edgelord, that is my experience....
And cops lol I'm kind of just joking but I've had locs for 9 years now they go to my waist. I also have a lot of tattoos and piercings, I'm 37 years old as well and I have never had anyone be upset with me about it Bc I take such good care of them. everyone is usually asking me if they are fake or if I'm wearing one of those dreadlock hats in the winter 😅 I did have a lady forcibly ask me to take my hat off, then she was like "oookay! That's awesome, it looks good on you" lol but cops always think I have drugs on me and I've been pulled over way more times than when I didn't and it's funny bc I don't do drugs, smoke weed or even drink any more...when I did all that without locs 😂 anyway, I've asked my black friends, random people from Africa, Ethiopia, Jamaica...etc. if it offends them and all of them has said no. I would never want to purposely offend anyone, but I do know that I've loved them since I was young just didn't have the type of job that would allow me to have long locs. Now I'm a tattoo artist and I am "allowed" to look however I want..(which I think is bullshit) but that's beside the point. I haven't gotten any hate to my face, I just see it all over the internet.
@@krystamc6976 lol yep, and cops. I should stress too that ive met many middle class white women both with dreads/locks or who didnt care....but thats the only group thats vocalised an issue directly too me...im sure theres many others that judge without comment!
Yea ask yourself why your middle class white women don’t like locs on you..BC ITS NOT FOR YOU OR YOUR HAIR TEXTURE you bafon 😭you look like a 1970s peace sign hippy while locs actually COMPLIMENT black peoples skin and hair texture. Embrace your straight hair due lol
Same here!
I've experience one Jamaican guy who had a problem with with having locs 😂
Im white, ive had dreadlocks for 25 years. Growing up around east london in the 80s and 90s, reggae soundsystem culture is a big part of everyones youth from these ends, the white punks and black rasta grew up together sharing everything and loving one another, from it was born raving, drum and bass, dub step, grime, ska music, lovers rock. It was a melting pot of cultures and artisic flow. Some rasta turned punk, some punk turned rasta. Many white actually had hair dreaded by their mates black Jamaican mums. It aslo become a spiritual hair cut in British festival culture way back in the 70s.
Its not the dread its the head.
We bleed the same and have a heart.
I heard about the punks and Rasta. I thought it was a myth
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@sinnerr40 it's no myth, true story
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Dreadlocks are not specifically black culture, I’m Native American and my ancestors had dreadlocks if anyone tries to tell you that dreadlocks come from a specific culture it is completely untrue
thats true, the thing is though Dreads are not black culture. Ancient Egypt, India and Greece is where most people believe dreads originated from and none of these places were ever black.
true, two thousand years or so ago, the Romans wrote that the celts "wore snakes for hair" Tribes in Germania had similar features because it is the natural state,
I thought they were called Dutch braids? Not "dark-skin-only-hairstyle"
Well depends on the type usually black dreads are more neat looking I suppose because the ends on white people's dreads straighten out so they look like noodles before there cooked, and black people usually get box braids, or two strand twist, or mohawk dreads like the end result is just different for the different hair types@@duckonquack95
It’s all subjective, touchy to you, simple hair style to others. People have every right to use their hair how they like.
Culture vultures more like, was white people wanting dreads while hanging us from treez 🫠
Exactly, it's a hair style. You can't gate keep a style
@@jessev2295 Europe have plenty of traditional hairstyles, why don’t you guys wear those hairstyles instead of ours? Serious question.
@@strawberry-jq9fubecause they like to wear dreadlocks? besides what makes you think you can own a hairstyle? serious question.
@@moro8274Locks aren’t part of European people, never have. You guys have other white hairstyles you can do.
I'm black and to be honest, it doesn't matter which race ethnicity has dreadlocks.
Fuck it. Forget about it.
My ancestors are Celtic!!! Thousands of years ago, us white as sand people “locked” our hair.
No race or culture and make claim on hairstyles.
Indigenous people wore their hair in braids. Well so did the people of Norway. Who’s being racist? The indigenous culture or the Norwegians????
The truth is, no one.
It’s a hair style. I love my hair locked. I loved my hair braided, I’ve had cornrows too.
Nah... Norwegians appreciate clean combed hair...not filthy shitlocks
Oh my GOD, BRAIDS ARE NOT LOCS
Who said they were?
And the guy above clearly doesn't know how evolution works or how how we as a species developed. I love how you had to say "white mutation" instead of recognizing how melanin works.
@@Pfpfpfpfpf2020 OMG the word loc is an English word rooted in ancient German and Indo-European so white people have been wearing locs for thousands of years.
I’m a black woman and with locs if people studied history they would see all race of people wore dreads before we were all born stuff history geesh black women lest stop wearing straight wigs that don’t match ur texture
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That's false. Many cultures have had tangled hair yes but not locs. Fact is our hair naturally forms locs. Look at freeform. Show me a white person that has hair that naturally does that. Every other culture has had to artificially emulate that look
@Elektrikkiss for real? C'mon.. Serious. ALL hair will loc after a while...how fast? Depends on hair type. I have a friend...he's white and his hair is thick and curly. He has natural afro hair (type).
ALL hair will lock. Has nothing to do with skin color. It's about hair type. And yes.. Black peoples hair type will loc faster most of the time. Everyone can get freeform locs. It will take longer for some (white colored people) with another hair type. Even my dog's hair will lock. Don't know if he's white, black or orange🤔. Saying white peoples hair can't lock naturally is rediculous. Even free-form. Did you ever had long hair? Are you white... It will loc for sure. Do with your hair what you want. Even if you use crochet hooks for it. Such debates are useless. I have dreads but did it by lock and twist, back combing, crochet hooks. 7 months in and they're getting good. I'm not there yet. For free-form.... I could have done that.. But I don't have the patience. 1 year for getting good looking locs is long enough for me. If people want to avoid me for my locs... Perfect to me. I don't want to deal with such shallow minded people. No matter their skin color. There's enough polarization and hate. If people starting hating for hair styles 🙈. This world is lost.
@@Followyourpassions all hair does not loc. There are various processes you have to do to get European hair to loc. Look at the thousands of white RUclipsrs who got dreads crying about there hair not locing or how difficult it is to keep it loc'ed you are lying out your as#. Not white person has 4c black hair which is completely unique to black people which is scientific fact. Please stop the lies! Your probably a desperate yt' person trying to justify your culture vulture behaviour. Black people do not have to do ANYTHING to our hair for it to loc on itself. Your hair will look a tangled mess but it will not look like locs without you manipulating it into locing. Locs have been apart of black culture for a decade and still ARE. You are a culture vulture and should be ashamed of yourself.
@@Followyourpassions all hair does not loc. White hair will tangle. You have to do everything in your power to make your hair look like locs.
Mummies with completely well preserved, - what are now called dreadlocks - have been found in Peru. Those mummies are approximately 1500 years old. This should make it quite clear: Braids and ' dreadlocks ' have originated INDEPENDENTLY throughout the history of mankind.
As a black dude i dont get how people get so mad at other peoples hair like stop being racist
ONGGGGGGGGGG -white person lmfao
EXACTLY DUDE
For real it’s social media and toxic people that’s runnier this young man’s mind pray for him
If people are happy inside they love another what shows how many arent....broken and empty inside so you get hate, negativity, double standards, violent, talk about others, jealousy, frustrations etc.....
Better to walk alone so you have more strength, power, happyness, peace, time and space.....
People are programmed robot slaves dont know who they are....sad
Appreciate that dude, being a white guy, I have other white people tell me “you must make black people mad” “isn’t it offensive?” I reply with “Jesus more then likely had dreads, he didn’t have a hair brush”
I just wanna say that I’m a white dude with 4 year old freeform locs and I’ve never had any negative feedback, the only feedback I’ve gotten are compliments from black people.
gimme ur insta pls show em
Retwist before it get wick
My point lol. Its a form of friendship if anything at all but hair. But the power is so scared of us people getting along that they try to push this shit on us. Hopefully it just brings us closer together :)
Same people they would kill us after church and hang us for fun 🫠
If anybody ever says anything to you bro just tell them that white people don’t complain about black chicks with fake straight blonde and red wigs . Even when guys dye their dreads or hair blonde and red nobody complains. It’s a superiority complex and a coping mechanism because they don’t like their own life. Just know real ones support you to do whatever you want
ive been growing and cutting my sets of dreads since i was 12. i am almost 40 and still cannot say goodbye to the lifestyle. I dont care what race you are, or what hair type you have, if you leave it alone, stop using conditioner and use a residue free shampoo your hair will naturally mat with enough time, its natural to hair, ALL hair
Other earliest known possible depictions of dreadlocks date back as far as 1600-1500 BCE in the Minoan Civilization, 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.
So, this is my problem. I am white, I'm pasty, I'm translucent, but my family is of gaelic origin and the women in my family especially have a passed down tradition in our pagan practices called Fae Loc, (i don't know how to spell it properly), or faery hair. To explain where it specifically comes from: faery tales say that faeries leave tangles and knots in your hair when they visit or speak. So we let our hair knot or put them in locs as part of our practice. This is something that's been being done in our family for a very very long time. Are you going to tell me that because of the color of my skin i cannot participate in an old family practice that ties me to my great great great grandmother?
Note: while i am the color is powdered sugar, i actually have a curl pattern to my hair, I've never bothered to pay attention to that letter/number chart about hair texture, but my hair isn't straight. Not that it actually matters, bc any hair if left to do it's own thing with mat together in a big mass on the back of the head, and i do mean all hair, flat as a board and super tiny coils included. Now coily hair will do it easier and quicker, but all hair does it.
Nothing wrong with white people with locs. just hair
Not just hair, when black people have it it’s dirty and unprofessional but when white people have it it’s stylish
Until it's gingers getting mad
I recently started my locs and am so in love with them. I feel more confident with them. I had an absolutely beautiful young black woman come up to me the other day and her hair was beautiful and straight. She told me she loved my hair and said she didn't have the confidence to start her locs and she always wanted them. She said she thought I had so much confidence to wear them and thought I was an absolute beautiful soul for going with my heart after I gave her my story. 8 years ago my mother passed away. She was in cosmology school and I asked her to do locs for me when she graduated. Unfortunately she passed away before graduation. I put my locs in with all of her hair tools to honor my mother and I'm so glad I did. Every time I see them in a window or run my hands across them I feel closer to my mom. I miss her and it was my way of telling her and myself that even though she's gone she's still with me.
she always with you ever and ever
To be honest I don’t think it matters hairstyle what ever race you are
It actually does matter because one race is being told that their hair is unprofessional even dirty but for the other race it’s okay and they’re allowed to embrace it like y’all need to be fr.
@@momentforlife4627 bro it just doesn’t matter weather your black white asian Hispanic whatever people still thinks it dirty I’m black my mom also black said to cut them out she said they looked raggedy and someone shouldn’t be harassed like that guy for the style his hair is in
@@balocke2063 you and your mom are so uneducated and I hate that for the both of you honestly. I’m sorry that your mom hates her blackness so much that she would project that same energy onto her child. Self hatred is a killer and you and your mother fell victim to it god bless
Me personally I'm white and I also want dreads
@@tucy399 didn’t ask..
i had straight hair before i lived in a tent in the rocky mountains for a year, my hair dreaded naturally, made the next year alot nicer in the cold
He was kind of all over the place to be honest. I sort of had a hard time following him. You’re right, he did contradict himself at one point.
It’s hair lol… let people do what they want . It’s not culture appropriation, it’s hair for the love of god .
yeah i started a chineese restaurant and i am black its just a restaurant for the love of god
and i sold my own shoes i made shoes using the nike logo its just a logo for the love of god
@@MrBreast.OfficiaI Chinese is a specific race, Nike is a specific company. Black isn't a specific race, it's a skin color.
Plenty of prominently black societies don't use dreadlocks and plenty of prominently white ones do.
Hair is hair, everyone has it, style it how you like.
@@MrBreast.OfficiaI except the Nike logo is trademarked, youngster. There's a big difference..
@@spicyladjr3650 Chinese is not a race that's an ethnicity predominantly among Asian people. A lot of black people are a bit against it because when any other race does it its town but when we do our traditional hairstyles it's seen in a more negative way.
@@spicyladjr3650chinese isn’t a race buddy
Divide and Conquer. They told each group what they "have/"own". Now each group will fight to protect that illusion of identity. Its the typical point fingers at each other and hate each other for no good reason. A lot of Governments, Military, and Uber Wealthy love seeing you all fight each other over an illusion they been casting over your eyes and soul for thousands of years. This cycle will not cease to end until we remove the veil. But, I have asked myself "why would we do that?". I think the answer might be due to the fact we don't want responsibility and accountability for all the ugly truths in the world. Once people finally see that truth, there will be no turning back. I also wonder what that might look like. Would it spiral into chaos for some, or would the many grit their teeth and take it head on. Its very complex and I haven't even mentioned a quarter of all of this. No single man or woman can do it. It will take the many to achieve.
yep exactly. If we are divided we are too busy to see the actual enemy and unite against them.
@@GingeRenee You get it!
The “ they” you are referring to are yts. It’s you guys who segregated yourself from black people and didn’t want anything to do with certain aspects of black culture such as jazz, rock n roll and hiphop music , streetwear aesthetic clothing, slangs, food. All of that were demonised by your people. But now suddenly y’all want to participate because you see it as cool and a trendy so you try to colonise it and rebrand it and when we call you out for it you guys are trying to act like some innocent victims talking about“ diVide AnD cOnquerRRRR” and “ wE aLl blEed Redddd” When it’s you guys who divided yourself, make it make sense.
@@strawberry-jq9fuyou’re the problem educate yourself
@@tior598truth hurts x
I wear dread lock extensions and I’m not wearing them for a statement for any of those reasons, I wear them because I feel beautiful wearing them, I love you all ❤
Bro John Davis is the reason I want dreadlocks, his just look so hood
My opinion, as a white dude growing up in the ghetto living in mostly black neighborhoods, my whole life I wear the hairstyles of that of my neighborhood. I have war, dreadlocks, cornrows, and other variations of breeds my entire life. Interesting thing is I’m a little older I’m 46 and we didn’t have the Internet. Nobody ever stepped to me and said I was doing something wrong but my real opinion is that I think, the hairstyles I wear are my culture my culture being the hood. There are plenty of people of color that are not from my culture. Maybe they should stop wearing my haircut that’s all I’m saying.
What do you mean your haircut?
@@darriasutton5588 braids, French braids, cornrows, etc.
Almost every culture has picked up a thing or two from other cultures. The black community has definitely picked up from the white and vice versa. I'm black and I don't see how a white person on locs is a problem fr.
Vikings had dreadlocks anyone who doesn't brush their hair can have dreads
I agree with everything being said and I agree it's not just for black people. But lets me be clear, Egypt is in Africa, earlier named Kemet before changing the name to hide the fact that it is indeed African. Egypt is Africa and Africa is Egypt (Kemet) again, I am so sorry that happened to him.
I’m Italian, and I used to have an Afro (I grow one out every year or so, I just cut it) and no one seems to care, so why should people care if others wear dreads?
The idea that it's only a black tradition is the faux pas.
Vikings had dreads way back when.
Anyone with hair on their heads can have any hairstyles they want, Whities wear your dead’s proudly
if you restrict a hair style only towards blacks, it’s discriminatory and defamatory, it is the same thing as what the black panthers did in the 60s. if you were black and you straightened your hair straight, it was seen offensive by other blacks.
its the same equivalent as if you were white and you wear durags or listen to rap, its “cultural appropriation.” See! It doesn’t make any sense! Fashion and music is subjective and so does hairstyles.
“Dreadlocks have been under the ownership of many cultures, with images of locks in Hindu Vedic scriptures preceding their contemporary radical symbolism, and Indian holy men wearing locks long before the time of Rastafarian messiah King Hailie Selassie in the 1930s.” so yeah, im pretty sure black people arent the only ones that wear/are allowed to wear dreadlocks, its just a hairstyle!!!!!!!!!
Its your hair do what you want, you cant monopolize a hairstyle get over it😂
But what about dingle berries? What culture claims them?
Original Irish men were melanated people ... whenever people in modern day mentioned certain groups ie European, they dont realize that the original Europeans were melanated ...
My hair wants to lok up constantly. I find it hard to believe that nobody else has them. I am part Korean and very mixed with a lot of races, even tho I look mainly white.
Thts why it wants to lock your of ethnic decent
I guess so. I sure fight with them lol
I’m a white dude with dreads and I don’t mean it in any way for it to be disrespectful I have it bc it fits me it’s me and I ain’t cutting them for no body
Thank you so much for reading the history. It is part of all kinds of cultures throughout the world. Deal with it internet.
also, appreciating black culture's hair style, and saying that it is not only theirs, is not a contradiction, as you can appreciate it and at the same time acknowledge they didn't create it. also i doubt the people he first saw it on care at all, as many rappers wear the hair and do not care what people do.
I am white and Nordic I have incredibly long dreadlocks because it's a cultural and religious significance for the Vikings. But I don't know why people are even arguing about dreadlocks because all of the black people I have met/ became friends with don't care it's just a hairstyle I don't get why people get so racist about it
Ima a melanated woman with real locs I don’t dread them so I don’t call them dread locs of 20 Yrs . When we stop wearing their hair like weaves and wigs and lashes then maybe they will stop wearing ours. Seriously how how dare we get sensitive when I see sisters wearing others people texture all THEE TIME make it make sense please some one.
Sheress out here talkin 🗣️
I see ur point about weaves but lashes? 🙄
We have African wig shops in my country where blonde wigs from Russia can be purchased. So black women wear white womens actual hair on their bald scalp....weird ...
I’m of Italian decent we dreaded our hair and I’m also part Slovak they dreaded as well.
Why people make such a huge deal about hair and maintaining hair is beyond my understanding..
I wish people would understand the difference tho. I think It comes from comparisons being made and those of whiter cultures inserting themselves or comparing It to other cultures. When we loc our hair it looks way different. In most cases because of tighter coils black hair looks a bit more suited to the style.
However it shoukd be noted that when we wear our traditional locs and braids it's viewed very negatively but when everyone else does it it's spiritual or trendy and usually only then is it seen as cultural
@@TheCreatedOnes i say traditional because type 4 hair is literally the most suitable for locking as the coils allow it to be achieved way easier wothout having to take alternative or comically elaborate processes.Even when left on its own braided or natural type 2 and 3hair just wont do what type 4 does. As a person with 4a hair it is nearly impossible for me to easily Freeform. Those loose at the roots , braided and tangled in the middle and ratty at the end braids you call dreadlocks aren't dreads
Maybe because your people killed mine because of what they looked like now you want my hairstyle 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Cookie-xy7hkthankyou!
Sorry but tangled hair that requires you to do a whole bunch of stuff to make them look like locs are NOT locs. As black people our hair naturally locs. Furthermore various cultures that for a short period of time that wore locs is meaningless. Locs have ALWAYS been apart of black culture and worn by us for millennia.
Your locs are gorgeous. Period. And locs are tangled hair. Since EVERYONE'S hair will tangle if it's not combed and brushed its ridiculous to think it was just Black people were the only culture that had dreads.
I think its just a hairstyle that some people over think about... like people who say (oh dreads are a black hairstyle), like bruh... its just a damn hairstyle
cant dreads like form from matting to?
im mixed. black and white. on the form i check the mixed race box. question for the mixed race out there, do you only choose to say your just black or just white aswell?
My kids choose mixed, other, or both. They are offended if you ignore the race of one of their parents.
Black people just feel insulted when the ones that used to (or still are) discriminating their hair and locs now they want to we are them . But in reality that’s putting everyone in the same bag. Not all white people used to discriminate against locs ai it’s quite unfair the discrimination against white people with locs that never done anything racist or discriminatoriy on their life .
I got stuck in Costa Rica right before Covid and my hair is super long now. I’m white as shit. Nothing but respect. Every morning I wake up to it dreading. I kinda wanna let it go.
My locs started when I was in jail with no brush and only state soap to wash my hair. There was no "appropriation" about it. It just happened
I’m mixed too and I always put black if they don’t have a mixed race option
Why?
Just curious not antagonistic.
@@HexOmega3113 I was young and I asked my mother, she is white, and she said “just put black”. So ever since I’ve always just put black, as I got older I was always told that I’m passing but not white enough and white folks never really accepted me so I just kept doing it
If I was of African American descent and saw a white individual with dreadlocks, I would actually take that as a huge compliment and think of it as being really cool, but to each their own lol.
See that's the thing tho.. people would rather choose hate, rather than love... To tear someone down, not lift them up.
I'm a white person. And if I don't brush my hair, it naturally dreads. So.... yeah. And I don't have black or curly hair. It's normal white wavy hair. I'm picking out a massive dread right now
It's hair, get over yourself people
White folks hair naturally dreads up on its own by not touching it. Black folks hair afros up when left untouched. Who is culturally appropriating who?
Bro ngl You’re on to nothing bro I get your point though everyone should have their own individuality lol
Um. Dirty gross matted hair is not the same thing as purposely formed, well maintained dreads/locs. Way to miss the point and also equate bad hygiene with culture. Good Lord it's a bad look.
7:11 please for your own good read the entirety of the excerpt. It explains the difference between twisted locks of hair and straight up matted hair.
As someone who is a white woman wearing locs, I have received multiple d34th thr34ts, bullied beyond repair, and wished to be harmed or for my hair to fall out. It’s disgusting. Do you realize how racist that actually is? I wear my locs because I discovered my Celtic ancestry from my family historian and wanted to connect to my ancestral culture and I SHOULD be allowed to do that. I have been pushed to say things I have regretted, but it all stems from the bullying that was cast at me first. I understand this poor boy’s anger, but him and I both need to work on watching the way we react and speak with intelligence, because all it takes is one slip up and we are called culture vultures. Locs have so much meaning and belong to multiple different cultures and colors of people. We all should be able to wear them and appreciate them❤️
Sounds a little bit made up🤷♂️
Just put your hair in a nice Dutch braid...like Hitler wanted..
me when I lie :
I’ve had 99% positive feedback on my dreads. I love them. I’ll definitely be wearing them however long I decide. Either way. ❤️
your shit look dirty a lil
😂😂😂
I’m the 1%
Okay… Still doesn’t change how I feel. 😂
@@kendra9325 go cut them shits rn
What's really confusing it's when African American women wear long straight blonde hair 🤔 who argue against this
Uncombed hair will loc up no matter what your skin colour is.
Vikings had dreads and braids. Vikings were white. It's not just a black culture thing.
I’m white, I’ve always loved the way they look, like big old spider legs, but I’ve never had them before, I’ll buy a wig and wear it around the house from time to time to “experience” it, I don’t think it’s inappropriate too fully have them done, but at the same time I could see it being frowned upon
My problem is when i have dreads (im black) its looked frowned on and ppl look different and bring all types of stereotypes but when a white guy does is it’s culture its like it’s a part of them now
Those people should go back in time to prevent Vikings from using them.
thinking about getting dreads, should i tho? im black and white but i dont know i might have to many white features
Your hair = Your choice.
I’m white and kinda want dreads but I don’t want to get in trouble though
The Celtics called them 'Fairy locs".
The issue is that black people having locs comes with tons of stereotypes and issues but as soon as a white person gets locs it turns into 90% of their personality and they spend the rest of their lives justifying a style that a lot of them didn’t really care for until very recently.
Yeah it's not like white people with dreads don't have any stereotypes about them...
Exactly
all facts
Agreed
And they say white people been wearing dread locs but only want them since it's popular in black culture
Near the end he’s right. The major present ties to the black community is Rastafari and Rasta people are like 1 percent of the population of Jamaica or Ethiopia
Ain't nobody's fucken business what I do with my hair! You dig👌
Let me get some dreads some armor and a battle axe and well teach whoever....they are not the only culture thats had dreads, Begin the throat singing, sacrifices to odin, and the raiding and pillaging were about to get norse in here.
It's not cultural appropriation, it's cultural APPRECIATION!
It is considered cultural appropriation when they claim ownership of a culture that is not their own.
bro i'd love to get the keef dreads but im worried that my white ahh will get ton of hate
Its fine. White people definitely wore dreads prior to encountering african cultures.
Rip bray wyatt but he had amazing dreadlocks
I'm a white chick and I have dreads reason why is they look hott on a white chic but that is not why I got them I have ADHD I have issues with fidgeting and I always feel like I have to do something with my hands when I'm nervous, anxious, scared ,talking and other situations so there for I thought hell maybe having dreads rolling my hair would satisfy all my issues and calm my insanity down.... Well guess what It has... And I wouldn't care what anyone thinks it's my hair my body I do me not others their opinion does not matter
"Colored", "Viking"...🤔
Meanwhile Egyptians started dreadlocks.
At the end of the day they wanna like us but hate us at the same time
I've had locks for over 8 years as a white male and the most compliments I've ever got was from black Americans
I have matloccs, I’m white, super Irish to be specific. I’ve had them for over 8 years now. It’s the bottom half of my hair not my whole head. I did it because my hair kept matting and I was sick of fighting it every day so i just took care of it and let it locc. Here I am 8 years later. I never meant it to be offensive or if im being honest I didn’t consider culture. I was just doing my hair, it didn’t have more meaning than that. It still doesn’t. I don’t feel strongly about them as a political statement, they don’t mean anything more than how I like to have my hair. I love them, and I don’t want to get rid of them, but I also don’t want to be rude or offensive
"Doing you" as many of us say, is not offensive at all, it's easy to tell who is engaging in cultural appropriation by observing the total package, the way a person's locs are styled, their vernacular, the way they dress, and their mannerisms will all clue intelligent people in, as to whether a person is appropriating another culture or not or just doing a certain thing they like. However you can never please everyone and some people will always be stupid. That's life. The fellow in the video went all wrong by trying to invalidate others in order to validate himself. As long as you don't do silly stuff like that, you're good. Enjoy your hair and your life.
Liberals really should study history, they would be amazed at what the past can reveal. The braiding of hair exists in almost every culture, it is not specific to africa.
I’m Celtic with Natural American Heritage and I love my locs. I think all locs are beautiful.
didnt vikings start rock dreads 400 ad?
Ask them.
What do you think of vikings having dread locks🤔
I think it’s just fine locs are more of a spiritual thing to me
They can mean different things for everyone. But the spiritual idea is unfortunately a stereotype that gets tied to many people with locs and it's very tiring to keep hearing this.
@@Penelope416 word right since when was hair spiritual that’s jus a excuse
@@josh4450 you'd be surprised. Throughout human civilization, different cultures believed that hair worked as an antenna into the universe and that it would tie you closer spiritually to the universe or God. You'd be surprised what people believe about hair.
But this is a stereotype that is applied to people with locs. Alot of new age people think that locc'd folks are so earthy, spiritual... in tune with the world, and that is not the case for many people with locs.
I literally seen a RUclips video where a girl was talking about how she wasn't connected to herself or the universe as much, because her color-treated locs were experiencing breakage at the ends!
@@Penelope416 😂😂😂😂 man people are something else these days
Nah it’s African
All hair locks therefore dreadlocks belong to everyone!
Anyone saying cultural appropriation is a fn CLOWN 🤣
I want dread locks!
But, if I cannot have dread locks, then my black wife cannot straighten her hair.
Just saying 😂
i'm white and my hair naturally dreads . i think bc it's very thick .
i have very long straight reddish hair and if i skip just one day of combing, i can already see how it forms sections and wants to form together. so how is that really an issue? if i just wouldn't comb it, i'd get locs. that implies a natural pattern, one that happens to everybody. i often thought about getting freeforms, but i also wouldn't want to deal with this crap. all hair locks up in the end and middle ages peasants all had tangled hair. you don't even need the dumb viking argument.
It depends If you can rock the style or not, It doesnt matter if you're black nor white If you look good with em ru good
Black woman here✌🏾 Locs are symbolic of going back to nature. Being natural and organic.
This is 100% gaptaincrunch
I’m white now would it be wrong to get dreads js bc I like em?
I love dread locs so much
I want my normal hairstyle but with like 5 or six dreads coming down across my face. And idgaf if it’s cultural appropriation cuz I’m outright trying to imitate chief Sosa.
Son dreadlocks been around before Christ was even born
As a white guy with locs i wanted them from a young age when I saw people like Johnathan Davis and the lead singer of POD i didn't loc my hair till a couple of years ago and i did it because 1 i liked the style 2 i was tired of combs breaking in my thick ass hair at the end of the day it's a hair style and especially in America were a nation with blended cultures so naturally people will adopt things from other peoples culture
Been Studying and Thinking of locs for YEARS, My 3A curls are usually tangled, super high maintenance and loc and matte on their own. While I admire most cultures (I love people) I would be acting on appreciation and honor. And also respecting my journey with my hair and life struggles.
Not 💯 on all of my ancestors, though I am Greatly aware of the possibilities of the horrors that may have been connected, I am also aware that there was a lot of intermixing among races even in the last 200+ years, with that said I find that even though those terms may not have always been willingly.
I feel strongly connected to my European/Slovak/Native and possibly African. I know that During the trails of tears.. Natives took black slaves and claimed them as family, "gave them" freedom, then essentially booted African and Native mixes out.
These facts. Often remind me of how interconnected a lot of us could be.
So much in history is trying to be erased.
So Appreciation and Honor all the way.
I was expecting the comments to be racist against white people who wear dreads but this is a refreshing thing to see from commenters.