jxbx
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The easiest way to dread is to let it go. The hardest way to dread is to let it go.
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Post by jxbx on Mar 29, 2016 22:08:27 GMT
Over the decades, I've had an number of conversations and confrontations about my locks, both positive and negative, but I've yet to run into a "Cultural Appropriation" advocate. Anyhow, if I were the dread in the video...I would have just walked without saying anything...maybe a wave and a smile...hehe.
Thought college was suppose to teach us how to break down the barriers between us, in this case it looks like she's trying to build them back up. Sad really.
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Post by acidburn on Mar 29, 2016 22:10:43 GMT
The sad thing is because of Bob Marley blacks think only they have dreads when it was sadhus that taught them about ganja and dreads.
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Post by ohphob on Mar 29, 2016 22:44:03 GMT
I never understood cultural appropriation. It's literally what hair does naturally no matter what your culture or race is.
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Post by kondzio on Mar 29, 2016 22:47:28 GMT
Everyone should have a privilege to express oneself, this woman doesn't understand it IMHO... Dreads aren't resereved to any culture!!!
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Post by gingerdreadman on Mar 29, 2016 23:25:26 GMT
If you watch most of the white dreaded videos on youtube there is someone in the comments pulling the race card on dreads. Pretty insane. We have much larger issues as a species to worry about than hair styles.
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Post by kondzio on Mar 29, 2016 23:28:47 GMT
some people won't understand it unfortunately, they are too selfish and narrow-minded -.-
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Post by Dreadlocktruth on Mar 30, 2016 7:23:12 GMT
The sad thing is because of Bob Marley blacks think only they have dreads I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that this was just poor wording, but making sweeping statements about race is part of the problem. I've had so many discussions about the 'cultural appropriation' thing (all online, mostly on tumblr) that I'm just worn out on it, now... I used to try reasoning with the people who are vocally against white people wearing them but all they do is adjust their argument whenever you point something out. They're invested in their anti-stance and are more interested in holding onto it at all costs than actually engaging with an opposing argument.
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Post by riannasaurus on Mar 30, 2016 9:10:47 GMT
My hair actually dreads up if I don't brush it for 2 or 3 days (I still haven't got into the whole brushing your hair everyday thing) like actual locks. How can that be cultural appropriation?
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Post by Dreadlocktruth on Mar 30, 2016 9:15:55 GMT
Cuz it's racist if you don't stop your hair from doing what it would naturally do, d'uh!
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jxbx
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Post by jxbx on Mar 30, 2016 16:03:48 GMT
Seems to me that "cultural appropriation" was thrown into the mix just to give us all something to fight about.
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Post by acidburn on Mar 30, 2016 17:22:58 GMT
The sad thing is because of Bob Marley blacks think only they have dreads I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that this was just poor wording, but making sweeping statements about race is part of the problem. I've had so many discussions about the 'cultural appropriation' thing (all online, mostly on tumblr) that I'm just worn out on it, now... I used to try reasoning with the people who are vocally against white people wearing them but all they do is adjust their argument whenever you point something out. They're invested in their anti-stance and are more interested in holding onto it at all costs than actually engaging with an opposing argument. I realized this morning what i had posted, And thought about it and realized i'm in the same category as the women in the video.
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Post by Dreadlocktruth on Mar 30, 2016 18:51:08 GMT
Don't worry... if you have self-awareness on the issue, then you most definitely are not in the same category as that woman. ;p
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Post by acidburn on Apr 1, 2016 12:22:04 GMT
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Post by dave on Apr 1, 2016 13:40:43 GMT
Yeah, lots of news things picked it up.. The story changed since the beginning (at first, she was a teacher, now just another student. Other people spoke up and said he had insulted her before they started shooting, etc etc) To me, it did look a bit staged from their body language... Anyhow, I've never once had any negativity in that sense, and have had Jamaican students at school who also had locs complementing me/envious. The whole topic just seems to incite petty arguments and fights.
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Post by Dreadlocktruth on Apr 1, 2016 14:01:33 GMT
I've only ever had one experience with a person of colour that could be described as negative, but I can only guess if it had anything to do with my hair. As others (and myself) have said, I think it's one of those things that seems huge on the internet but rarely comes up IRL.
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