Property thinking

On another website I came over a thread in that there was a discussion whether of not white people should carry their hair in form of dread locks.
Most people who participated in the dicussion said no.

The following is a QUOTE from the discussion.There are more people speaking their mind against white people and dreads but this here was the most respectful and least disrespectful one:

really it was meant for our culture to be seperated from others and as we change other people from other races copy our style we had afro's they copy that we had breads they copy that but there as one thing they could not get until later on i say probely around the 19th or 20th century it was the dreadlocks but the dreadlocks were not ment for fashion it was ment as a stand up, it showed the strength in black people and no matter how they try to change us the the mind learned and the body strengthing and the spirit evolve. We as black people took a stand what for we believed in and to show how we ha followers the result was we all began to look alike. yeah mon we all began to look alike for over a million people started to dead their heads and saw for what we believed in but there was one thing they haven't experienced and that was the struggle and punishment to keep our dreads on our head for what we have today. and no i don't think dreads are for everyone because they have people that are still discusted and people that are discriminating against what we believe yeah mon but no matter what we will still strength in numbers until everybody have dreadlocks and live the way of thy rastaf I. Jah bless.

Now I know this kind of property thinking goes both ways but it still annoys me.
We all profit from inventions and discoveries people of other ethnicities or races have made. Why separating and saying"that's just for us"?

 

that poster is an idiot. I have been growing my locks for close to 7 years now and I really have no issue with a white person growing dreadlocks. I have a a few qualms about it but they are minor. For one I feel that some whites honestly look a little silly with locks and two, i rarely see whites with super kept locks. Owning/growing locks is a commitment and I feel that some whites give locks a bad name, I have been in a lot of different situations where I have to be on the defense and answer a string of questions concerning the sanitary aspects of my hair style. And then once the questions were answered and they find that my responses were different that what they expected I almost always get a response thats sounds a lot like; "oh well, I had no idea because we have a friend named Peter and he never washes his hair and then once he dyed his dreadlocks bright purple, you ever dye your hair a color? oh no, well peters hair always smelled gross"

all the while, im thinking, hey maybe peter should wash his effing hair. not washing it is a good way to make any hair nasty.



but to answer the bigger question, no body owns too much of anything really. Jamaicans did NOT invent locks. And I still have no idea why they are A-numero uno when it comes to being tied to that illusion.

-The first known examples of dreadlocks date back to ancient dynastic Egypt. Examples of Egyptians wearing locked hairstyles

-the locked Hindu deity Shiva and his followers were described in the scriptures as "jaTaa", meaning "wearing twisted locks of hair", probably derived from the Dravidian word "caTai", which means to twist or to wrap

-The very earliest Christians also may have worn this hairstyle. Particularly noteworthy are descriptions of James the Just, brother of Jesus and first Bishop of Jerusalem, who wore them to his ankles

-Locks may have also been part of Mexican culture before the 16th century Spanish conquest. In a description of an Aztec ritual, Historian William Hickling Prescott referred to locked Priests of the Aztec civilization, a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th century, 15th century and 16th century.

-Nazarites for life who wore locks and were mentioned in the Bible include the Nazarites Samuel, John the Baptist, and probably the most famous biblical figure with locked hair, Samson, who, according to scripture, had seven locks and lost his great strength when they were cut