Real Rastas Call them Dreads not Locs
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- Опубліковано 20 січ 2024
- I know this is a question folks like to ask, better yet, it's a question we should be asking.
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As a white guy, I personally like the look of dreads/locks and hope that there is more acceptance of them in the future. In my opinion, workplace rules that prohibit them are simply discrimination hidden in plain sight.
Dreads, Locs, I've heard both. Our/My hair is beautiful.
OUR HAIR IS THE SHIT!
I've had my locs for over 16 years. I've grown them, I've cut them... Rinse and repeat. I never felt bad about calling my hair dreads. I actually felt that term was more endearing and powerful. I actually use the term locs/ dreads interchangeably. Makes me no nevermind... JUST DONT TOUCH THEM 👊🏾
Brother you educated us today!❤ Thank you! You have inspired millions😊 Please continue to educate us, we need it!❤. Love you and we need you!❤
I’m 52, growing up they were dreads, became locs more in the last 15-20 years, at least in my experience. Great post!
I'm new to the loc world ( I'll be two years into my journey in June), but before I started my locs I was a " don't call them dreads" type of person, even though I called them dreads growing up. Since I got them, I generally refer to them a locs, but I refer to myself a dreadhead. I really don't care what you call them, as long as you are being respectful about it.
Once again you didn't disappoint. Thank you! 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
Great video brotha!! I loved the history and perspective given on how we name and perceive our own hair.
It really shows the Power of Intentionality, or How you do/say something over What you do/say.
Keep Being Great!
Thank you for sharing your perspective on your hair! Thank you young man to the highest ❤ Continue to be you❤
As a Jamaican, I call it Natty.
I was growing my locks for about 10 years & my head is quite small so I had to let them go. Those locks were so heavy and I was tired of carrying them for so many years!!
Good Info! And you have a great sense of humor! lol..Thank you...
Thank you for educating me. I will typically compliment "locs" when I see them on strangers, until I know that person well enough to ask what they prefer.
I learned a few new things today because of your video, thank you for that.
came here to learn something thanks conscious lee!
Well said!
Feels like this conversation pairs well with the convo around black joy and black trauma
Great Video🔥 Like you said, Many Cultures had Dreads/Congo Locs/Dread Locs/Locs/Matted Hair. I would tell people, imagine how hair was before Combs were invented. Because of the Texture of my hair, it took a min. for me to Loc-up & I'm Black, well mixed. I think Dread Locs are as Bob Marley said, leave them alone, only to wash & keep clean. In society today, compared to back in the 70's, 80's, in American, we were frowned upon for having Dreads. I remember one of my very young sons told me he was told he had Worms in his head. So much pressure for a child especially if no understanding of it was really explained. In today's Society, Dreads/Congo Locs/Dread Locs/Locs/Spongy Dread Locs/Sista Locs etc. are more "Acceptable" & Fashionable. Labels on everything but like you said, it's the Culture behind it but so many Races wanna accept the Standard of Beauty along the Lines of White Culture. Beauty is how one interprets it & should not be defined for anyone. Education is most definitely Powerful!
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I was told by Black folks a few years ago that it’s racist to call them dreadlocks and to only call them locs. Half my family is Black and I had cousins who had them and they always called them dreadlocks so I called them that my whole life. I call them locs now as I don’t want to offend and I’ve taught my kids to call them locs too.
Its called Ether(My Hair is 👑 💪🏿❤️) Much Love an Respect from Detroit313 💨💨💨
Preach this thang!
Great post.
Thank you.
I’ve heard it always called dreads never just locks… until now I never been corrected. Funnily enough I never thought of it as dreadful
Bruh its a ick ive always had when, especially our own, refer to them as dreads given the background of yt people refering to locs as dreadful or black hair in general
I had no idea the terminology had a rich history like this. Never learned the difference till now or that there even was one. Why this wasn't in history class is beyond me.
It seems like policing language to me. We fully embrace nigga (though some abhor it). Why can't it be the same for what we call our hair? I have had locked hair since 1992. I do not care what someone else tells me to call myself.
Much love
In Africa we call them Rasta or dreadlocks. I guess it depends what part of the world you’re in. I’ve been growing mine for a year and 10 months.
I'm from Trinidad and we call them a "Ras", lol, because it's Rastafarians who had them, mostly
@@latoyakvh nice learn something new every day, yeah seems like only people in the diaspora feel a certain type of way when you refer to them as dreads.
Is it assault or defense 🤔
Or can it be both?
If we look at the migration theory, which was proven by a geneticist who linked a large number of groups genetically to the san bush people of africa, these groups came out of africa. So I'd argue that dreads originated in africa. Just overtime the cultures distinguised themselves from their african roots. But many similarities remain.
In Africa and the Caribbean dread locs represent roots and culture. In the US dread locs represent drug usage and marijuana junkies. So it depends on your location.
That's not true that's what the media want you to think lol
Olay, I'm " that guy" today.
I'm only a minute or deep into the video.
But what about the celts? Or the Irish and Scott's before the Roman's showed up?
White people with red hair,who back in that time had dread locs.
Thank you for this so much. I've been loc'd for 22 years. And I've called them dreadlocks and my 5 year old calls them dreadlocks ❤️🖤💚.
The newest news reminds us that Black hair remains political, as a
Texas superintendent defends suspensions of Darryl George, a black student over his dreadlocks in a Full Page ad. 😠
Rasta nah dread, Locks pon I head like Samson seen.
Means your a king
This dude reminds me of Romeo
Miss my locs, but as a white guy they were grinchfingers and poofy.
Down to my ass.
Education is Elevation ✊🏾🔒❤
My bad Guinea not Ghana
I just call it both DredLocs lol
I heard both
Brick lady for president
Conscious for vice president
Growing up we always cold them dreadlocs
I’m retwisting mine rn and honestly yea I fell into the argument as a teenager but now turning 20 this year I feel like to each their own and in the English language colloquially dread or dreadful is understood as a bad thing but for me personally I use locs. I personally have the subcategory of sister-locs because my parts are smaller and I use the same tool that you would use for putting im crochet hair/Marley hair. To each their own and don’t dictate what other people use to describe themselves because their journey with their hair is their business. You should also understand if you call them one thing and that person corrects you just know that how their hair to be called. It’s just respect of boundaries.
Locs are braids or fake dreads are natural
Locs
y'd you show a pic of Post Malone. that didnt look good on him.
The Caribbean is still part of the Americas🤐 locs are indigenous no matter what part of the planet your from
Actually its called rasta
If youre not a rasta then call them.whatever you want but dont be out here correcting true dreadheads its that simple 🇯🇲🤞🏾Rasta a religion
Appreciated all your points! But the “Hindi” people? The “Hindi” god Shiva? Come on, Lee, you have been in spaces with Hindus (I see USC on the wall back there!) so how do you not know better? *Hindi* is the 4th most-spoken language in the world. *Hindus* are followers of the world’s 3rd largest religion, including the god Shiva. Not all Hindus speak Hindi, and not all Hindi-speakers are Hindu (and when I say “not all”, I mean it’s not even close). I grew up in the South with ignorant kids asking me if my religion was “Hindi” and it still makes my skin crawl because it let me know how much people don’t even care enough to read the word properly. It’s colonizer talk, to treat brown people and their cultures as disposable. And by the way, South Asian sages still may maintain their hair that way, as symbols of their devotion and humility… it’s not just ancient history. Look I know global non-white hair history is not the point of this video, and you didn’t have to include South Asian sages in this conversation, and I know you weren’t trying to mock any South Asians. But language is political and it’s used to systematically deny people their dignity. Making us feel like the very basics of our cultures are too small of a detail to be bothered with is isolating and xenophobic. In this time of tremendous violent white Christian nationalism, we must understand how the White Christian nativist structures of our society have taught us to dehumanize the “foreigner”. Please keep educating yourself as you do this truly important work of educating others. Really, I love your videos and I’m listening to your podcast with Chescaleigh, and I just don’t expect this kind of thing here. If you read this, thanks, and I hope the constructiveness of my critique comes through.
Nah, you’re making it political
THE VIDEO AINT EVEN START YET😭
@@willow4371those people RUN to the comments unsolicited.
Let him push the algorithm ppl.
@@willow4371did you see the thumbnail???
@@PardonYoudo I need permission to comment??
Tchiiip
Nothing dreadful about them. I HAVE LOCS👳🏿♀️
Hindu man. Hindi is a language.
You lost me at the last part. Dreadlocks are an African/ Black thing. Egyptians are African.
I dont care if people go to work with dreads or anything but that being said im a conservative and firm believer of state and private rights. We should be allowed to wear our hair however we want...but people can also react however they want. So if tom dont want dreads in his lil grocery store or factory tom can do that.
Who does your hair your non-black wife?
Depends on the culture as it's not an African thing. Nearly every civilization has done this with their hair and at best it was either seen as a statement of money or religion. Not politics.
My father is from the West Indies, and he's always been knotty dread man..Rasta!! I think we are divided here because of eurocentric ideology.
I think we cut off the dread part because as with our hair it was seen as dirty or unkempt. I believe that just calling them locs makes it more palatable for the white gaze.
Bruh Fux all of this. I want to know why you aren’t doing a video on “Brick Lady?” When can we expect to hear you talk about that sir???????????
He already did. The police said that because she got hit with a bottle, not a brick, her testimony was "false" even though her injuries were real.
Lets remember not all water bottles are plastic. But hush up class is in session. Let's focus on the lesson.
@@chlorofem The cop literally said the video footage showed a plastic water bottle LOL
@@ManicOpake That’s not what they said. They said that after she went to the hospital it was determined that her injuries were NOT caused by blunt force trauma. They also said that cameras on the scene showed that she was hit with a “PLASTIC WATER BOTTLE” after she assaulted the guy first. So nice try.
@@10_door_tycoon i don't trust cops. There here to fill jail cells and protect the rich. They don't give a fuck about you or me or anyone with a little color. Be real.
First world problems...