I started my locs 2 years ago and I’ve never felt beautiful until I decided to loc my hair. At 60 years old it’s like being awakened from a long nap. Refreshed and full of energy. I truly, believe there is power in locs. It’s who I was meant to be and I got a bonus My husband of 40 years can’t get enough of touching them.
I AM, 71, proudly wearing my sacred locks for 24 years. I envisioned my locks in a dream in 1968. My locks are power, light and health. My older brother was first in the 1970s. I AM proud and joyful to see/sea so many locks in my southern metro city. The colonizer descendants defined Dread as negative. I define Dreadlocks as Devine, Ancient and original. Asante 🌄🌍🌙
I've had lox for 23 years, they are to my feet, i will never cut them, my lox make me feel empowered and connected with my ancestors... Its a way of life, more than just a hair style... culture and lineage
As a mixed black man, i started my dread journey a few months ago, it makes me feel more confident and I feel like I am myself. I've always shaved my head trying to hide my ethnicity and starting my dreadlocs have made me feel more like who I am, instead of hiding it, I am displaying it and I feel proud. They really do change you and it definitely is a spiritual journey for your mind and soul.
I just started my loc journey. I have worn my hair natural since 90's but never just let it grow. Always cut for simplicity. Now that I have made the commitment, I know that this is more than a trend and I treat it with the respect it is due. We all deserve to be free, whatever freedom and peace means to you (all viewers) I hope you have it. I do not want to worry about the negative connections some people view us by. I just want to be I
Loved this video and locs! I just keep my hair curly or in braids because I don’t have a spiritual meaning for that hairstyle personal. My brother does (he dyes them every color haha) I agree that hair, especially locs holds power or energy ❤
Appreciate your work and the depth of knowledge and presentation of the information. Knowing our interconnected histories is critical to our continued evolution. ❤🙏🏽 thank you
I been on my journey for about 6 months. I tried 20 years ago & not being able to wash my hair drove me nuts. Now I find out that was a myth. Can't wait for my growth. My son locked his hair & I told him I was jealous. He said I should freeform; so I am! ❤️💯
Beautiful mini documentary, very informative. In my opinion I believe Rasta grew their locks from the influences of the hindu sadhus, bible texts and maybe the mau mau. I stand to be corrected
Lovely presentation overall very good, however there is a point of correction I have to state as an elder. Yes dread locks were worn in many ancient culture regarding indigenous people including the Hindus. In regards to African Americans wearing dreadlocks, that was purely influenced by Rastas from Jamaican over time. Initial wirhout a doubt, Rastafarians from Jamaica were rejected and scorned by African Africans and understandably so but it was a shock to their culture in the USA. It was over time that Jamaicans who establish themselves in major cities like Miami, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington D.C but especially NEW YORK CITY. It was there that African Americans has to live among dreadlocks wear people for decades. The rudeboy Jamaican image because trendy in NYC and was promoted in many music video in the late 80s and all through the 90s, Rapper like Das EFX, The Lost Boyz, Busta Rhymes, Lauryn Hill and many more, it gain a COOL IMAGE EFFECT after a few generations, the Black Americans first accepted braids in men's hair which was revolutionary and looked down upon but that evolved in accepting dreadlocks, however make no mistake, when Jamaican Rastafarians first started to migrate to the USA they very looked at as the worse and refered to as the BANANA BOAT PEOPLE. Dreadlock was not a thing until Jamaican Rasta came to the USA and as it gain notoriety in music videos and movies it is what it is now... Bless up 🙏🏾
Very nice video!! There are two other African cultures, that wears locs as a symbol of religion and resistance most people don't know about. The Baye Fall sect of Senegal, are Islamic and they have been wearing locs for over a century . Founded by Ahmadou Bamba, a resistance fighter to the French in Senegal.They could also be identified by the patchwork fabric they wear (Ankara etc). The other one is, the Bahitawi hermit monks of Ethiopia. Rastafarians would more closely associate locs tradition to them, than the Mau Mau of Kenya. I've been wearing locs since 1982.
I love I locs man. I do think of doing it fully in free form though, just to be closer to Jah. I nuh feel no way bout calling it Dread locs, caah babylon is (physically) Dread so in order to survive these times, Rasta had to be (spiritually) Dread and Terrible. I man yout dem need fi remember that.
Very informative video..my lady back in the 70's turned me on to dreadlocks in NYC ..she was a big fan of Bob Marley. I hope if you do another video on locks, that you include a picture of a statue of the pharaoh Amenemhat 111 of the 12th dynasty BC as a priest; who is depicted with very large locks very similar to Bob Marely
Awesome video!!! A job well done! My locs (13 years and have been cut twice) are down past my knees and I absolutely love them! I love to see men with locs. I hate the word dreads/dread locs and I do not care for the looks of Freeform locs. But, to each their own.
The ancient Elamites and the Hebrews also wore locs, there are Assyrian carvings showing them captured as soldiers or as conquered people and some wearing locs; that’s like 3000 years ago. For me, locs is the only way I can wear my hair because my hair is too fragile to handle loose; it was never able to handle chemicals or manipulation, which means no extensions or braids, only wigs. I don’t care how people refer to them I only care that people allow others to wear it if they want to, and not expect everyone to view them spiritually. The Rastas said locs hold energy, I believe all hair hold energy but concentrated hair (locs) may hold more, maybe brushing helps to release some of it; I say this because I know of someone who didn’t want locs because of the energy.
Hebrews actually didn’t wear locs. I’m curious as to where you read or heard that. Assyrians were known for their thick, black curly hair. And yes I had a similar experience with getting extensions when I had loose natural hair. My scalp became inflamed due to the chemicals in the fake hair. Locs are the best hairstyle for me hands down.
@@JOSETTEBIANCA I did a search on ancient Israelites/hebrews then switched the search results to “images”. In some of the images are prisoners of war; the ones with the fringes at their hem are the Hebrews. In some images are entertainers.
@@chronicfatiguehermithiker3022those are not purposeful dreadlocks, if your hair is curly and not washed or combed for a long time it will matte up this is what happened to the assyrians,they did not purposefully let the hair matte and loc up
I love my dreads! I've only had them for 3 years now. The term does not offend me but I was also raised by Rastafarins. Some of my non rasta relatives have dreads too. None of us are offended by this term.
To my sheer surprise, my hair began to locs itself when I was going thru hard hard times at about 27 years of age...probably due to being so inspired by Rastafari since my teens it came as a blessing to me...like a crown I had been given in recognition of the tribulation I had been through for the sake of Truth. At some point, feeling I had dishonoured them, I cut them off, and felt terrible for ages... but the same thing happned again, and this time I have kept them to this day... (but strangely, I woke from a nightmare this morning in which, in a moment of "absent-mindedness" I had cut them off again, and bleached the spikey remains!!...I was traumatized in the dream, and felt it for hours after waking up! Still ot sure what to make of it, other than a warning not to do it...😬) ...they are definitely a strength, as part of my covenant with I Father....the only One who knows, and can judge I...Selah 🙏
My locs are a representation of my Kingly/Warrior Heritage. A representation of the struggle for freedom and liberation both in the natural and in the realm of the mental
My ex GF gave me an ultimatum about me getting locs. 😂Keyword: EX 😂 Had my 1st LOCVERSARY this past April. A year and 6mths!!! Loc'd and loving it!!! 😢At times I miss her fr fr tho😂
Locs were worn in ancient black Briton by the people in the western isles and Scotland. Africans were not brought to the English colony on the American shores, they were black British.
I've had looks for 14 years now, I feel complete with them and inshaAllah I shall have them for the rest of my life. I don't find the term dreadlocks offensive instead I see it as a term of endearment.
I grew up on reggae and learn about Rastafarian beliefs through the music. I don’t have dreads but I do have long hair. I’d get dreads if i didn’t bow hunt because dreads would trap scent and scent is import in hunting.
From the beginning of time in the center of Pangea sacred and divine ,we wore dreads in Kemet ancient Egypt they were an example of power wandering Sadhus and shamans shivite followers of Sheba in ancient Hindu tradition to connect with the Divine for enlightenment as a dedication to our spiritual selves in the vedic scriptures dreadlocks signify power also deep spiritual healing(copyrighted) Those are my lyrics to a song that I'm about to release I turned to the Rastafari at 21 but now I identify myself with the first tribe of humankind going back to the beginning to the first mother of creation.
I am white, possibly part Cherokee. Never was planning on getting locs. When I was working two full time jobs for about 2 years, my hair naturally started locking up. Working in kitchens, I always wore a beanie. And I never got around to buying a comb or brush. They didn't look that great, and due to my hair type/balding, I ended up cutting them off. Would that be considered cultural appropriation?
The history of locks started waaaaaaay before what you mentioned in this video. The first set of people to have demonstrated locks were ancient Egyptian kings. They used the dread locks as a sign of their authority and position. If you look at the statues of the pharaohs in the old kingdom you will see this. This concept of the pharaohs having locks was so central to their authority that they later replaced the locks with the head wrap or kepresh having the black stripes which most people don’t know actually represent locks!!
That’s neat.. you got a reference? I’ll do my own research as well I’m just interested in if you’ve found all of this information in one specific book that I could read.
what does thie bible verse have to do with locs? was going to watch, like and subscribe but that quote from a white male written story book threw me off
Hi the Bible verses are at the beginning of all of my videos, so if you subscribed you’d see verses on every video. It doesn’t have anything to do with locs. I try my best to live by the words of the Bible. The Bible teaches us the truth about life, death, parenthood, marriage, prayer, forgiveness, faith - everything, and through it we learn about the Creator of the universe who designed everything we see and everything we don’t. The Israelites are an ancient, ethnic group who began as a partially nomadic people; they weren’t “white” by any means.
This is none sense. People please read. Kikuyu resistance fighters lived in the forests and their hair became matted. Because Kenya was a British colony the Mau Mau rebellion was reported in Jamaica and as Horace Campbell explains in Rasta and Resistance Rasta adopted the style …
The movement in Kenya had no influence on Rasta.Better you say India had a influence.We did live alongside and even marry them.Its the Rasta movement why so many Americans wear locks.
The term Rastafarism is actually disrespectful to Rastafari due to the fact Rastafari cannot be colonized by colonialism and Rastafari is a lifestyle not a religion so it cannot and will never be categorize in a ism. Dread locs depending on which tribe you reason with can mean many different things, dread sometimes speak of the hardship forced on by oppressors. Great perspective though.
@@MegatoneMyCall You can clarify with any Rasta. Rastafarism is not a terminology used to speak of Rasta. 🤣 but this new generation of follow fashion Dreads would not know that over even overstand it.
Hi, European cultures have thousands of years with dreadlocks. Polish and Eastern European witches wore different dreads depending on their magical specialty. Tieing wool dreadlocks into hair is a continuing tradition that goes back thousands of years before Christ.
Hi thanks for your comment. I was reading about the presence of dreadlocks within Europe during my research for this video. The Polish had what is called a Polish Plait. It was a mass of matted dirty hair which formed into something that looks like a beaver tail. It was believed that the plait took illness out of the body. This hairstyle is not dreadlocks. In terms of European folklore, there were fables about fairies who tied knots or tangles into people’s hair while they slept. (mentioned in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet). But this could be removed easily. In terms of witches, I didn’t find conclusive evidence that suggested they wore dreadlocks.
There's nothing wrong with wearing dread lock only if you are still young but police don't like it to bad I like looking at people wearing dreadlocks😂😊😊❤
Is anyone here who could help me i need to know the truth! Raastafari did hindus help them to become like that their matted dreadlocks n all because they say bo. Marley was a hindu sadhu
Somehow the world 🌍 thinks that Bob Marley was the first rastas in Jamaica. There were rastas in Jamaica and the Caribbean not to mention Afrika before Bob was born. And our locks wearing comes from our ancestors from Afrika.
Andrea, don't bother about indians. They don't know that Buddha and shiva all came from Afrika. They have been brainwashed by bramins for 2000yrs. Their books were only written during gupta period. It was the Aethiopians that took the culture to india.😊
One must understand that, Locks are from The Ancient Egyptian Kemetic System, whereby the Kings (pharaoh) and Temple Priest (Priest wore Locks until after their graduation from the Temple education and service from 4yrs to 40yrs) where required to wear them for spiritual reasons. Locks are Locks and Not Dread at all to those of Afrikan descent, the usage of the word "dread" to Locks is a insult to the Afrikan Ancestral ideology. 🎤
Really informative thank you. It sounds silly but i’m down a youtube rabbit hole and i’ve ended up looking for the history behind my instinctual prejudice against white people who grow locs. I don’t think enough people really understand that the transatlantic slave trade and the Kenyan uprising against the british (which i didn’t know about) is very recent history. And sadly the same need for defiance in the face of adversity still exists today, whether we believe we actively contribute to it or not. So let’s be perfectly honest, growing your 2A hair and letting it matte isn’t an act of defiance, it’s an act of ignorance. I think if you’re caucasian you should just accept that you’re racialised as white. Accept the benefits of it and accept the negatives of it. You don’t have a struggle to defy against like that, and it’s honestly insulting to black people to cosplay like you do. (I’d add that most of the white people i’ve ever encountered with locs have been middle to upper class as well which is probably why i have that instinctual prejudice.) Kind of just soap boxing into the void here, feel free to critique anything i’ve said i’m not a scholar nor am i even that well versed on black culture. Just someone who thinks these hippies with blonde locs look stupid and needed to form a coherent argument as to why i thought that. As i said, rabbit hole.
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I started my locs 2 years ago and I’ve never felt beautiful until I decided to loc my hair. At 60 years old it’s like being awakened from a long nap. Refreshed and full of energy. I truly, believe there is power in locs. It’s who I was meant to be and I got a bonus My husband of 40 years can’t get enough of touching them.
Your now 60 and ur brain seems shirking to the point that insects think better than you. There is no power in locs, it's only your immagination.
Everyone in my family touches mine even my aunt who pretty much copied my hair 😂. There’s definitely power in them and we’re a community 🙏🏽
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63 first time on my loc journey congratulations to you and your husband 😂
I AM, 71, proudly wearing my sacred locks for 24 years. I envisioned my locks in a dream in 1968. My locks are power, light and health. My older brother was first in the 1970s. I AM proud and joyful to see/sea so many locks in my southern metro city. The colonizer descendants defined Dread as negative. I define Dreadlocks as Devine, Ancient and original. Asante 🌄🌍🌙
I don’t want to dreadlocks, but I love my locks. They make me feel beautiful. I love seeing the world we get healthy.
Nice hair ❤ 😊
the gives you information right?
My locs are for my expression of a natural state. I also feel rebellious against the social norm.
That's y rastas wore them, going against societal norms, unkempt, uncut.
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Me too
I've had lox for 23 years, they are to my feet, i will never cut them, my lox make me feel empowered and connected with my ancestors... Its a way of life, more than just a hair style... culture and lineage
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This was a really good learning opportunity. Glad you did it.
I enjoyed that girl, very informative 💕
Thank you! ☺️
As a mixed black man, i started my dread journey a few months ago, it makes me feel more confident and I feel like I am myself. I've always shaved my head trying to hide my ethnicity and starting my dreadlocs have made me feel more like who I am, instead of hiding it, I am displaying it and I feel proud. They really do change you and it definitely is a spiritual journey for your mind and soul.
Congratulations! This is your spiritual journey and within you there’s empowerment fly high ❤
This is so cool! Thanks so much for uploading this neat education dreadlock video! I have always thought that dreadlocks were awesome! 👣🌍
Happy you enjoyed!
Locking my hair, made me fall in love with it. I let it lock without twisting it.
I like the term dreadlocks. I think we get wrapped up into what people think too much. Excellent video ❤
I just started my loc journey. I have worn my hair natural since 90's but never just let it grow. Always cut for simplicity. Now that I have made the commitment, I know that this is more than a trend and I treat it with the respect it is due. We all deserve to be free, whatever freedom and peace means to you (all viewers) I hope you have it. I do not want to worry about the negative connections some people view us by. I just want to be I
I love dreadlocks, and freedom to be me.💖👣🌅
Loved this video and locs! I just keep my hair curly or in braids because I don’t have a spiritual meaning for that hairstyle personal. My brother does (he dyes them every color haha) I agree that hair, especially locs holds power or energy ❤
Appreciate your work and the depth of knowledge and presentation of the information. Knowing our interconnected histories is critical to our continued evolution.
❤🙏🏽 thank you
14 years strong with my locks,I’ll die with these!
Respect, 23 years with mine, I feel that
My thought too 😂❤
I Love My Locs I've Had Them For Years 🥰🥰🥰🥰
I been on my journey for about 6 months. I tried 20 years ago & not being able to wash my hair drove me nuts. Now I find out that was a myth. Can't wait for my growth. My son locked his hair & I told him I was jealous. He said I should freeform; so I am! ❤️💯
Beautiful mini documentary, very informative.
In my opinion I believe Rasta grew their locks from the influences of the hindu sadhus, bible texts and maybe the mau mau.
I stand to be corrected
Never, we rastas got our locks from our ancestors from Afrika. Thank you.
Lovely presentation overall very good, however there is a point of correction I have to state as an elder. Yes dread locks were worn in many ancient culture regarding indigenous people including the Hindus. In regards to African Americans wearing dreadlocks, that was purely influenced by Rastas from Jamaican over time. Initial wirhout a doubt, Rastafarians from Jamaica were rejected and scorned by African Africans and understandably so but it was a shock to their culture in the USA. It was over time that Jamaicans who establish themselves in major cities like Miami, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington D.C but especially NEW YORK CITY. It was there that African Americans has to live among dreadlocks wear people for decades. The rudeboy Jamaican image because trendy in NYC and was promoted in many music video in the late 80s and all through the 90s, Rapper like Das EFX, The Lost Boyz, Busta Rhymes, Lauryn Hill and many more, it gain a COOL IMAGE EFFECT after a few generations, the Black Americans first accepted braids in men's hair which was revolutionary and looked down upon but that evolved in accepting dreadlocks, however make no mistake, when Jamaican Rastafarians first started to migrate to the USA they very looked at as the worse and refered to as the BANANA BOAT PEOPLE. Dreadlock was not a thing until Jamaican Rasta came to the USA and as it gain notoriety in music videos and movies it is what it is now... Bless up 🙏🏾
Very nice video!! There are two other African cultures, that wears locs as a symbol of religion and resistance most people don't know about. The Baye Fall sect of Senegal, are Islamic and they have been wearing locs for over a century . Founded by Ahmadou Bamba, a resistance fighter to the French in Senegal.They could also be identified by the patchwork fabric they wear (Ankara etc). The other one is, the Bahitawi hermit monks of Ethiopia. Rastafarians would more closely associate locs tradition to them, than the Mau Mau of Kenya. I've been wearing locs since 1982.
I love I locs man. I do think of doing it fully in free form though, just to be closer to Jah. I nuh feel no way bout calling it Dread locs, caah babylon is (physically) Dread so in order to survive these times, Rasta had to be (spiritually) Dread and Terrible. I man yout dem need fi remember that.
Matted hair is definitely a sign of divinity.
👍👍
Im brazilian of african ancestry. Im tryna get locs, but im not sure if i wanna ruin my curls for it. should i got for it?
Very informative video..my lady back in the 70's turned me on to dreadlocks in NYC ..she was a big fan of Bob Marley. I hope if you do another video on locks, that you include a picture of a statue of the pharaoh Amenemhat 111 of the 12th dynasty BC as a priest; who is depicted with very large locks very similar to Bob Marely
Awesome video!!! A job well done!
My locs (13 years and have been cut twice) are down past my knees and I absolutely love them! I love to see men with locs. I hate the word dreads/dread locs and I do not care for the looks of Freeform locs. But, to each their own.
The ancient Elamites and the Hebrews also wore locs, there are Assyrian carvings showing them captured as soldiers or as conquered people and some wearing locs; that’s like 3000 years ago. For me, locs is the only way I can wear my hair because my hair is too fragile to handle loose; it was never able to handle chemicals or manipulation, which means no extensions or braids, only wigs. I don’t care how people refer to them I only care that people allow others to wear it if they want to, and not expect everyone to view them spiritually. The Rastas said locs hold energy, I believe all hair hold energy but concentrated hair (locs) may hold more, maybe brushing helps to release some of it; I say this because I know of someone who didn’t want locs because of the energy.
Hebrews actually didn’t wear locs. I’m curious as to where you read or heard that. Assyrians were known for their thick, black curly hair.
And yes I had a similar experience with getting extensions when I had loose natural hair. My scalp became inflamed due to the chemicals in the fake hair.
Locs are the best hairstyle for me hands down.
@@JOSETTEBIANCA I did a search on ancient Israelites/hebrews then switched the search results to “images”. In some of the images are prisoners of war; the ones with the fringes at their hem are the Hebrews. In some images are entertainers.
@@chronicfatiguehermithiker3022those are not purposeful dreadlocks, if your hair is curly and not washed or combed for a long time it will matte up this is what happened to the assyrians,they did not purposefully let the hair matte and loc up
I love my dreads! I've only had them for 3 years now. The term does not offend me but I was also raised by Rastafarins. Some of my non rasta relatives have dreads too. None of us are offended by this term.
lovely vid on Locs
To my sheer surprise, my hair began to locs itself when I was going thru hard hard times at about 27 years of age...probably due to being so inspired by Rastafari since my teens it came as a blessing to me...like a crown I had been given in recognition of the tribulation I had been through for the sake of Truth. At some point, feeling I had dishonoured them, I cut them off, and felt terrible for ages... but the same thing happned again, and this time I have kept them to this day... (but strangely, I woke from a nightmare this morning in which, in a moment of "absent-mindedness" I had cut them off again, and bleached the spikey remains!!...I was traumatized in the dream, and felt it for hours after waking up! Still ot sure what to make of it, other than a warning not to do it...😬) ...they are definitely a strength, as part of my covenant with I Father....the only One who knows, and can judge I...Selah 🙏
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I'm 6 months locked and I'm proud of it..
My locs are a representation of my Kingly/Warrior Heritage. A representation of the struggle for freedom and liberation both in the natural and in the realm of the mental
My ex GF gave me an ultimatum about me getting locs. 😂Keyword: EX 😂 Had my 1st LOCVERSARY this past April. A year and 6mths!!! Loc'd and loving it!!! 😢At times I miss her fr fr tho😂
I love dreadlocks. I think the only downside about it is when people don’t take care of it properly.
I Love my locs
2+ years in!
10 years in! Aboriginal American with locs 🏹💯✊🏾
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Locs were worn in ancient black Briton by the people in the western isles and Scotland. Africans were not brought to the English colony on the American shores, they were black British.
We're u get this from ? People won't believe u
I love this info
@@lynnwoodcarter3486 yes I know many are programmed by the teLIEvision. It was written in the but our people are not reading books.
I've had looks for 14 years now, I feel complete with them and inshaAllah I shall have them for the rest of my life. I don't find the term dreadlocks offensive instead I see it as a term of endearment.
I grew up on reggae and learn about Rastafarian beliefs through the music. I don’t have dreads but I do have long hair. I’d get dreads if i didn’t bow hunt because dreads would trap scent and scent is import in hunting.
From the beginning of time in the center of Pangea sacred and divine ,we wore dreads in Kemet ancient Egypt they were an example of power wandering Sadhus and shamans shivite followers of Sheba in ancient Hindu tradition to connect with the Divine for enlightenment as a dedication to our spiritual selves in the vedic scriptures dreadlocks signify power also deep spiritual healing(copyrighted)
Those are my lyrics to a song that I'm about to release I turned to the Rastafari at 21 but now I identify myself with the first tribe of humankind going back to the beginning to the first mother of creation.
Nothing dreadful about locks.
I am white, possibly part Cherokee. Never was planning on getting locs. When I was working two full time jobs for about 2 years, my hair naturally started locking up. Working in kitchens, I always wore a beanie. And I never got around to buying a comb or brush. They didn't look that great, and due to my hair type/balding, I ended up cutting them off. Would that be considered cultural appropriation?
No…
Not at all. It has a history with a lot of different cultures.
The history of locks started waaaaaaay before what you mentioned in this video. The first set of people to have demonstrated locks were ancient Egyptian kings. They used the dread locks as a sign of their authority and position. If you look at the statues of the pharaohs in the old kingdom you will see this. This concept of the pharaohs having locks was so central to their authority that they later replaced the locks with the head wrap or kepresh having the black stripes which most people don’t know actually represent locks!!
That’s neat.. you got a reference? I’ll do my own research as well I’m just interested in if you’ve found all of this information in one specific book that I could read.
Didn’t know the Masai had dreads!
So fascinating, right?
0:22 no, but i believe the first ppl to have dreadlocks were "white".
Since when bro please wake up you are sleeping
@@merrymensah1039 since the beginning of humanity..
If the way your natural hair grows makes you ugly, and wearing locs gives back that confidence, then by all means wear locs.
what does thie bible verse have to do with locs? was going to watch, like and subscribe but that quote from a white male written story book threw me off
Hi the Bible verses are at the beginning of all of my videos, so if you subscribed you’d see verses on every video. It doesn’t have anything to do with locs. I try my best to live by the words of the Bible. The Bible teaches us the truth about life, death, parenthood, marriage, prayer, forgiveness, faith - everything, and through it we learn about the Creator of the universe who designed everything we see and everything we don’t. The Israelites are an ancient, ethnic group who began as a partially nomadic people; they weren’t “white” by any means.
@@JOSETTEBIANCAlove this reply! I also believe that there’s no way all the knowledge of life can be contained in just one book ✌🏾
This is none sense. People please read. Kikuyu resistance fighters lived in the forests and their hair became matted. Because Kenya was a British colony the Mau Mau rebellion was reported in Jamaica and as Horace Campbell explains in Rasta and Resistance Rasta adopted the style …
Ok were Black Americans in the 1800s wearing dreadlocks?
The movement in Kenya had no influence on Rasta.Better you say India had a influence.We did live alongside and even marry them.Its the Rasta movement why so many Americans wear locks.
The term Rastafarism is actually disrespectful to Rastafari due to the fact Rastafari cannot be colonized by colonialism and Rastafari is a lifestyle not a religion so it cannot and will never be categorize in a ism. Dread locs depending on which tribe you reason with can mean many different things, dread sometimes speak of the hardship forced on by oppressors. Great perspective though.
A bight yuh bright r a di they lite?Fully fully dunce r a di school lunch ya come program wid?
@@MegatoneMyCall You can clarify with any Rasta. Rastafarism is not a terminology used to speak of Rasta. 🤣 but this new generation of follow fashion Dreads would not know that over even overstand it.
You are so beautiful❤
02:39 yes but what about the Irish?..
1month in
Peace.
Real dreds aren't a hairstyle becauseit isn't styled in like afros or cornrows, it's how the hair grows.
Hi, European cultures have thousands of years with dreadlocks. Polish and Eastern European witches wore different dreads depending on their magical specialty.
Tieing wool dreadlocks into hair is a continuing tradition that goes back thousands of years before Christ.
Hi thanks for your comment. I was reading about the presence of dreadlocks within Europe during my research for this video. The Polish had what is called a Polish Plait. It was a mass of matted dirty hair which formed into something that looks like a beaver tail. It was believed that the plait took illness out of the body. This hairstyle is not dreadlocks. In terms of European folklore, there were fables about fairies who tied knots or tangles into people’s hair while they slept. (mentioned in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet). But this could be removed easily. In terms of witches, I didn’t find conclusive evidence that suggested they wore dreadlocks.
this is not true i believe it was called a beaver tail not dreadlocs
Those polish witches were just nasty and didn’t wash or comb their hair or showered 😂😂
Have you too also heard the one about the beaver dressed in locs?
Pretty accurate actually. Also it was a popular style in minoan culture too.
04:09 it doesn't. It says their leaders should not cut their beards.
Highly bless momo history rastafar I selah
Maasai pronounced Muh-sigh
Ahh, you’re right, I’ll keep that in mind for my next video👍🏾
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There's nothing wrong with wearing dread lock only if you are still young but police don't like it to bad I like looking at people wearing dreadlocks😂😊😊❤
Aum namah Shivaya😊
Is anyone here who could help me i need to know the truth! Raastafari did hindus help them to become like that their matted dreadlocks n all because they say bo. Marley was a hindu sadhu
Somehow the world 🌍 thinks that Bob Marley was the first rastas in Jamaica. There were rastas in Jamaica and the Caribbean not to mention Afrika before Bob was born. And our locks wearing comes from our ancestors from Afrika.
Andrea, don't bother about indians.
They don't know that Buddha and shiva all came from Afrika.
They have been brainwashed by bramins for 2000yrs. Their books were only written during gupta period.
It was the Aethiopians that took the culture to india.😊
Bob Marley is my favorite singer.
Have you noticed that the colors of Afrika is same as indian flag.😊
@@SJking-gk4go are you blind? I think your confused with ivory coast flag and one another, if you see even Irish flag is similar
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I was being sarcastic, indians claims everything to belong to them.
One must understand that, Locks are from The Ancient Egyptian Kemetic System, whereby the Kings (pharaoh) and Temple Priest (Priest wore Locks until after their graduation from the Temple education and service from 4yrs to 40yrs) where required to wear them for spiritual reasons. Locks are Locks and Not Dread at all to those of Afrikan descent, the usage of the word "dread" to Locks is a insult to the Afrikan Ancestral ideology. 🎤
The Buffalo soldiers were The Indigenous...
Facts they chose to do dirt but they are heros in history were told they just African chose to fight lol
Ms Bianca is a fox
Really informative thank you. It sounds silly but i’m down a youtube rabbit hole and i’ve ended up looking for the history behind my instinctual prejudice against white people who grow locs.
I don’t think enough people really understand that the transatlantic slave trade and the Kenyan uprising against the british (which i didn’t know about) is very recent history. And sadly the same need for defiance in the face of adversity still exists today, whether we believe we actively contribute to it or not.
So let’s be perfectly honest, growing your 2A hair and letting it matte isn’t an act of defiance, it’s an act of ignorance.
I think if you’re caucasian you should just accept that you’re racialised as white. Accept the benefits of it and accept the negatives of it. You don’t have a struggle to defy against like that, and it’s honestly insulting to black people to cosplay like you do. (I’d add that most of the white people i’ve ever encountered with locs have been middle to upper class as well which is probably why i have that instinctual prejudice.)
Kind of just soap boxing into the void here, feel free to critique anything i’ve said i’m not a scholar nor am i even that well versed on black culture. Just someone who thinks these hippies with blonde locs look stupid and needed to form a coherent argument as to why i thought that. As i said, rabbit hole.
Number 3. Rastafari!
It’s Indian mostly Hindu every piece of hair has a meaning nothing to do with African
Foolishness. India was first inhabited by African.
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Ohh 😂😂😂😂
1500 bc Hindu text 😂😂😂 . Try 35000 year's and you'll be closer to the truths than what you've been led to believe.
You are a little off point 😢
Please elaborate.
Tether babble
Rastafari is a way of life, not a religion or .
wanna a brief history of dreadlocks ? first open eyes , second open ur bible in genesis
go read ur bible thats the history of dreadlocks