Hot take: dreadlocks do not belong to one culture... or race should I say since many black cultures wear them and are not all the same.
Known for very curly hair when in poverty or warriors wor described as having snake like hair. Yes their hair is finer and more manageable but in poverty or warriors who would be more unkempt and less likely to spend time on grooming matting forms aka dreads.
soldiers and warriors wore their hair short aside from one long matted form at the front of their heads called a glibb. It was intended to be wrapped around the head for anonymity as well as a last ditch effort as armor.
Germanic tribes as well as vikings:
Known for wearing dreadlocks, twists, and braids and is documented.
Several tribes were known for wearing at least a few locks on their head. Part of native culture is not cutting their hair and keeping it healthy and strong. Therefore it stands to say dreads would come naturally at times and would not be removed due to their beliefs but would be allowed to naturally develop.
As a German Irish and native descendent I am tired of hearing this fight over who owns hair. Who revolutionizes hair and who can dictate who's accepted for whatever hair they wear.
I fully support the black community and their stance on the culture even when its simply hair. But its not race that divided those who lived a dread life. It was religion. So anyone following a Christian faith criticizing anyone wearing dreads better look in a mirror. You are wearing the hear that your beliefs oppressed world wide.
Dreadlocks are not racial. The cultures who wore them were near wiped out in the name of religion aside from Africa that has managed to preserve it based on hair type. And now the vast majority follow the religion that killed the rest and stake a claim over.... wait for it... HAIR
I'll wear my hair as I please and ill honor all of my ancestral histories (I was not raised religious and have learned a lot about my heritages k thanks). And you Christians rooted from Africa can suck my dick because by joining that heinous religion you are part of a religion that removed my peoples in 3 ancestral lineages ability to wear their locks and killed them off. Talk about oppression. Criticize me for my hair again please.
Disclaimer: its no criticism on black lives or any black culture amongst the thousands that exist. Im just tired of hearing this shit. Once upon a time nobody had combs. Then only the rich had combs. Beliefs were killed in the name of a God that so many African countries and American black people worship. Black people should understand the world of the oppressed. When I wear dreads its no infringement on your history. Its a recognition of my own.
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