am i being disrespectful

Its an image. 100%.

And if it is a stereotype, I think its a good one.

 

Im sorry you think that way, but I love you anyway brother. So, how did you get your dreads?

 

i made them with some help from my sister and with a comb.

 

nearly everybody with dreads say that they don't follow fashions, and that it's purely spiritual and bla bla, yet still they all look the same, what's up with that??? hmmm

and another thing, i don't understand why people consider their "home made" dreads better than ones made in salons. come on, dreads are dreads...

i find many "hippies" a bit elitist and better-than-thou, which is sad

 

its like this, there are those who tattoo for fashion...and those who tattoo for religion...thus is the division....and each sometimes judge the other

On a personal opion note: Since my dreads, as with some others, were done to be more natural, the idea of going to a salon to have them done is obsurd...the whole point in to not have my hair "styled"....Being natural just so happens to result in clumpy hair and dreads....not many options in that..

 

^^^ i like your way of thinking... you do it your way. i don't see that alot.

 

Dreadlocks did not originate from the Rastas.... it originated from Egypt... but several people have dreadlocks for religious purposes as well. I'm not being harsh by any means but do some research Rastas werent the only ones and I dont think you are being disrespectful at all.

 

respect life and everythings all right . a dred of family respects life . o yaya dred of family , respectful of what we share .

 

Some rasta's view it as disrespectful due to their religious reasons behind them. Others could care less.
But history tells us that Vikings had dreads as well due to their beliefs, so.......poo on them then (rastas) if they can't let it go.

 

Well said, Rastafarians didn't get dreads until the american slave trade when we started bringing slaves over from india and they escaped to the carribean.

but i do really want dreadlocks, and i dont think it would be disrespectful to rastafarians. i mean, i love jamaican people. I want nothing more than to just live there and I'm not getting dreads because i want to shit all over their religion or anything.

imitation is the greatest form of flattery.

 

don't imitate, be your own.

a dread can be a very empowered person, but don't think you're imitating anybody else. dread belongs to you as much as it does to jamaicans.

 

wow, what a cool tidbit of information! thank you.

 

Hair is hair. If our personalities were limited to how we wore our hair then why don't we just change ourselves into a bunch of wigs.

Your personality is not in your hair. Shouldn't it be in your mind/soul/whatever you want to call it?

If you think your hair matters than you really need to take some time and think a little more about what's important to you.

 

Yes u are being disrespectful dont listen to FreakyJoeMan, but you couldnt have possibley known that. Jah Bless and cut your hair/no disrespect


Peace

 

Who gives a sht what *dave* thinks. He sounds like a white dude from suburbia.

 

Don't worry about being disrespectful or respectful, just enjoy yourself

 

LoL no not at all.not every dread is a rasta and not every rasta is a dread

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