Confessions on Yik Yak | Im sorry but can someone help me understand how dreads are black culture? Its a hairstyle. If you have that hair texture and your hair naturally becomes dreads but you’re not black how is that bad? Or even if someone doesnt have that hair but they want it

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Im sorry but can someone help me understand how dreads are black culture? Its a hairstyle. If you have that hair texture and your hair naturally becomes dreads but you’re not black how is that bad? Or even if someone doesnt have that hair but they want it

Anonymous 6w

This is something that can easily be googled

Anonymous 6w

“how is a kimono japanese culture? it’s just clothes.” that is how your question sounds. also if you put your white, non curly hair in dreads it will fall out. you can do so much shit with straight hair not appropriating black culture won’t kill you babe

Anonymous 6w

If you’re not black your hair doesn’t naturally lock. That’s a common misconception, matted hair and locs are entirely different. Hair gets matted through neglect and buildup, locs can’t be achieved that way. Ppl mistake it as being the same thing but it’s very different

Anonymous

#1 6w

chat could even give you the answer

Anonymous

#1 6w

I want answers from a human being rn

Anonymous

#1 6w

Not from data of 2010 or something like that

Anonymous

OP 6w

Well to put it simply it has nothing to do with texture. It isn’t just a “style”. The hairstyle can be connected to a religion, Rastafri. Dreadlocks were always meant to represent pride and a connection to heritage, a resistance to eurocentric beauty standards.

Anonymous

OP 6w

The data wouldn’t be from 2010..this question is asked constantly about lots of black hairstyles.

Anonymous

OP 6w

It also isn’t “just hair” because black people get constantly discriminated for having dreads or even just wearing out their hair. The crown act exists for a reason. It’s sort of unfair when people don’t educate themselves and start doing things just because it’s “cool” and don’t learn the culture. Also? Dreadlocks are a process. It takes 1-2 years for hair to lock. It’s not going to just happen unless you commit. Also not having the texture for it can ruin your hair and cause lots of damage and

Anonymous

#1 6w

Hair loss. There you go.

Anonymous

#1 6w

You can explain this all day long and ppl will still refuse to acknowledge or respect it. But that’s my favorite thing about locs, it’s all about the process and that process is unique to us. They can imitate but their “dreads” will never be locs. It’s one of the few things in black culture that is truly ours. It’s never been “just a style” we’re still ridiculed and vilified for wearing locs to this day

Anonymous

#4 6w

Even ppl w Freeforms have to keep them clean for them to be healthy, and our can hair can get there in a healthy and natural way while the hair types of other cultures typically can’t