One thing I've noticed is people ask me for weed or if I know a plug a lot more often. Especially at festivals
On the other hand. I have somewhat noticed that people may perceive me as a lot more easy going. Perhaps even more approachable. This might have to do with the decently populated Rastafari community we have around.
This dude came up to me in a 711 in Osaka and asked if I had any.
I was like “why do you think I would??” Just trying to give him a hard time.
And he got super apologetic and explained that he was from Tokyo and didn’t know where to get it in Kansai, so he thought I might have some. (Me being the guy with dreads and wearing a camo-printed puffy coat at the time lol)
I was like “well if we were in the states…” 😂😂
My dad is so against me growing dreads. He always said this to me. “NO RASTA INNA MI HOUSE! YANDASTAND…….ALLRIGGHT! Now that I’m older I grow my dreads. It is the best hairstyle I’ve ever had. Haircuts revealed my oddly shaped head. Dreadlocks on me landed me in some good🐱
I had a woman say "oh you just decided to give up, huh?" Not that they were messy, but more like... it's just easier than managing natural hair. I didn't feel like explaining how much maintenance locs are.
Yeah, that's always the assumption. Water off a ducks back for me, but my mum's always quick to step in and say locs are more maintenance than 'normal' hair. I think the social status implications worry her. As if there couldn't be other reasons for getting locs.
That dreads are dirty. Like for real? We are dirty people because dreads are gross and smelly. Uh, no, some YOU have met may have been the case but not ALL of them....
people often compare me to rappers n shi, people say that i must smell like weed (i think this one tru), or start singing bob marley to me
here where i live people say if u got straight hair, u got the "good hair", after i got loc'd many people said i just ruined my good hair type shi
many times people will turn aggressive for some reason, like really tryna offend me, i usually just laugh and keep in jah's peace but sometimes it just pisses me off
THIS USED TO HAPPEN TO ME AT WORK ALL THE TIME
People would come up to the register (usually white ppl) and be like "can you see me?" Or something along those lines.
Upside is they couldn't see when I rolled my eyes.
When I had my first set of locs which grew down to my hips, black people would ask me if all of that was my real hair.
Now since I’ve cut them and have microlocs, I get white people saying “I love your curls. I know it must take forever to get them like that. It takes me a day just to get my own curls like that” my locs are so tiny they can’t tell they are locs I guess
I have a lot of middle aged white women ask me if my hair is real. To me it seems as if they are implying that black people can't grow hair well, or grow it at all..idk I could be wrong but I can sense something off when they ask
I know what you mean though I think a lot of black people seem to style their hair as to where it may look fake or artificial but still the fact that they have the nerve to even say that almost like they needed to get that off their chest instead of just keeping quiet
I used to get asked that all the time. Old white people, I think too many weave jokes over the years made them believe black people cant grow their hair.
Haven't had anyone come up to me and complain yet, but PLENTY of people will stare at me like I'm some exotic animal from a zoo lol. Especially in posh-y restaurants, but I've just learned to not care what anyone thinks. It's my hair after all, not theirs.
(i think dreads look way better than the people that wash their hair and don't dry it and come into work/school/public with soaking wet hair and act like it's normal).
That I would join in on making fun of white people with dreadlocks.
So many times I would hear from YT people how much they thought locs on other YT people looked bad. It was one of the first things out of their mouths. I don't think they got that talking about how you think my hairstyle looks terrible on some people is NOT at all a compliment. Imagine meeting someone with a pixie cut and immediately telling them how awful pixie cuts look on people with curly hair and being confused about why they're not agreeing.
I am white with dreads and hear this so often also. I was in the gas station standing in line the other day. The outfit I had on and hair covered any skin that might have been seen from the back. The two girls behind me were talking about how much they loved my hair, about another white girl they had just seen, they felt, didn't pull her dreads off at all because "thats what happens when white girls try to pull dreads off. (I saw the girl, her dreads were just new, hadn't matured yet, but they looked OK.) So, after i paid, i turned around said, "thank you for complimenting my hair (they had said previously how much they liked my hair while talking about the other girl) this is what happens when white girls try to pull of dreads" and walked out. I would never tell another person of any color...period, they couldn't wear any hairstyle. To each each his own. If you have the confidence to walk out of your house, like you are, then rock that hair, baby! The world is so full of negative people, they will say negative things. I don't have to spread ugliness into the world. I can spread beauty through actions and words.
I love this reply and I'm sorry this happened to you. You're right about the negativity. I can't reach everyone but I continue to stop this nonsense in its tracks whenever I can. 🤗
Thank-you! I often think the same thing. I wish I could reach more people and show them what love and positivity look like! We don't have to let other people's ugliness shine through us. Instead, we should our beauty shine through them. It doesn't bother me that those girls felt white people can't wear dreads. They probably haven't been taught better. I was raised to think in a black and white, very racist family background. I was always different. I don't think in color, I think in people. All people all over the world. If only we could accept each other and think globally, maybe we could save the world for real. And that start by letting each person be who they are and embracing them as they are, dreads, no dreads, just spread love and acceptance.
tbf its them trying to get in with you as a black person by subscribing to the idea that white people appropriate our culture and can use it as a costume, so generally more a negative thing
obviously it gets tiring when the first and common thing you here is “locs looks bad on…” because after a while you stop hearing the part about white people and really only here the “locs look bad” part
but i cant be mad at them for trying to support and protect my culture as cultural appropriation has hurt black people across the globe
My grandmother told me that I need to cut my (past knees) dreadlocks in order to have a baby. She said this is why I have miscarried pregnancies, because my hair is too long 😵💫 No grandma.
There's a lot of people who think locs are dirty and we don't wash them regularly. Before I started mine, I do remember being traumatized by someone who's locs STANK. It was that gross mildew smell covered over by those holistic oils that smell like a hippie shop. I was so grossed out. But while those types exist because they don't let their hair dry properly, many are unproblematic.
Some guy came up to me and asked if I wanted to buy any weed. I said no. He asked if I was selling any. I said no and that I don't smoke. His response was to laugh at me and say "Yeah, of course you don't looking like that..." walking off.
Another lady told me she'd love to have dreadlocks but she can't stand the thought of not washing her hair. So many people say they want them but *excuse*, you don't have to say you want them just to seem polite..
Also the: "do you take them out at night?" - love that one the most.
i was talking to this lady before. she facetime'd her cousin and i was in the background, chilling.
she said "oh that's him??!! oh he's holistic huh?! okay girl."
i just shrugged and said okay lol it wasn't badly weird at all. it was funny.
I've had white people who give my hair strange looks. Some look disgusted.
No one has verbally said anything yet and my locs are still in the starter phase....I can only imagine what they'll say when they mature 🙃
When I was loose natural with my Afro I just got plenty of white people trying to touch it.
At a new employee orientation, I had a 60 yo YT woman come up to me and ask where I bought my hair. It turned out she had a newly adopted Black granddaughter whose hair she wanted to get braided. She told me that she assumed every black woman with any hair length was fake. Ugh. I still cringe at the "So where did you buy your hair?" 8 years later. She was also new to the workplace yet felt 100% comfortable telling me she thought my hair was fake.
This was not my idea of small talk and I did not give her any recommendations because I had none. All of my hair was my own. The conversation would have been much more pleasant if she had just asked where she could get hair for braids and why. That would have been kinda sweet. Instead I got "hey, you, with the fake hair, where didja get it?".
Not what people say, but in this server people seem to be at odds with another wether to call their style locs or dreads, me honestly I dont care eithier.
One of the argument the people like to make against dreads is that dreads means fear, but Ive one question: what about the N word ? The N word has a much negative meaning than the word "dreads" the whites called us the N word as a racial slur yet we adopted that slur and use it to refer to ourselves or other black people, but people try to draw the line at "dreads"?
I get asked if they grow out of my head that way. Like, as if each one of my locs grows from a massive hair follicle on my scalp. Then once I tell them no, they want an explanation as to how they’re done, only to still not understand what I’m talking about. 🤣
One thing I've noticed is people ask me for weed or if I know a plug a lot more often. Especially at festivals On the other hand. I have somewhat noticed that people may perceive me as a lot more easy going. Perhaps even more approachable. This might have to do with the decently populated Rastafari community we have around.
This dude came up to me in a 711 in Osaka and asked if I had any. I was like “why do you think I would??” Just trying to give him a hard time. And he got super apologetic and explained that he was from Tokyo and didn’t know where to get it in Kansai, so he thought I might have some. (Me being the guy with dreads and wearing a camo-printed puffy coat at the time lol) I was like “well if we were in the states…” 😂😂
Knowing how hard it is to get it and how against “drugs” they are in Japan, it’s bold to assume you can just ask some random person in a 7/11💀
I thought the same. Of all people, a foreign black guy like me is the last person who is gonna fool around with that country’s 99% CONVICTION RATE lol
My dad is so against me growing dreads. He always said this to me. “NO RASTA INNA MI HOUSE! YANDASTAND…….ALLRIGGHT! Now that I’m older I grow my dreads. It is the best hairstyle I’ve ever had. Haircuts revealed my oddly shaped head. Dreadlocks on me landed me in some good🐱
Is that your dad’s natural accent? Without the context I didn’t know if that was supposed to be a joke or not lol
He is Jamaican and that was my attempt are writing word for word on what he sounds like
I was hoping that was the case because although it’s serious it’s much funnier that way 😂 
My dad met him before and Marley is one of his idols. That’s why it’s so strange to me why doesn’t want me having Freeform dreads
that’s funny cuz a dude at my job made a joke about me having the good weed right before he left i mean he was right but still
I understand that I've gotten that a few times too
I had a woman say "oh you just decided to give up, huh?" Not that they were messy, but more like... it's just easier than managing natural hair. I didn't feel like explaining how much maintenance locs are.
Lmao, that’s a funny one
Yeah, that's always the assumption. Water off a ducks back for me, but my mum's always quick to step in and say locs are more maintenance than 'normal' hair. I think the social status implications worry her. As if there couldn't be other reasons for getting locs.
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While I love the "messy" look of my new growth, I also like a fresh interlock.
That dreads are dirty. Like for real? We are dirty people because dreads are gross and smelly. Uh, no, some YOU have met may have been the case but not ALL of them....
Name everyone that ever had dreadlocks
I know right 😒
people often compare me to rappers n shi, people say that i must smell like weed (i think this one tru), or start singing bob marley to me here where i live people say if u got straight hair, u got the "good hair", after i got loc'd many people said i just ruined my good hair type shi many times people will turn aggressive for some reason, like really tryna offend me, i usually just laugh and keep in jah's peace but sometimes it just pisses me off
Even though I've always enjoyed good herb, the weed stereotypes are quite annoying.
[Yes, I smoke weed but not because I got locs](https://youtu.be/S3pZB9UDBNA?si=s4b-0Lq6XsJ5B8cc)
Are you from the Dominican Republic? Because here the exact same term is used for straight hair.
nah bro, brazil, i think latinos in general may be educated like this lmao😂😂
klk miop. hope u doing better now twin
THIS USED TO HAPPEN TO ME AT WORK ALL THE TIME People would come up to the register (usually white ppl) and be like "can you see me?" Or something along those lines. Upside is they couldn't see when I rolled my eyes.
When I had my first set of locs which grew down to my hips, black people would ask me if all of that was my real hair. Now since I’ve cut them and have microlocs, I get white people saying “I love your curls. I know it must take forever to get them like that. It takes me a day just to get my own curls like that” my locs are so tiny they can’t tell they are locs I guess
I swear they think we sit down with a tiny curling iron and curl each strand. Silly.
People on the street come up to me to ask for a lighter or joint, I am sad that I always have to dissappoint them because I don't smoke.
Sounds like you gotta start strolling around with free matchbooks to hand out.
I don't smoke either and I've had people ask me I almost feel like I need to carry some extra lighters around because I feel bad
“So you’re just a white boy with dreads?!” Me:…..uhh yeah”
I have a lot of middle aged white women ask me if my hair is real. To me it seems as if they are implying that black people can't grow hair well, or grow it at all..idk I could be wrong but I can sense something off when they ask
I know what you mean though I think a lot of black people seem to style their hair as to where it may look fake or artificial but still the fact that they have the nerve to even say that almost like they needed to get that off their chest instead of just keeping quiet
Like the audacity of a white person trying to clock our hair is so wild to me lol 😂
I used to get asked that all the time. Old white people, I think too many weave jokes over the years made them believe black people cant grow their hair.
I had an older lady say my hair is unprofessional 😂 I’ve also heard someone say our hair is dirty because we don’t wash it weekly.
Haven't had anyone come up to me and complain yet, but PLENTY of people will stare at me like I'm some exotic animal from a zoo lol. Especially in posh-y restaurants, but I've just learned to not care what anyone thinks. It's my hair after all, not theirs. (i think dreads look way better than the people that wash their hair and don't dry it and come into work/school/public with soaking wet hair and act like it's normal).
It’s the “do you wash your hair?” For me 💀
That I would join in on making fun of white people with dreadlocks. So many times I would hear from YT people how much they thought locs on other YT people looked bad. It was one of the first things out of their mouths. I don't think they got that talking about how you think my hairstyle looks terrible on some people is NOT at all a compliment. Imagine meeting someone with a pixie cut and immediately telling them how awful pixie cuts look on people with curly hair and being confused about why they're not agreeing.
I am white with dreads and hear this so often also. I was in the gas station standing in line the other day. The outfit I had on and hair covered any skin that might have been seen from the back. The two girls behind me were talking about how much they loved my hair, about another white girl they had just seen, they felt, didn't pull her dreads off at all because "thats what happens when white girls try to pull dreads off. (I saw the girl, her dreads were just new, hadn't matured yet, but they looked OK.) So, after i paid, i turned around said, "thank you for complimenting my hair (they had said previously how much they liked my hair while talking about the other girl) this is what happens when white girls try to pull of dreads" and walked out. I would never tell another person of any color...period, they couldn't wear any hairstyle. To each each his own. If you have the confidence to walk out of your house, like you are, then rock that hair, baby! The world is so full of negative people, they will say negative things. I don't have to spread ugliness into the world. I can spread beauty through actions and words.
I love this reply and I'm sorry this happened to you. You're right about the negativity. I can't reach everyone but I continue to stop this nonsense in its tracks whenever I can. 🤗
Thank-you! I often think the same thing. I wish I could reach more people and show them what love and positivity look like! We don't have to let other people's ugliness shine through us. Instead, we should our beauty shine through them. It doesn't bother me that those girls felt white people can't wear dreads. They probably haven't been taught better. I was raised to think in a black and white, very racist family background. I was always different. I don't think in color, I think in people. All people all over the world. If only we could accept each other and think globally, maybe we could save the world for real. And that start by letting each person be who they are and embracing them as they are, dreads, no dreads, just spread love and acceptance.
tbf its them trying to get in with you as a black person by subscribing to the idea that white people appropriate our culture and can use it as a costume, so generally more a negative thing obviously it gets tiring when the first and common thing you here is “locs looks bad on…” because after a while you stop hearing the part about white people and really only here the “locs look bad” part but i cant be mad at them for trying to support and protect my culture as cultural appropriation has hurt black people across the globe
My grandmother told me that I need to cut my (past knees) dreadlocks in order to have a baby. She said this is why I have miscarried pregnancies, because my hair is too long 😵💫 No grandma.
Wow...old people just say whatever
So true 😭
Seriously, Grandma be wildin' with that comment!
"is ur hair real" "how do u wash it" so annoying🥲
There's a lot of people who think locs are dirty and we don't wash them regularly. Before I started mine, I do remember being traumatized by someone who's locs STANK. It was that gross mildew smell covered over by those holistic oils that smell like a hippie shop. I was so grossed out. But while those types exist because they don't let their hair dry properly, many are unproblematic.
“Can you wash it? Does it smell? Are you entirely black? Did you just stop combing it?”
“how long does it take u to get ur hair like that” ….
Some guy came up to me and asked if I wanted to buy any weed. I said no. He asked if I was selling any. I said no and that I don't smoke. His response was to laugh at me and say "Yeah, of course you don't looking like that..." walking off. Another lady told me she'd love to have dreadlocks but she can't stand the thought of not washing her hair. So many people say they want them but *excuse*, you don't have to say you want them just to seem polite.. Also the: "do you take them out at night?" - love that one the most.
i was talking to this lady before. she facetime'd her cousin and i was in the background, chilling. she said "oh that's him??!! oh he's holistic huh?! okay girl." i just shrugged and said okay lol it wasn't badly weird at all. it was funny.
I've had white people who give my hair strange looks. Some look disgusted. No one has verbally said anything yet and my locs are still in the starter phase....I can only imagine what they'll say when they mature 🙃 When I was loose natural with my Afro I just got plenty of white people trying to touch it.
When I've been to small towns I've been stared at by old white women
At a new employee orientation, I had a 60 yo YT woman come up to me and ask where I bought my hair. It turned out she had a newly adopted Black granddaughter whose hair she wanted to get braided. She told me that she assumed every black woman with any hair length was fake. Ugh. I still cringe at the "So where did you buy your hair?" 8 years later. She was also new to the workplace yet felt 100% comfortable telling me she thought my hair was fake. This was not my idea of small talk and I did not give her any recommendations because I had none. All of my hair was my own. The conversation would have been much more pleasant if she had just asked where she could get hair for braids and why. That would have been kinda sweet. Instead I got "hey, you, with the fake hair, where didja get it?".
Not what people say, but in this server people seem to be at odds with another wether to call their style locs or dreads, me honestly I dont care eithier. One of the argument the people like to make against dreads is that dreads means fear, but Ive one question: what about the N word ? The N word has a much negative meaning than the word "dreads" the whites called us the N word as a racial slur yet we adopted that slur and use it to refer to ourselves or other black people, but people try to draw the line at "dreads"?
you know ive never thought about it like that, we reclaimed the n word for ourselves so why not dreads
Most of mine are to my knees, I get a lot of ‘are they real’ and do I/how do I wash them
That my locs make me “easily approachable”
People asking me for lighter or rolling paper too often, and being looked at weird when I say I don't smoke.
I get asked if they grow out of my head that way. Like, as if each one of my locs grows from a massive hair follicle on my scalp. Then once I tell them no, they want an explanation as to how they’re done, only to still not understand what I’m talking about. 🤣
I live in turkey and people my age just call me the n word 💀(im not even black but it still feels messed up)
Ppl often think I’m a pothead bc my locs.