Dreadlocks on white people

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Ricky_R

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karasu

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The reason for mockery is the same reason someone with a mullet gets mocked. It's the kind of person who most often rocks those hairstyles that invite scorn. And with dreadlocks, everyone knows one. The guy who smells like 2 week old socks and weed all the time. The guy who talks about herbal remedies non stop. The guy who has a Che poster on his wall but knows exactly jackshit about him. The guy who plays bob marley songs way too loud from an old boombox while sitting in a park. The guy who sits on a street with his shitty friends begging for money and cigarettes because a job is "too corporate man". The guy who plays bongos poorly in public places because he doesn't even have the marginal musical talent required to be the 'douchebag playing guitar in public for no reason' guy. That guy has dreadlocks. You can't help but see him in everyone who has them and it forces an instinctual guttural disgust regardless of whether it's warranted.
Your mind sounds small and ineffectual.
 

Ran rp

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Lot of harsh language aimed at a hairstyle in here.

White people with dreadlocks can be fine. But I'll say the same thing I say about dreadlocks period: TAKE CARE OF THEM.

Well kept dreadlocks are beautiful.

only good post

edit: oh no iread this wrong
 

royalan

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The reason for mockery is the same reason someone with a mullet gets mocked. It's the kind of person who most often rocks those hairstyles that invite scorn. And with dreadlocks, everyone knows one. The guy who smells like 2 week old socks and weed all the time. The guy who talks about herbal remedies non stop. The guy who has a Che poster on his wall but knows exactly jackshit about him. The guy who plays bob marley songs way too loud from an old boombox while sitting in a park. The guy who sits on a street with his shitty friends begging for money and cigarettes because a job is "too corporate man". The guy who plays bongos poorly in public places because he doesn't even have the marginal musical talent required to be the 'douchebag playing guitar in public for no reason' guy. That guy has dreadlocks. You can't help but see him in everyone who has them and it forces an instinctual guttural disgust regardless of whether it's warranted.

Speak for yourself.
 

labx

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the late 90's and early 2000's are way way back. Maybe its time too look at the bench and bring them back.
 

Tetra-9

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An ex-gf hit me up for some smanging and she showed up with dreadlocks. I was still pretty hippie-ish at the time and didn't even mind the hairy arm-pits but she looked bad with dreads. I have also seen white girls pull it off and be wildly hot. I think it can go both ways.
 

MercuryLS

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The reason for mockery is the same reason someone with a mullet gets mocked. It's the kind of person who most often rocks those hairstyles that invite scorn. And with dreadlocks, everyone knows one. The guy who smells like 2 week old socks and weed all the time. The guy who talks about herbal remedies non stop. The guy who has a Che poster on his wall but knows exactly jackshit about him. The guy who plays bob marley songs way too loud from an old boombox while sitting in a park. The guy who sits on a street with his shitty friends begging for money and cigarettes because a job is "too corporate man". The guy who plays bongos poorly in public places because he doesn't even have the marginal musical talent required to be the 'douchebag playing guitar in public for no reason' guy. That guy has dreadlocks. You can't help but see him in everyone who has them and it forces an instinctual guttural disgust regardless of whether it's warranted.

Goddamn, this shit is the truth. Well said lol.

Edit: this line of thinking only applies to white people with dreds. I think black people look fine/cool with them.
 

komplanen

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I got high yesterday and was thinking about this exact topic. However due to my state of mind at that particular moment, I thought all black people have dreadlocks by nature and I was contemplating whether white people with dreadlocks were being racist, sort of like blackface etc.
 
The only white person I've met in real life with dreadlocks knocked up my ex's sister when she was a freshman in college, plus it looks like shit so.
 

GavinGT

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I'm gonna go ahead and say no to dreadlocks on anybody. I was in Fry's Electronics yesterday and was in line behind this guy with dreadlocks. He had clearly just washed them because they were wet and he was constantly sort of airing them out. Every time he did this the most noxious smell came wafting in my direction. It was torturous.
 

ApharmdX

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I'm gonna go ahead and say no to dreadlocks on anybody. I was in Fry's Electronics yesterday and was in line behind this guy with dreadlocks. He had clearly just washed them because they were wet and he was constantly sort of airing them out. Every time he did this the most noxious smell came wafting in my direction. It was torturous.

Dreads don't necessarily stink if you take care of them. I had a girlfriend with dreadlocks back in the day and they weren't bad at all.
 
ITT: lots of people who think dreads, twists, and braids are the same thing.

OT: I'm not personally a fan of dreads at all. Braids and twists can look good if done right on anyone, though.
 
I locked up my hair towards the end of middle school. During high school I had an art class with this one white kid who really liked locks for some reason, he tried to lock his hair out. At one point he decided to give it up and his hair basically combed out. When I cut my hair senior year I had to cut almost all of it off, save an inch or two.

I might have been jealous he could save most of his hair.

Okay, irrelevant story but anyway. I've got nothing against dreads on anyone if they look good, which is usually the result of proper care and having a hair texture that will actually tangle/clump up like it should.
 

213372bu

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Very few people can pull off dreads well, much less white people.

It usually looks off, but I have seen a few people at concerts that pull it off well.

A google search of that American Idol guy and the lead singer of SOJA got me:


IMO, I've rarely seen a white girl pull off dreads, and if they do they almost always looks better without dreads.

Honestly this could be the only exception though:
 
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