bornabitch-allthedaysandnights:

starlight-eu:

marshmallowsweetheart:

bornabitch-allthedaysandnights:

lilicrevere:

White people can’t have dreads!

They just can’t! This isn’t even an opinion it’s a fact! Look:

Dreads:

Shit white people do:

Like let’s be honest, do those look ANYTHING alike? No? Didn’t think so🤷🏾‍♀️😂

I know they won’t stop doing this appropriative shit even though it doesn’t compare in any way to the real thing and white people just shouldn’t do it from a moral/ethical viewpoint but they will continue to so here’s the deal.

We’re no longer calling that shit white people do dreads, from now on when white people try (and fail) to imitate dreads they’ll be called matts.

Because it literally looks like they matted their hair together with glue to make grinch fingers sprout out they heads lol.

So one more time

Dreads^^^

Matts^^^

Live it, learn it, love it👌🏾

Thanks for coming to me TED talk

Just to add, it doesn’t “look like” matted hair, white people “dreadlocks” ARE MATTED HAIR. Which is extremely unsanitary and damaging to the hair.

Rt. White “dreads” cant be washed and cant be removed. Our hair DOES NOT do that (and neither did Celtic hair before y'all try to say “b b b but the irish!” that was braids boys). White mats are the result of not washing or maintaining the hair and are extremely damaging. They’re about the polar opposite of actual dreadlocs.

“B b b but the irish!”
There were more to the Celtics than the Irish. The Welsh and the Scots have depictions of both dreads and braids in their history. As do many other non-African cultures, for example in Ancient Greece, some of the earliest depictions of dreads date back to 3600 BC, with artwork and references to “snake-like hair.”

Stop telling people what they can and can not do. I’m not ranting at people for wearing Roman Outfits on Halloween, or these “Neo-Pagans” for having gender-specific sects. 

I’m an archeologist and I’ve specifically studied hairstyles from around the world. There are zero depictions of Celtic peoples with dreadlocks. There ARE depictions of Celtic peoples with braids and glibbe (the Celtic matted hairstyle which is basically bowl cut with the hair over the forehead longer and that longer forehead hair matted into a single beaver tail mass).

The 3600 bc represententions you are likely referring to are not actually Greek in origin and they don’t represent dreadlocks, they represent coiled curly hair. At that time, Minoans braided and curled their hair, they did not matt it. It wasn’t until ~530 that we see statues that people uneducated on Greek traditions assume are dreadlocks, in part because many of the kouros statues are damaged. More well preserved kouros statues clearly show that the hair is curls, not dreadlocks. This would also be supported by the fact that at the time, Greek men had rituals of combing and oiling their long hair. Also, it’s often believed these kouros statues represent Apollo, which was never described or represented at any point with matted hair.

The “snake like hair” reference was actually written about the Germanic peoples by Romans. At the time, the accepted hairstyle for Roman men was short hair, so the “snakes” is either referring to the Germanic practice of braiding the hair and then encasing it in protective mud for battle, or to the fact that Germanic men at the time had very long hair compared to the Romans. There’s also the additional fact that the ancient Romans are well known for exaggerating or lying about their enemies in war, so it’s important to take their statements with a grain of salt.

Stop spreading misinformation and falsehoods. Stop speaking from ignorance.

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31. chaosjakk said: If your hair isn’t made for the style, it shows. Like ill-fitting clothes makes some people look slothful, so does this. Forget racism or appropriation, it looks matted, it feels matted, and everyone i met doing poc hair to their head literally claim its an expression of ‘weed culture’, expressionism, bohemian chic, or whatever. Its not like anyone ever granted someone a pass cause you’re doing you. If you’re fair skin, idc, but you need the hair texture.
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