a brief history of dreadlocks

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  • Let's dive into a brief history of dreadlocks! Did you learn something new in this video. Make sure to comment your thoughts! Like and Subscribe for more loc content!
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  • @MyiaLaShaun
    @MyiaLaShaun Před 4 měsíci +23

    I don’t want to dreadlocks, but I love my locks. They make me feel beautiful. I love seeing the world we get healthy.

  • @foggydayschedule7370
    @foggydayschedule7370 Před 4 měsíci +32

    My locs are for my expression of a natural state. I also feel rebellious against the social norm.

    • @CL_Easterling
      @CL_Easterling Před měsícem

      That's y rastas wore them, going against societal norms, unkempt, uncut.

  • @jenniferbrown7659
    @jenniferbrown7659 Před 4 měsíci +12

    I AM, 71, proudly wearing my sacred locks for 24 years. I envisioned my locks in a dream in 1968. My locks are power, light and health. My older brother was first in the 1970s. I AM proud and joyful to see/sea so many locks in my southern metro city. The colonizer descendants defined Dread as negative. I define Dreadlocks as Devine, Ancient and original. Asante 🌄🌍🌙

  • @monicajackson7266
    @monicajackson7266 Před 3 měsíci +10

    I started my locs 2 years ago and I’ve never felt beautiful until I decided to loc my hair. At 60 years old it’s like being awakened from a long nap. Refreshed and full of energy. I truly, believe there is power in locs. It’s who I was meant to be and I got a bonus My husband of 40 years can’t get enough of touching them.

    • @Begadgets
      @Begadgets Před 2 měsíci

      Your now 60 and ur brain seems shirking to the point that insects think better than you. There is no power in locs, it's only your immagination.

    • @RJ-mh3ox
      @RJ-mh3ox Před 2 měsíci +2

      Everyone in my family touches mine even my aunt who pretty much copied my hair 😂. There’s definitely power in them and we’re a community 🙏🏽

    • @rmrglobalproductionsinc9554
      @rmrglobalproductionsinc9554 Před měsícem +1

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  • @ronhill8533
    @ronhill8533 Před 4 měsíci +13

    14 years strong with my locks,I’ll die with these!

  • @princesspenny103
    @princesspenny103 Před 2 dny

    I like the term dreadlocks. I think we get wrapped up into what people think too much. Excellent video ❤

  • @kp7726
    @kp7726 Před 10 hodinami

    Appreciate your work and the depth of knowledge and presentation of the information. Knowing our interconnected histories is critical to our continued evolution.
    ❤🙏🏽 thank you

  • @Keenan-X
    @Keenan-X Před 5 dny

    10 years in! Aboriginal American with locs 🏹💯✊🏾

  • @WapajeaWalksOnWater
    @WapajeaWalksOnWater Před 2 měsíci +2

    Locking my hair, made me fall in love with it. I let it lock without twisting it.

  • @yinkavictoria
    @yinkavictoria Před 4 měsíci +14

    I enjoyed that girl, very informative 💕

  • @quintinburnett229
    @quintinburnett229 Před 3 měsíci +4

    I've had lox for 23 years, they are to my feet, i will never cut them, my lox make me feel empowered and connected with my ancestors... Its a way of life, more than just a hair style... culture and lineage

  • @aleialopez2855
    @aleialopez2855 Před 3 měsíci +3

    I just started my loc journey. I have worn my hair natural since 90's but never just let it grow. Always cut for simplicity. Now that I have made the commitment, I know that this is more than a trend and I treat it with the respect it is due. We all deserve to be free, whatever freedom and peace means to you (all viewers) I hope you have it. I do not want to worry about the negative connections some people view us by. I just want to be I

    • @lynnswindells8076
      @lynnswindells8076 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I love dreadlocks, and freedom to be me.💖👣🌅

  • @redroseabc5099
    @redroseabc5099 Před 4 měsíci +5

    This is so cool! Thanks so much for uploading this neat education dreadlock video! I have always thought that dreadlocks were awesome! 👣🌍

  • @simplesweetjoy16
    @simplesweetjoy16 Před 2 měsíci +1

    This was a really good learning opportunity. Glad you did it.

  • @Domo716
    @Domo716 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Loved this video and locs! I just keep my hair curly or in braids because I don’t have a spiritual meaning for that hairstyle personal. My brother does (he dyes them every color haha) I agree that hair, especially locs holds power or energy ❤

  • @DE100ify
    @DE100ify Před 3 měsíci +3

    Beautiful mini documentary, very informative.
    In my opinion I believe Rasta grew their locks from the influences of the hindu sadhus, bible texts and maybe the mau mau.
    I stand to be corrected

    • @HaroldWilson-vh2jf
      @HaroldWilson-vh2jf Před 3 měsíci +2

      Never, we rastas got our locks from our ancestors from Afrika. Thank you.

  • @shmoney8073
    @shmoney8073 Před 2 měsíci

    As a mixed black man, i started my dread journey a few months ago, it makes me feel more confident and I feel like I am myself. I've always shaved my head trying to hide my ethnicity and starting my dreadlocs have made me feel more like who I am, instead of hiding it, I am displaying it and I feel proud. They really do change you and it definitely is a spiritual journey for your mind and soul.

  • @SJking-gk4go
    @SJking-gk4go Před 3 měsíci +9

    Matted hair is definitely a sign of divinity.
    👍👍

  • @123kjaah
    @123kjaah Před 3 měsíci +3

    Lovely presentation overall very good, however there is a point of correction I have to state as an elder. Yes dread locks were worn in many ancient culture regarding indigenous people including the Hindus. In regards to African Americans wearing dreadlocks, that was purely influenced by Rastas from Jamaican over time. Initial wirhout a doubt, Rastafarians from Jamaica were rejected and scorned by African Africans and understandably so but it was a shock to their culture in the USA. It was over time that Jamaicans who establish themselves in major cities like Miami, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington D.C but especially NEW YORK CITY. It was there that African Americans has to live among dreadlocks wear people for decades. The rudeboy Jamaican image because trendy in NYC and was promoted in many music video in the late 80s and all through the 90s, Rapper like Das EFX, The Lost Boyz, Busta Rhymes, Lauryn Hill and many more, it gain a COOL IMAGE EFFECT after a few generations, the Black Americans first accepted braids in men's hair which was revolutionary and looked down upon but that evolved in accepting dreadlocks, however make no mistake, when Jamaican Rastafarians first started to migrate to the USA they very looked at as the worse and refered to as the BANANA BOAT PEOPLE. Dreadlock was not a thing until Jamaican Rasta came to the USA and as it gain notoriety in music videos and movies it is what it is now... Bless up 🙏🏾

  • @roberth2627
    @roberth2627 Před 2 měsíci

    Very informative video..my lady back in the 70's turned me on to dreadlocks in NYC ..she was a big fan of Bob Marley. I hope if you do another video on locks, that you include a picture of a statue of the pharaoh Amenemhat 111 of the 12th dynasty BC as a priest; who is depicted with very large locks very similar to Bob Marely

  • @Cokoanut
    @Cokoanut Před 18 dny

    I love my dreads! I've only had them for 3 years now. The term does not offend me but I was also raised by Rastafarins. Some of my non rasta relatives have dreads too. None of us are offended by this term.

  • @colindevine3233
    @colindevine3233 Před 2 měsíci

    RASTA MARLEY MAN !

  • @TheAAdele05
    @TheAAdele05 Před 2 měsíci

    Awesome video!!! A job well done!
    My locs (13 years and have been cut twice) are down past my knees and I absolutely love them! I love to see men with locs. I hate the word dreads/dread locs and I do not care for the looks of Freeform locs. But, to each their own.

  • @litaproctor1512
    @litaproctor1512 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Very nice video!! There are two other African cultures, that wears locs as a symbol of religion and resistance most people don't know about. The Baye Fall sect of Senegal, are Islamic and they have been wearing locs for over a century . Founded by Ahmadou Bamba, a resistance fighter to the French in Senegal.They could also be identified by the patchwork fabric they wear (Ankara etc). The other one is, the Bahitawi hermit monks of Ethiopia. Rastafarians would more closely associate locs tradition to them, than the Mau Mau of Kenya. I've been wearing locs since 1982.

  • @minokawaph704
    @minokawaph704 Před 2 dny

    If the way your natural hair grows makes you ugly, and wearing locs gives back that confidence, then by all means wear locs.

  • @ryanharlan1948
    @ryanharlan1948 Před 3 měsíci +4

    Shiva

  • @krakmynutz
    @krakmynutz Před 3 měsíci +2

    I love I locs man. I do think of doing it fully in free form though, just to be closer to Jah. I nuh feel no way bout calling it Dread locs, caah babylon is (physically) Dread so in order to survive these times, Rasta had to be (spiritually) Dread and Terrible. I man yout dem need fi remember that.

  • @chronicfatiguehermithiker3022
    @chronicfatiguehermithiker3022 Před 4 měsíci +7

    The ancient Elamites and the Hebrews also wore locs, there are Assyrian carvings showing them captured as soldiers or as conquered people and some wearing locs; that’s like 3000 years ago. For me, locs is the only way I can wear my hair because my hair is too fragile to handle loose; it was never able to handle chemicals or manipulation, which means no extensions or braids, only wigs. I don’t care how people refer to them I only care that people allow others to wear it if they want to, and not expect everyone to view them spiritually. The Rastas said locs hold energy, I believe all hair hold energy but concentrated hair (locs) may hold more, maybe brushing helps to release some of it; I say this because I know of someone who didn’t want locs because of the energy.

    • @JOSETTEBIANCA
      @JOSETTEBIANCA  Před 4 měsíci +2

      Hebrews actually didn’t wear locs. I’m curious as to where you read or heard that. Assyrians were known for their thick, black curly hair.
      And yes I had a similar experience with getting extensions when I had loose natural hair. My scalp became inflamed due to the chemicals in the fake hair.
      Locs are the best hairstyle for me hands down.

    • @chronicfatiguehermithiker3022
      @chronicfatiguehermithiker3022 Před 4 měsíci

      @@JOSETTEBIANCA I did a search on ancient Israelites/hebrews then switched the search results to “images”. In some of the images are prisoners of war; the ones with the fringes at their hem are the Hebrews. In some images are entertainers.

    • @jadsadd28
      @jadsadd28 Před 4 měsíci

      @@chronicfatiguehermithiker3022those are not purposeful dreadlocks, if your hair is curly and not washed or combed for a long time it will matte up this is what happened to the assyrians,they did not purposefully let the hair matte and loc up

  • @d4ni.fds_br
    @d4ni.fds_br Před 25 dny +1

    Im brazilian of african ancestry. Im tryna get locs, but im not sure if i wanna ruin my curls for it. should i got for it?

  • @shantibahadoersingh3148
    @shantibahadoersingh3148 Před 3 měsíci +3

    🙏🏽🕉️

  • @thatkid-ry7sv
    @thatkid-ry7sv Před 21 dnem

    You are so beautiful❤

  • @kudraabdulaziz3096
    @kudraabdulaziz3096 Před 2 měsíci

    I've had looks for 14 years now, I feel complete with them and inshaAllah I shall have them for the rest of my life. I don't find the term dreadlocks offensive instead I see it as a term of endearment.

  • @hugomakepeace6907
    @hugomakepeace6907 Před 2 měsíci

    To my sheer surprise, my hair began to locs itself when I was going thru hard hard times at about 27 years of age...probably due to being so inspired by Rastafari since my teens it came as a blessing to me...like a crown I had been given in recognition of the tribulation I had been through for the sake of Truth. At some point, feeling I had dishonoured them, I cut them off, and felt terrible for ages... but the same thing happned again, and this time I have kept them to this day... (but strangely, I woke from a nightmare this morning in which, in a moment of "absent-mindedness" I had cut them off again, and bleached the spikey remains!!...I was traumatized in the dream, and felt it for hours after waking up! Still ot sure what to make of it, other than a warning not to do it...😬) ...they are definitely a strength, as part of my covenant with I Father....the only One who knows, and can judge I...Selah 🙏

  • @SasukeUchiha-py8pu
    @SasukeUchiha-py8pu Před 4 měsíci +2

    Didn’t know the Masai had dreads!

  • @dynamic9016
    @dynamic9016 Před 3 měsíci

    Peace.

  • @marsiyahsteeltrap6536
    @marsiyahsteeltrap6536 Před 2 měsíci

    Locs were worn in ancient black Briton by the people in the western isles and Scotland. Africans were not brought to the English colony on the American shores, they were black British.

  • @Ithorough
    @Ithorough Před 2 měsíci

    From the beginning of time in the center of Pangea sacred and divine ,we wore dreads in Kemet ancient Egypt they were an example of power wandering Sadhus and shamans shivite followers of Sheba in ancient Hindu tradition to connect with the Divine for enlightenment as a dedication to our spiritual selves in the vedic scriptures dreadlocks signify power also deep spiritual healing(copyrighted)
    Those are my lyrics to a song that I'm about to release I turned to the Rastafari at 21 but now I identify myself with the first tribe of humankind going back to the beginning to the first mother of creation.

  • @nevillemurray7141
    @nevillemurray7141 Před 2 měsíci

    Highly bless momo history rastafar I selah

  • @user-ww5vv6lh7x
    @user-ww5vv6lh7x Před 2 měsíci

    Aum namah Shivaya😊

  • @SaxandRelax
    @SaxandRelax Před měsícem +1

    Maasai pronounced Muh-sigh

    • @JOSETTEBIANCA
      @JOSETTEBIANCA  Před měsícem +1

      Ahh, you’re right, I’ll keep that in mind for my next video👍🏾

    • @SaxandRelax
      @SaxandRelax Před měsícem

      @@JOSETTEBIANCA 😁🫶🏽

  • @jaredasherotto
    @jaredasherotto Před 2 měsíci

    I am white, possibly part Cherokee. Never was planning on getting locs. When I was working two full time jobs for about 2 years, my hair naturally started locking up. Working in kitchens, I always wore a beanie. And I never got around to buying a comb or brush. They didn't look that great, and due to my hair type/balding, I ended up cutting them off. Would that be considered cultural appropriation?

  • @kayjohnson9786
    @kayjohnson9786 Před 3 měsíci

    The movement in Kenya had no influence on Rasta.Better you say India had a influence.We did live alongside and even marry them.Its the Rasta movement why so many Americans wear locks.

  • @stanleyedwardrangitauira3190

    There's nothing wrong with wearing dread lock only if you are still young but police don't like it to bad I like looking at people wearing dreadlocks😂😊😊❤

  • @CL_Easterling
    @CL_Easterling Před měsícem

    Real dreds aren't a hairstyle becauseit isn't styled in like afros or cornrows, it's how the hair grows.

  • @prenticeperry
    @prenticeperry Před 19 dny

    One must understand that, Locks are from The Ancient Egyptian Kemetic System, whereby the Kings (pharaoh) and Temple Priest (Priest wore Locks until after their graduation from the Temple education and service from 4yrs to 40yrs) where required to wear them for spiritual reasons. Locks are Locks and Not Dread at all to those of Afrikan descent, the usage of the word "dread" to Locks is a insult to the Afrikan Ancestral ideology. 🎤

  • @apollyon1
    @apollyon1 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Hi, European cultures have thousands of years with dreadlocks. Polish and Eastern European witches wore different dreads depending on their magical specialty.
    Tieing wool dreadlocks into hair is a continuing tradition that goes back thousands of years before Christ.

    • @JOSETTEBIANCA
      @JOSETTEBIANCA  Před 4 měsíci +8

      Hi thanks for your comment. I was reading about the presence of dreadlocks within Europe during my research for this video. The Polish had what is called a Polish Plait. It was a mass of matted dirty hair which formed into something that looks like a beaver tail. It was believed that the plait took illness out of the body. This hairstyle is not dreadlocks. In terms of European folklore, there were fables about fairies who tied knots or tangles into people’s hair while they slept. (mentioned in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet). But this could be removed easily. In terms of witches, I didn’t find conclusive evidence that suggested they wore dreadlocks.

    • @jadsadd28
      @jadsadd28 Před 4 měsíci +2

      this is not true i believe it was called a beaver tail not dreadlocs

    • @freedomsong9747
      @freedomsong9747 Před 3 měsíci

      Those polish witches were just nasty and didn’t wash or comb their hair or showered 😂😂

    • @MegatoneMyCall
      @MegatoneMyCall Před 2 měsíci

      Have you too also heard the one about the beaver dressed in locs?

    • @justincredible303
      @justincredible303 Před 20 dny

      Pretty accurate actually. Also it was a popular style in minoan culture too.

  • @andreamessiasgomes7118
    @andreamessiasgomes7118 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Is anyone here who could help me i need to know the truth! Raastafari did hindus help them to become like that their matted dreadlocks n all because they say bo. Marley was a hindu sadhu

    • @HaroldWilson-vh2jf
      @HaroldWilson-vh2jf Před 3 měsíci +1

      Somehow the world 🌍 thinks that Bob Marley was the first rastas in Jamaica. There were rastas in Jamaica and the Caribbean not to mention Afrika before Bob was born. And our locks wearing comes from our ancestors from Afrika.

    • @SJking-gk4go
      @SJking-gk4go Před 3 měsíci

      Andrea, don't bother about indians.
      They don't know that Buddha and shiva all came from Afrika.
      They have been brainwashed by bramins for 2000yrs. Their books were only written during gupta period.
      It was the Aethiopians that took the culture to india.😊

    • @SJking-gk4go
      @SJking-gk4go Před 3 měsíci

      Bob Marley is my favorite singer.
      Have you noticed that the colors of Afrika is same as indian flag.😊

    • @andreamessiasgomes7118
      @andreamessiasgomes7118 Před 3 měsíci

      @@SJking-gk4go are you blind? I think your confused with ivory coast flag and one another, if you see even Irish flag is similar

    • @SJking-gk4go
      @SJking-gk4go Před 3 měsíci

      @@andreamessiasgomes7118
      🤣🤣🤣
      I was being sarcastic, indians claims everything to belong to them.

  • @d9daprogrammer
    @d9daprogrammer Před 3 měsíci

    The term Rastafarism is actually disrespectful to Rastafari due to the fact Rastafari cannot be colonized by colonialism and Rastafari is a lifestyle not a religion so it cannot and will never be categorize in a ism. Dread locs depending on which tribe you reason with can mean many different things, dread sometimes speak of the hardship forced on by oppressors. Great perspective though.

    • @MegatoneMyCall
      @MegatoneMyCall Před 2 měsíci

      A bight yuh bright r a di they lite?Fully fully dunce r a di school lunch ya come program wid?

    • @d9daprogrammer
      @d9daprogrammer Před 2 měsíci

      @@MegatoneMyCall You can clarify with any Rasta. Rastafarism is not a terminology used to speak of Rasta. 🤣 but this new generation of follow fashion Dreads would not know that over even overstand it.

  • @Caribbeanmystic
    @Caribbeanmystic Před měsícem

    Number 3. Rastafari!

  • @mikepistol2671
    @mikepistol2671 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Ms Bianca is a fox

  • @kevinminsi7871
    @kevinminsi7871 Před 2 měsíci

    Come back to Jesus
    1 Timothy 2 : 9
    Genesis 1 : 26 - 31
    And repent !

  • @user-di7qr6bc5i
    @user-di7qr6bc5i Před 3 měsíci +1

    It’s Indian mostly Hindu every piece of hair has a meaning nothing to do with African

    • @jmckenzie3443
      @jmckenzie3443 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Foolishness. India was first inhabited by African.

    • @raxeev
      @raxeev Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@jmckenzie3443
      Ohh 😂😂😂😂

  • @lenaj5629
    @lenaj5629 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Nothing dreadful about locks.

  • @denisejohnson2747
    @denisejohnson2747 Před 3 měsíci

    The Buffalo soldiers were The Indigenous...

  • @CHILLDOUTMAN
    @CHILLDOUTMAN Před 3 měsíci +1

    1500 bc Hindu text 😂😂😂 . Try 35000 year's and you'll be closer to the truths than what you've been led to believe.

  • @stonepony2285
    @stonepony2285 Před 4 měsíci +4

    You are a little off point 😢

  • @rexbrown2409
    @rexbrown2409 Před 3 měsíci

    Rastafari is a way of life, not a religion or .

  • @MacacoCalisthenics
    @MacacoCalisthenics Před 2 měsíci

    wanna a brief history of dreadlocks ? first open eyes , second open ur bible in genesis

  • @MacacoCalisthenics
    @MacacoCalisthenics Před 2 měsíci +1

    go read ur bible thats the history of dreadlocks