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This post isn’t necessarily news, it’s just my own little rant that I felt like communicating.

Over the past couple weeks I’ve been surveying people regarding the subject of dreadlocks. I’ve asked questions to people I know of all races, ages, religions, styles, both male and female. I tried to get a really good cross-section of society. And you know, what I discovered surprised even me…and that’s not easy.

I asked them what they think about dreadlocks. Now, these are all people who have never worn dreadlocks. My VERY conservative roommate confided in me that she has wanted dreadlocks since she was a little kid. I was shocked. One of my friends who’s an activist and the most liberal girl I know…or so I thought…said that she hated dreadlocks, thought they were disgusting and that “dreadlocks are for black people.” I didn’t even know what to say. One 42 year old woman told me that she feels that dreadlocks give people the “wrong idea” about them, meaning if you have dreadlocks people will thing you use drugs. I didn’t invalidate any of these people for their various responses, but I have to say I was appalled at the negatives. Not because there were people who were opposed to dreadlocks, because of course there will always be haters of everything. My upset was how racist and idiotic the naysayers sounded. What they said sounded to me like something Archie Bunker would say.

Fortunately, over 80% of the people I surveyed gave dreadlocks a giant thumbs up, provided the dreadlocks are not too fat and are kept neat and clean. I’m glad to know that dreadlocks are making their way into mainstream society and are, for the most part, viewed as a positive aesthetic element of society. Of course, I didn’t survey people in Iowa or Wisconsin…so it’s probably a bit skewed, but there you go…the survey of the day.

Cheers.

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