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To run around saying we must run government like a business is really a silly idea. It shows a total lack of understanding of the purposes of government.
— Former Congressman Mickey Edwards (R-OK)
” —Discussed in Notes from a Dreaded Republican.May 2012
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How do dreadlocks honor Jah?
I’ve studied enough about other religions, and dealt with enough bad assumptions about my own, to recognize when I don’t have a clue. I’d like someone to lay out for me how dreadlocks honor Jah. I understand the connection with Shiva, but Jah is a god I know very little about. Any Rastafari willing to help me understand?
Cultural appropriation →
theracecardproject.com
My submission to #theracecardproject is about white people and dreadlocks. I’m fascinated by the racial dimension of locks, which completely surprised me.
In 2011, NYPD Made More Stops Of Young Black Men Than The Total Number Of Young Black Men In New York →
thinkprogress.org
Wow. Not surprised, sadly.
I’m often skeptical of accusations of racism, but these stats are ridiculous.
What's your favorite dreadlocks word?
If you’ve got locks, or have friends who do, then you already know that dreadlocks have their own jargon. Each technique for creating them, maintaining them, and wearing them has its own name; some of them have more than one.
So I’m starting to build a dreadlocks glossary, and I want to know what your favorite jargon word is. And your friends, so please reblog, share, retweet, make a video of you reading this post and publish it to YouTube … the usual.
And yes, you can answer as many times as you like. And you can try to stump me — if you see me later asking what your dreadful word means, you have my permission to brag. But don’t make stuff up, okay? We’re all friends here.
Okay, so how long a repost chain can I create? This is posted to Diaspora which reposts to Tumblr which will sent to Facebook and Twitter. Maybe I should have Facebook send to Twitter, or finally get Google+? Will this help my Klout score? Annoy my friends? Influence my enemies?
“The last word is never found on the high road.”
—a TPW original
Why I don't trust Obama →
dreadedrepublican.wordpress.com
Yeah it looks good on the surface … that’s the point.
Does race matter for dreadlocks?
I started my dreadlocks because I was curious how it might change how I relate to the world. I wasn’t expecting that the biggest of those reactions would come from other people with locked hair.
First thing I was ignorant about: the controversy about whether wax is the best or worst thing ever invented when it comes to locking hair. For that question, I’m testing the dreadlocks wax hypothesis. (I’m taking the risk of my own free will, so it’s okay.)
But the second one surprised me even more: some people out there don’t like the idea of white folks having dreadlocks at all. Now I suppose it would mostly resolve the wax question if everyone who wanted locks had kinky hair (although I have one African-American friend who opted for a dread perm despite fitting that bill), but I wasn’t expecting it to actually offend anyone.
The most detailed answer I’ve gotten to the question of “why do you care” is this open letter to white people with dreadlocks. So what do you think? Should locks be racially reserved? Why or why not?
on the "no wax" side (that you started with wax on & then stop) have you attempted removal of the wax or did you just stop using it? I would love to see your results removing the wax vs. the side continued with wax.
Ugh, I wish this question had occurred to me sooner! No, I did not attempt to remove the wax from my “nature” side, and I tend to think that trying it now, two-thirds of the way through the test, would be too big a variable change. But now I kinda want to do another six months on that basis.
So I have to give some thought as to what I expect might be the results, and what it might prove. Heck, I don’t even know if there is wax in there or not, and can’t find out for sure unless I cut one off, so what can I learn by removing wax that may or may not exist? (I’m guessing that I can learn quite a bit, but I’m not really sure what, off the top of my head. Suggestions welcome.)
Dreadlocks glossary
I’ve had to learn a whole new language for my dreadlocks, and I’m finally starting to write it all down and make a glossary. But, I need your help. What special dreadlocks words do you know? Ask me about them and see if you can school me.
