Rock the Lock....
....so if you live in NYC then you know that everybody and their mother has dreadlocks. It use to be a time when you could use hairstyle to quickly mull through the crowd, no longer! back in the day if a cat had dreadlocks more than likely he was vegetarian, culturally aware, artistic, intellectual, and spiritual...or some combo of three or more of these. Now a days locks are more than likely just a fashion statement....no longer a political or lifestyle statement! I still love locks on men though....probably more than anything else I am a sucker for a man with dreadlocks down his back!
I love to grab a handful of them and tug...
I love to wash them for him and give him/them my good energy..
I love to just run my fingers through them as we sit next to each other...
I love Locks! they remind me of the story of the Mau Mau warriors of Kenya who wore them in the battles against the british colonizers. They remind me of ancient Kemet..(have u ever really looked at the pharoh's hair? it is dreadlocks) they remind me of my Mother who still has dread locks, she has my entire life and my dad who used to have them. They remind me of my childhood and the Black Liberation movement in NYC....I just wish that more people who wear them took it more to heart, and not just to the Salon!
Yes that little girl in both pics is me, rocking locks way back before it was cool.
yeah, i forgot you had locks back then...maybe that's why you have such an affinity...
ReplyDeleteahhhhhhh-men... that is one of many reasons i cut mine... i'll grow them back someday but as a lifer who wore them when they were considered dirty, ugly, medusa, mop-head, etc. this fad annoyed me. i was teased but amongst my friends, who also had locks, we were special. they were associated first and foremost with Rastas and reggae and Bob in my day. i don't like men with "styled" locs. i'm like, "dude you sat in a salon for 4 hours to have them braid your joint like that-ewwww". that is just me though!
ReplyDeleteyeah i feel u ...they used to call me jungle mama. i remember crying and begging my mom to cut them off. yup brooklyn 1980..dreadlocks and homemade african print cloths!
ReplyDeleteIt's so funny you said that because when I made the decision to loc my hair I had to do lots of research...I'm not saying I'm different but I've noticed that I have changed and it's not just because of my hair it's because of how aware I am of myself and the things around me..I'm much more happy to be just me (smile)
ReplyDeletemen with dreadlocks...YUMMY.
ReplyDeleteand i know you be doing your thing when it comes to taking care of a brotha's hair. you definitely put down the good energy.
you know here in the atl there aren't nearly as many folk with dreadlocks here. still too much of a corporate fear along with the general southern shit for black folk to really get down like that here.
i'm not getting rid of mine, though.
my sista' there are still plenty of us contiously containing our locks.....
ReplyDeleteJonnie- I know there are still quite a few..its just in NYC there seems to be fewer and fewer :o(
ReplyDeletebeing from mississippi, there are even less of us here wearing locks. my circle of friends are about the only ones with locks i hang with.
ReplyDeletemy boyfriend and i show a strong presence when we go out. both of us are locked and can we see the intimidation on people's faces sometimes.