when they came off the slave ships, hair matted and encrusted with blood, body tissue, and fecal matter, white slavers called them dreadlocks because they found them dreadful. The white supremacist mindset still finds natural, kinky African hair dreadful. And that’s why I’m careful to call them locs not dreadlocks unless I’m in certain company where it would take too much time to educate certain people on the back story. But people who call them locs know the back story.

my friend just now (via morenamagia)

And this even seems to account for the whole West Indian and Rastafari co-opting of the term “dreadlocks” since both are products of slavery

(via fearfullymade-locs)

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