Your locs ARE dreadful. Here's why.

Why are they called dreadlocks, what is the meaning and origin of the term, and why does it matter? This is the first in a series of loc'd hot takes and potentially unpopular opinions, and I'm attempting to answer those questions while I remember the great "locs vs. dreads" debate of years past and give a little history lesson to back my claim that your locs actually are quite dreadful.

00:00 Opening statements & Hello
00:22 "Locs" vs. "Dreads" was a whole thing.
01:38 My beef with "nothing dreadful about my locs"
02:48 History: YBF & the Origin of "Dreadlocks"
05:06 History: The Mau Mau Warriors' Battle Against Colonization
05:50 History: Maroon Communities in the Americas
07:57 Closing statements, what it means to be dreadful, & Goodbye

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Works Cited:
1. Chevannes, Barry. "Rastafari and Other African-Caribbean Worldviews." https://www.google.com/books/edition/...
2. Eschert, Rebecca. "Natty Dreadlocks: The Study of the Youth Black Faith and the Bobo Dreads."
https://www.uvm.edu/~debate/dreadlibr...
3. Kimutai, Cyprian. "Why dreadlocks were an important symbol for Kenya's Mau Mau."
https://www.pulselive.co.ke/lifestyle...
4. "Maroon Communities in the Americas."
https://slaveryandremembrance.org/art...

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