Three speakers trace dreadlocks from slavery, when lack of combs forced hair to grow long, through Rastafarian spirituality to modern hair discrimination in Africa and the US. They discuss practicing both Christianity and traditional African religion, and how colonial standards still pressure Black people to hide their natural hair.
Wow.
And right at the kitchen, that's where the female sleeps. So when they set the fire here, all the heat goes straight to the dungeons. Oh, the heat is going to lead to the dungeons. Right there, that's a wall, and under it are the addicts. So it's like a big thing, like a break, not a big break.
That's freaking Crazy. So the dungeon is right below. Yes. So they're going to feel the heat, right? That's fucked up. Straight evil. Straight evil. Oh my goodness.
Oh my goodness.
Huh? The prophetess I met with, my friend, yes, she said, what do I know about dreadlocks? I was like, yeah, the trick behind the dreadlocks is our forefathers don't like the dreadlocks because it reminds them about the slavery. They have no comb, they have no barber, no nothing. So being through the whole process of the slavery, their hair grew longer and it turns to dreadlocks.
Really?
That's how the dreadlocks begins. There was no comb right then, there was no barber, nobody's barbering nobody.
So is it, is it called dreadlocks? Because someone said they didn't want the dread.
The dreadlocks is maybe you fix it, you cutting off. Okay. Jamaicans make it like a church. That's the Rastafarian. You have to be baptized to be a Rastafarian. So when you cut like how I cut and I shave, I'm not a Rastafarian. So they classify like you have dreadlocks. That's the difference. So I was like, if I pull this out, I'm trying to portray something, but don't take it to the wrong understanding. That's the meaning. So people think like once you have dreadlocks, you smoke. No, because back in the day there's no comb, no blade, nobody shaving. Your beard, everything is all over you, right? So that's how it started.
The student was, uh, who went to Adogbo, yes sir, he was retained. Got the address, good grades, and they took—
because he had dreadlocks, oil was extremely good. So even in Africa, they don't want us to wear our hair.
They want you to put on a wig, like they don't want you to grow your own hair. That's what the white man told us.
That's what we deal with in America.
What my brother is saying right now, when you go to church, the people seem to be evil because they're there. But back in the days, our forefathers don't have comb, no nothing, so they let the hair to grow. And I, where I'm coming from, he knows it.
Yes, sir.
Yes. So I practice the two, Christianity and traditional African religion. So in my house, after when we enter into arguments— argument is my food when it comes to religion.
Yes, sir.
Oh yes, you can't defeat me with argument when it comes to Christianity and African traditional religion. That's why I specialize. So you can't defeat me with arguments. So I was telling my brother, brother, come on, come on, raise your case. Let me tell you the truth, because he is a— he is a pastor.
Yes, sir.
So all of them say, hey, my brother, come on, come down, let me tell you the truth. The truth is this. So you, you, I don't know which religion you belong to, either you're Christian. Yes, I belong to the two. Before they brought the Bible, our fathers, our ancestors know about God. They knew God.
Come on, sir. They knew God. Yes, sir.
They knew God. You see, when you get this book, uh, The Stolen Legacy.
Yes, sir. So can I ask you a question? And I'm sorry, I'm just very curious. Do you feel like you can still be a Christian even with all of this stuff that you see happen in the name of Jesus?
Is it hard or is it—
yeah, and I'm just asking, I'm just curious.
You see, I'm a type of Christian which I don't go to church all the time, being the church from morning to evening. Yeah, you know, I will read the Bible, don't steal, don't kill, don't— I only fully follow the principle, but not to go to the church and the pastor will be come and bring the money and he'll be used to buy big cars and I'll be walking. No, I don't do that. Yes, so the kind of Christianity, the Christian that I worship, it's only— it's known to me alone. Yes, sir. Yeah, it's true, you ain't God. Yes. But when you go to traditional religion, come on, that's what belongs to. Yes, sir. So every year we go to our hometown. He knows it, we are the warriors. So you went there, pacify the gods, do a lot of things, then come back. Yes, that is me, that is me. So every year you go to— though I was not born in, but I know how to speak the language.
Yes, sir.
I'm proud to be a—
Yes, sir.
Yes, but telling people when I come to work, oh, I'm working. Yes, but I tell the truth. So when I meet brothers from diaspora like this, I become so happy.
Thank you.
I've met my people.
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank
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