>. . but there is something <BR>>both culturally and spiritually significant to <BR>>locks, and to remove them from <BR>>that significance (to turn them into <BR>>a simple fashion) I find quite <BR>>disrespectful.<P>In all honesty, the MAJORITY of black people with their hair dread-locked are totally going against the true "cultural and spiritual" significance of the hairstyle. Dreadlocks are Rastafarian in origin. So if you find it disrespectful for Toshi to have dreads, then you should find it EQUALLY disrespectful to see Erykah Badu, Lenny Kravitz, Eric Benet, or any other non-rastafarian black american wearing their hair this way.<P>The true letter-of-the-law mentality of your argument should be this: If you do not believe that Emperor Haile Selaise (sp) is the true lord and savior of the world, then it is sacrilegious for you to have your hair that way, be you black, white, japanese, or whatever.<P>So if it's acceptable for non-rastafarian black americans to wear dreads, it should be just as acceptable for Toshi to rock 'em.<P>Just don't go to Jamaica <img src="http://www.okayplayer.com/dcforum/Images/happy.gif"> (j/k)<P><BR>PEACE<P>Doug (The New Guy)<BR>"While you exist in a perpetual state of mediocrity, I be droppin these on ya dome"<P>"How I made it? You salivated over my calibrated, raps that validated my ghetto credibility" - Monch