A bredren of mine from Guyana is 46 years old, I am 32, he has been a dreadlocks rasta from his teens, but his knotty is shorter than mine, why, cos police chopped it off on eleven separate occasions. My auntie's late ex-husband had his knotty chopped off too, after 25 years growing them, and was locked up for three years, for one spliff. Bongo Tone Romney from Tiger Bay G.T., Rest In Uhuru, maybe someone out there might have known the bredren.
And now there are all these white people growing dreads with no overstanding of what people went through and still go through in the carrybeyond (not saying anyone of any race can't wear their hair how they feel to wear it... I talking bout people who claim our culture but have no sense of the history of it, who think rastafari is like the official "religion" of the carrybeyond or something, and that red gold and green are the "jamaican colors").
Well I just felt the need to vent there for a second.