Dreadlocks are indeed cultural appropriation... by black people

If there's one thing that the far-leftist social justice warriors love, is to have as many rhetorical, sociological and ideological weapons as possible to attack white people.

One prominent example among many is the concept of "cultural appropriation". Which, rather obviously, is only applied to white people and nobody else. Only white people ever engage in "cultural appropriation".

One particularly prominent example of this is the "dreadlocks" hair style, which some black SJW activists claim belong exclusively to black people and white people have no right to "appropriate" for themselves. This is one of those examples of "cultural appropriation" weapons that's being enforced with most aggressiveness and hostility, oftentimes even with physical assault (video evidence goes back quite many years).

What makes this particularly egregious and ironic is that this is indeed a genuine example of cultural appropriation... but not by white people. By black people.

With this I don't mean that black people saw some other peoples with the hair style and copied it (although that might also be a possibility, but it's not my point). What I mean that this is a very modern appropriation. Some black people have in recent years tried to literally appropriate this hair style for themselves and to claim exclusive rights to it.

Even though black people did not invent this hair style.

The hair style goes back literally millenia, and has been common in many cultures from all around the world. Even ancient Roman historians recount many Celtic soldiers having dreadlocks, some 2000+ years ago. Many vikings had dreadlocks. In India dreadlocks have likewise been used for several millenia, and there's historic records of this.

Dreadlocks are not an exclusive invention of African black people. It's only very recently, in the last decade or so, that some black activists in the United States have tried to appropriate them for themselves and claim exclusive rights, attacking, sometimes physically, any white person who dares to have that hair style.