> I once had a very bizarre argument with a dread-locked
> White dude while waiting for an awful play who
> attempted to explain to me why my nice haircut, clean
> shave and decent clothes were a *betrayal* (I wish I
> was making this up) of the *authentic rebel spirit* of
> the Black man.
One of the primary reasons I cut off my dreads back in '86 was that I just didn't like the company it put me in. The majority of other white people in dreadlocks that I'd met up to that time were rude assholes who smelled bad, aggressively bad. God knows, I can be rude, but I do bathe.
All the best,
John A