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Originally posted by Poplife:
Dag, I forget that I'm not talking to close circle of natural friends.
"Dreadful" is a sarcastic term my friends and I concocted to describe what a lot of hair . We don't use it as a derogatory term...more like a explanation of texture. Like I said, we used it to describe hair that "dreads" on it's own. I say "dreadlock" because if you just say "loc" it's a slightly different look. Locs are tubular and Dreads are more angular.
I will rephase with just for you. 
"My new growth was very tightly coiled when I first stopped perming."
New growth is NOT the true natural texture. As Serenity said, it's the fake me out natural that still has the chemicals on it that seeped through the scalp. It takes a while for your hair to purify itself. After that's done your true hair will come out. That's why I personally don't count new growth as natural hair.
Good hair is hair that does exactly what you want. 
Whether you perm or not, the tone you used when talking about nappy hair lead me to believe that you don't like it. You tell me which is worse: A black person with kinky hair that hates it, or a black person with "mixed"/straight hair that hates kinks?
Both are self-defeating.
[This message has been edited by Poplife (edited January 25, 2001).]
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Thanks for the explaination on what you meant by dreadful, however, it does make me think of the folks that banter the "N" word around casually and talk about how we now 'own the word" and have 'turned it into something good." But I degress...this ain't about that! I wonder where the term 'dreadlocks' first came from. Does anyone know?
Please, help me understand what in my 'tone' of writing about nappy hair made you assume that I don't like it?? I have re-read all of my posts and I'm just not seeing it! Help a sista out!!
Hey, and how do you do that quote in the middle of your page thingie? I wanna do that too!!
[This message has been edited by Eclipse (edited January 26, 2001).]