White people with dreadlocks... is it ok? Or is it cultural appropriation?

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The Canadian singer-songwriter Justin Bieber has been accused on social media of cultural appropriation for wearing his blond hair in dreadlocks. What is cultural appropriation and what is cultural appreciation? Kirsty Wark interviews Emma Dabiri, Chimene Suleyman and Ian Dunt.

 

[theteacher]

What I don't like is, as a black professional with dreads, people look down upon that. They say it's unprofessional, I say, "HOW?" But white people get dreads, it is something different.

I think Howard University urged their law students to cut their dreads