Ugh.
This is a beautifully simple place with beautiful people who are just the kindest folks you will ever meet.
But they don't like dreads.
Why not?
Hmmm. Not sure any of them could tell you.
Why do they have beards? They'll respond humbly that ..."well...Jesus had a beard, didn't he?"
Some people speculate that Jesus had dread locks.
Especially if the speculations about his pre-crucifiction nazarite vows is accurate.
Nazarites took vows that separated them from the rest of the world. Remember Sampson? He had those famous seven locks? He was a nazarite and perhaps Jesus was too. (Drew could explain those speculations better than I can...)
So...Jesus might have had dreads.
He sure didn't seem to rebuke anyone for their dreads anyway... Not to my knowledge.
Even so, the folks in this area just...don't want to hire someone with dreads. Some of them have said this right out, others have just implied it.
I love you Holmes County but you need to loosen up or my fiance and I are going to be a dirty-lookin pair of broke vagabonds.
I'm grateful for my jobs and for the non-issue my dreads have become at my work-places.
Maybe it's asking too big a favor...but could Holmes County forgive TWO dread-heads for their unusual hairstyles?
please?
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