All hair will lock if you let it. The rejection of things believed to be Babylonian inventions in my opinion is somewhat a afterthought to the primary belief that we should not cut our hair, beards or flesh. Just having dreadlocks has always been anyone ever needed to know to accept me (talking about rasta acceptance) no questions of why or how have ever been asked of me. Much to the opposite, no one feels I am showing any disrespect, in fact I get respect where I go from rasta that I don't know. Countless times I have been saluted and greeted with various comments, comments I would compare to a catholic priest or church goer saying "peace be with you"

Now there is a dread, then there is a rasta. Some people lock their hair out of vanity or style. If I see a person like this I can almost immediately determine them as just a dread. People see my appearance and they know what is in my heart, and know that they can just talk to me for no reason, it is a good feeling, like "we're all in this together"