[Mb-hair] Re: segregated is a state of mind

[richard haase]

thats why i grew my hair long too
but it fell out on top so i have to watch myself
i mean the shakespeare image is okay
but i have to watch myself or i can evoke bozo on the spot
if im not careful

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leo" <peacefreak at metrocast.net>
To: <mb-hair at islandlists.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 8:48 PM
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: segregated is a state of mind


> Your words speak the truth T. Joe; that's also why I grew my hair and why
> the title HAIR is so right on! HAIR (the musical and much more) represents
> freedom and males growing their hair also represented the same freedom.
The
> freedom to break away from the constraints of mom, dad, apple pie, and all
> "the brainwashed people". My long hair meant/means that I rejected the
> A-typical societal values. It meant I wanna do my own thing. It meant
screw
> you Tricky Dicky & take a hike Hubert "Humphrey Dumphrey". And, like you,
it
> meant that I was siding with the freaks, the misfits, the black brothers &
> sisters, and the drop outs. I know being a hippie is a state of mind, a
> headset, and a free spirit. But it was groovy to grow that hair as a
symbol
> of THIS is what I represent mother fucker!!! My country, love it or change
> it baby!! I'll split to Canada to shaft the draft but you won't make me
> leave this country cuz I've got something to say and if I'm a royal pain
in
> one's ass while I'm saying it, so be it. HAIR spoke to the people and
raised
> the awareness of our cause to countless theatre goers. My hair also spoke
> volumes about where I was coming from.
> In the words of someone (whose name has eluded me at the moment), "Laugh
> mister businessman; say my hair's too long. Say my clothes are dirty and
my
> principles are wrong. Laugh mister businessman who screams for law & order
> and keep right on laughing cuz I'm balling your daughter!"
> "Almost cut my hair; it happened just the other day. It was getting kinda
> long. Guess you could say it was in my way. But I didn't and I wonder why.
> Guess I feel like letting my freak flag fly and I feel like I owe it to
> someone!" - CSNY
> And Katie you keep on keeping on sister; it'll all happen just the way
it's
> supposed to as long as you continue to do the legwork.
>
> PEACE,
> Leo
>
>
> From: "Sibley Smith" <sjsmith at njvvmf.org>
> Subject: [Mb-hair] segregated is a state of mind
>
>
>   ...................................Here's a take of mine on male's long
> hair as a political symbol:  As Jimi Hendrix sang, "Let my Freak Flag
fly,"
> and as hippies were also known to themselves as "Freaks," I saw my long
hair
> as being (yes, among other things, too) a symbol that I was a friend of
the
> African American.  Blacks (as were any minority) were treated as if they
> were freaks by America's established white society.  My long hair meant
(to
> me, anyway) that I was voluntarily being a freak to The Establishment.  I
> was throwing my lot in with blacks, hispanics, bearded ladies, giants,
> "little people," yeah, folks usually only relegated to the circus side
show,
> much in the way I see that Claude threw his lot in with the Draftee GIs
sent
> to 'Nam.  Long-Hairs were ostracized and hated by the Establishment no
less
> and maybe more so than were the average
> black.................................
>
>  With love,
>
>  Tioga
>
>
>
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