Nashville junior Deconious Greene, 24, became interested in locing his hair in 2009. He plans on cutting his hair after he graduates college. “I like evenness, the start of my freshman year of high school is when I started my dreads and I will cut them after I graduate college to dignify the long process it has taken to come this far in my succession.” Significance of dreads represents a tree. The roots of the tree that supports the tree, it’s the roots. They grow and I’m the tree of myself and I’m getting stronger as my hair grows and as my journey continues. I am encountering all these good things and bad things and all that is coming to me with all that is my hair.” “I’ve been discriminated in corporate companies. if you have the same length of hair as someone of another race, you are less likely to get that job because your hair is natural even if it is kept and I feel like that is unfair,” Greene said.