I was speaking socially. Largely, black people are credited with locs, thus influencing the opinion that white people with them are somehow acting inappropriately. Black people have been mistakenly identified as the sole owners of a cultural practice, and now any non-black participants are wrongly accused of culturally appropriating something that never started with black people to begin with.

No, this is your opinion. This is what you think, black people think. You have probably heard black people say this. Then you said "yes, that is what they mostly think. And since they mostly think this, it's safe to ASSUME they all think this, since you know, statistically I will be correct" without a single actual data point passing through your brain.

Yes, black people will sometimes feel that black people are the only people who can wear their head dreaded. But Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King Jr didn't march in Washington to get exclusive rights to hair styles. This is a largely controversial opinion in the black (and white) community, just like the idea that black people are the only one's who can say N*****, there is no consensus, beyond your own self actualized victim complex.

Stop pretending black ambassadors create legislation. Stop acting like there is a massive conspiracy preventing you from dreading your hair. I be shocked you even give a shit about the style beyond playing devil's advocate.