Why do kids try to act like they're black and from the ghetto?

[Al B. Sure!]

Orange:

Kind of... it's modified Swahili... because these rich people in the suburbs are always trying to copy us, we had to develop a new language... or

Akente balumba semi kaneeka ballinda famou kenta sheneeka barumbi nana


Alkeneko

[Asher]

Speer, what do ya gots against us rich whitey nigs usin' yo' tight language? You should be proud us whities iz stealing yo' culture. Support Eminem, down wiff those posers like Tupac. What da hell wuz ya thinking, anyway?

All ya whitey suburban nigs iz da same. ***** beeotch *****, stealing our negroid culture. w0rd!

[monolith94]

Although speer has a history of being… ugggh I don't know how to put this… easily mockable… these most recent mockeries of him have been neither witty nor original. Making fun of names by saying "wateefo" makes fun of the person making the joke more than it does of ridiculous names.
"In my acceptance speech as Senior Class Pres, I said something to the effect of the student council's increase of income will lead to "mo money, mo probems" to curry the favor of these types of kids. Ugh."
#1 - Never curry favor in your acceptance speech… they've already voted you in for chrissake!!!
#2 - Don't diss that song: it's great!
One last point… better they act like they're from the ghetto than they're from the country club, in my opinion. My ranking from most to least annoying.
Country clubbers
Middle class republicans
Libretarians
Bling bling kids whose gold is chinese plastic
preps who think they're indie by wearing weezer glasses
hippies (only because of the hair though)

[orange]

sounds cool, i'll have to try that out! Thanks for the tip

[orange]

Originally posted by monolith94
Although speer has a history of being… ugggh I don't know how to put this… easily mockable… these most recent mockeries of him have been neither witty nor original. Making fun of names by saying "wateefo" makes fun of the person making the joke more than it does of ridiculous names.

It was an inside joke. Speer knew what i was referring to.

[Al B. Sure!]

Booby tinkle over there was mocking the name of my boy

[monolith94]

hehehehe…
ugh
boy is my face red!!!

[Al B. Sure!]

what? His name is actually Lateef... so orange did mess it up to mock it... Wateefo is not a name lol

[monolith94]

what a tangled web we weave…

[Ramo]

I went to high school in a place that could be reasonably called a ghetto, so some ghetto-isms have rubbed off on me. For instance, "y'all" (which also happens to be a redneck-ism ) and to a lesser extent "yo." 'Course, most other ghetto-isms I use only facetiously.

[reds4ever]

anyone loves the 'white kids trying to be cool' thing, check out the british comedian Sacha Cohen, he does a character called 'Ali G' whos basically a whigger but it's funny as ****, theres a few clips of him a Kazaa, it's old news in the UK but still recomended!

[Kaak]

ah geez...if i had started a thread with the title "* act like they're black *" I'd still be getting hell about being a racist...

How, exactly do black people act?
Isn't that a bit of an overgeneralization?

and you are all prejudice pigs for not noticing or commenting

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

That's what comes of repeatedly acting like a *****, Kaak. Enjoy your pity party.

[Lincoln]

The cure is simple. If all of the adults start dressing up like gangsters and talking and acting like they do then the kids will act and dress up like middle class, respectable citizens so that they can be rebels...

By the way, has anyone noticed how most rebels become exactly like each other? Rebellion is often nothing but another form of peer pressure. Few people have the guts to be true rebels for a real cause. I have known a few though. For example this one teenager I knew before he went to prison noticed me when I got a job there. He yelled out accross the dining hall in front of all the other inmates, "Hi Ray!". He knew the risk he was taking by respecting a cop like that but he did it anyway because he didn't care what other people thought. A rebel (in the good sense of the word) doesn't care what his friends think. I know a lot of "rebels" but most of them are just sheep.

[Dr Strangelove]

I think that many of the affectations that young people have put on through the ages are a sort of defense mechanism stemming from their uncomfortable position of being half way between adult and child in status. They feel like a sort of underclass, so they put on the trappings of a underclass.