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

[chequita guevara]

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

Originally posted by johncmcleod
It really pisses me off. I live in a small town that is made up of hicks, but the kids think they're from the ghetto. Phrases like, "I'm trippin'", "Foo", "G", and "Yo" are very common. All of them wear really baggy clothing and chains. It is so stupid.

The most important question has yet to be asked.

Why do you care?

What, should they all have Southern accents, drive pick-ups, and wear white hoods? BTW, for your information, they are not "acting Black" you racist little cracker, they are acting hip-hop, which is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic culture, and it's global.

Get off your high horse and stop worring about how other people act if it's not hurting anyonce else. You know it's called business, get some.

[klesh]

Word up che.

[monolith94]

"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..."
The teens I knew and know would just laugh at their parents and keep acting like they've always been acting, like normal human beings.

[Kaak]

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

actually, i think it is more firmly rooted in your hypocrisy

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Oh boo-hoo, Kaak. Boo-hoo.

Seeing as all the other participants on this thread are also damned as hypocrites by inclusion, I think you can rack up a few more notches on the "People who think Kaak's an arsehole" list.

[Kaak]

i'm not the one whimpering here. I just think if people are going to preach, they should stick by what they say.

[Zero]

Originally posted by Lincoln

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.

You mean like jazz? alternative? punk rock? and recently Rap? They all started as a one form or another to break away from mainstream only to be one itself. I don;t find that their genuine-ness has been tainted just because they have become part of the main stream, but in many cases, it does.

I like talking physics to my colleagues and appending everything with a "G" or "dog"...

I do that as well. I say something to the line of "You must be trippin boy, why is this ni--a (referring to equation) over that ni--a?" LOL Physics has never sounded more exciting.

For great literature on group psychology (ie Sociology) and peer pressure, read Chocolate Wars and the "Crucible".

[Inverse Icarus]

w00p w00p! DIS BE HIP HOP YO. WORD TO YOUR MOTHER, uhh, cracker... cracker? no, that can't be right.

/me looks up "cracker" in his "webstaz hip hop dikshunairy".

oh shizzle, dat be right, yo. dawg. homeslice. errr. word.

[monolith94]

word to your mother is definitely early nineties. not now. not after all that's been done. not with all that we've done

not now

[orange]

Originally posted by Lincoln
I know a lot of "rebels" but most of them are just sheep.

I know a lot of "Christians" but most of them are just sheep

[Zero]

word to your mother is classic. Vanilla Ice was alot cooler than the dinky ice wannabe Eminem!

Ice Ice Baby~

[ThePantaloonDog]

Who honestly really cares?

[Lincoln]

It is one thing to be a sheep and know it. It is quite another to think you are a rebel while actually being led about by your friends. The sheep thing seems to be a part of human nature and I think we are all subject to it to some extent. Even hermits probably read books about other hermits and do what they did.

[monolith94]

that's so horribly cynical lincoln. I hope I never read that again.

That's disgusting

the only thing worse i can think of is the paper-cut on the eye thing I saw in slowwhand's thread.