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Burning_Inside
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I think we all know this and get the point, but why do even young black people from ritzy upper class neighborhoods feel that they have to talk like that also? I can see if that's the way they talk from where you grow up and live, fine. But it HAS become a way for almost all American blacks (and whites and whatever other color too now that does not even come from a ghetto) to distinguish themselves, it's like the "secret club language" or something.
So yeah, most blacks ARE trying to distinguish themselves by talking like that, they're distinguishing themselves as "ghetto". That's the way they talk in the ghetto, black and white and red and whatever color that lives there nowadays, but definately it was started by blacks. What do white kids coming from a rich neighborhood talk that way for, to distinguish themselves as...? What exactly? Why try and force yourself to talk in a slang and an accent from where you're not even from, and make yourself look like a goof in the process?
Bottom line is that the whole rap/ghetto/hip hop scene is what the media is pushing as hip and cool and whatever these days. Young people buy into it, older people who don't as easily, if at all, let the media brainwash them into certain things, like myself, just find it highly annoying and ridiculous already. That's all.
