Why do suburban white kids dress like gangstas?
350313
Why does ANYBODY dress like that?!! I hope this fad passes soon!!
210708
Hey...what's up with that stuff anyway? If everyone stops snitchin' the punks and gangs will rule the land. No way am I giving them an inch in MY community. If someone has a problem with me tellin' it like it is, that's just TOUGH! Get over it! Maybe if the ones being snitched on would get real jobs and real lives, they wouldn't always have to look over their shoulders and threatening people who want to live a good life, free of crime. I know what it's like to be looking over my shoulder...I lived on the south side of Chicago...during the late 60's. No way am I EVER gonna live like that again. Any punks causing a problem are gonna get snitched on, especially if they're in my line of sight. You can take those shirts and use them as wipe rags. Instead of fear, you need to start spreading something positive. It's a much better way of life. <*)))><
1177295
I think that it has to do a lot with wanting to be liked and respected. Gangstas are in style now so people will try to be gangstas, but some try to be emo, or punk or whatever they think they will be accepted as.
534999
because they are greasy crackheaded jiggaboos
419815
But you have to admit....white people are cool...\n\nWhite people are cool because:\n\n1. They live in nice neighborhoods.\n2. If white people are your neighbors...your property \n   increases in value.\n3. The best schools are located near the white people.\n4. White people always cut their grass.\n5. White people always have money to go to the mall with.\n6. White people always have the coolest toys.\n7. White people usually smell good.\n8. White people love asians....especially females.\n9. White boys are the "original" gangstas.\n10. Lies and Money are the White Man's God!\n\nPeace
382112
Its just their style. Just like rappers wear their baggy pants and big gold necklaces. Its just what they like. Its what they like, nothing more nothing less. Fashion
282884
My kids high school had a huge discussion on this.\n1. we don't have gang problems\n2.we arent a parochial school.\n3. they aren't 5 yrs. old. As long as they are following the dress code, they should be able to express their style. \nAll too soon they hit the corporate world of suits and dresses. Let them be kids. We voted it OUT.
428647
First of all clothing designers need to stop making our daughters look like little hoochie mommas. I have to buy things larger then they need just to maintain modesty. There are so many perverts designing clothes! Then sickos looking at our 12 yr olds with lust in their eyes. Second they need to stop making violent games and airing violent shows. THese things I truly believe make kids violent. Which then they grow up to be violent adults...The list can go on
4441
Gang life gets a lot of 'coverage' in movies, music, etc., people who havent live that life hear about it a little and then think they know it all.  \n\nThats why you see phoney ass kids (typically white) who come from good neighborhoods claiming to be from this gang or the other, wearing colors, and kicking their s hi t to  the side, and thats why they end up getting killed.  hope that helps.
73529
I agree with Whiz and Kd.  I am a teacher and I'm constantly telling the boys to pull up their pants.  I have plastic ties that I put on their pants to hold them up if I have to ask them more than once.  It's a disgusting look and it makes them walk like a duck.\n\nIf they knew where it really originated from maybe some of them wouldn't wear their pants like that.  It comes from men in prison.  If their pants were worn that way it meant they were "the girls" if you know what I mean.
938515
For the same reason fat, ugly boys wear tight jeans. It would be a better world if noone would critizise the other.
1076742
because white is cool. yup in my white tee.
7192
Probably because their parents treated them like a "unit" growing up.  I have twins and I get sooo many matching outfits.  The funny thing is that I've never dressed them identical a day of their 8-month-old lives, but I think people just get a kick out of seeing two little people dressed alike.  \n\nWhat's worse is when the mom has a matching outfit with the kids.  Oh boy...
569225
we have a lot of men here in Holland trying to act all gangsta like. (whatever the term is) I'm used to seeing European men dressed clean cut and neat.  And here we have men dressing in baggie clothes with bandannas on their heads. sigh.\nAnd furry boots.  Why? I haven't a clue.  But women are wearing boots covered in fur.  Some even have a furry ball dangling on the side.  i personally think they are hidious but that seems to be the fashion.
429500
they're shoes for punk kids. punk is in nowadays... so naturally more people are buying them
1068988
Because some afercan americans see it  as you grew up preppy adn you dont know what it is like to live in "the hood"  So they treat you diffrently for some reason they dont belive that white people go through the same thing tehy do which isnt true.  Everybody no matter what color goes through rough times and bad things.  You concidered white cause of where you grew up adn probley whom you hung out with. Its your posture the way you speak and dress and how you go about your day.
633894
Pretend this passage is part of a story you're reading. Read this passage, then I've got a question for you to answer.\n\n     It was a hot, sunny afternoon in the inner city. The three bald youths, wearing T-shirts and baggy pants, walked down the cracked sidewalk, their bling dangling around their shoulders. One carried a boombox playing Snoop Dogg loudly. One wore a baseball cap, its bill turned to the side. Another wore sunglasses.\n\n     All right. Now my question is: What ethnicity were these three youths? Answer, then continue reading.\n\n     My point is that you very probably thought of these youths as African-American, even though the description of them never actually said so. Why can't they be whites, or Latino? You see, stereotyping is programmed into our behavior patterns, it's hardwired into our thought processes. It's part of what makes us human. It's a survivial mechanism--we tend to organize others into groups that we want to try to stay away from, and groups that we want to try to join, because these groups could either harm us or hurt us. Such concerns are beyond "good" and "bad", it's just the way we are.