Black People:  Do you get mad when you see white suburban kids acting urban or hip hop(ish)?
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Take it from a "black girl who grew up suburban," that it goes both ways.  I was always teased by black kids for 'acting white'.  There is no real way to answer this question, other than, be who you are.  Not how the media says you should be because the white-owned media has only taken the most marketable aspects of black culture in its eyes and put it up for sale.  As long as you're not experiencing "buyer's remorse," you go, boy...
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The thing is that black people started the hip hop/urban culture you are talking about, so that's why people say they act black.  The term I hear a lot is "wigger", that term has been around for years and years.  I know it sounds offensive to some, I am just stating the term and I don't mean anything derogatory by it.
75028
firstly, not all black people alienate those who "act white". There are just some people who believe that there is a certain way to act and when they think that ur not acting like how they think u should act, u will be ridiculed. our society likes to label and categorize people, and we tend to just follow right along, and I think that its time that we develop our own opinions and stop allowing society to tell us how to define others and ourselves.
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Hey I don't know why everyone's getting their knickers in a knot! I totally agree, kids like that do seem middle class. I suppose it's cos there's a kind of intellectual side to this kind of look too, you know poetry, looking for a deeper meaning in lyrics, they've got nothing else to worry about so they can reflect on the meaning of life, or death, politics, etc. \n\nAnd yes this is a question about stereotypes, about people with a certain style. Nobody gets upset when you say 'hippy' or 'punk' do they? Why's everyone being so defensive? Are they all middle class with long hair or what?
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I agree with you, and what never fails to amaze me is the number of young white middle class males who buy their stuff, and copy their idol's image. white  'gangsta wannabe's' are amusing additions to the street scene as long as you don't step on them.
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I agree with your concept, however I hope because of the various barriers different races are breaking this will end. I really hate people saying I act white because I don't listen to rap music.
513479
well their is really nothing wrong with it unless your racist but its mostly because your children are growing up around rap music but it could be just the way they want to be.
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Talk to a group of teens, pre-teens, and younger.\nDo you not notice that their language is almost as smutty as rap songs?
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We (black people) keep ourselves down. The stories I could tell you. Everyone wants to blame the white man, but what happens when the white man isn't around? \nNO white person is telling these kids not to go to school. I know a girl whose mother let her skip the entire school year. I know kids that are proud to be 18 years old and in the 9th grade. A lot of black kids I know hate school and you can't tell them anything.\nI know black that hate me because I went to college and their child didn't. I've lost jobs because of that and left one because of it. We won't hold each other accountable for our actions. Blaming the white man is easy.\nI refuse to blame the white man for something in my community. I've seen too many people try to help blacks and give up because it fell on deaf ears.
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Yes. I have experienced that racism in my own neighborhood. I am called Cracker,whittie. Ect. so Yes,I do agree.
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im not racist either - im white with 2 kids and their dad is black but i dont like white people music. and i love black men! so im sure there are black people that dont like rap music. but how come blacks have a black history month, the negro college fund, and black entertainment tv (bet) the white people dont have a white history month, a whity college fund, and no white entertainment tv. hmmm
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my husband is black and im white and we have 2 kids....very loving family. weve been married for 3yrs almost 4 and havee not yet ran into a problem. we get loooks if were in a town thats not used to seeing it but when they see how loving we are towards one another they look away or smile. i make it known. i dont think its as bad as what it was when whites and blacks werent "supposed" to mix. i feel so what who cares its your life and if you love him, forget everyone else.
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same as young white youth\n  are you a racist
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I don't like rap or hip hop, but I don't go around ragging on it and saying how much I hate it like some people on this site do.  It's the same thing with a lot of emo bands, I personally don't like that kind of music at all, but I don't think it's right to go and bash on people who do.  It's completely demeaning to the artists who have worked hard to make the music and albums and to the people who listen to and enjoy the music.  \n\nI personally don't like rap because I find that I have nothing in common with any of the lyrics, I don't really like the loud bass, and I can't appreciate the beats.  I also don't like hip hop because I don't "connect" with those lyrics, and I don't much like singing.  My favorite genre of music is punk, which is loud and fast and has pretty much nothing in common with rap/hip hop.  It's just a difference is styles and preference of music, I guess...\n\nI also don't really have a set stereotype of people who listen to that type of music.  So many people like rap and hip hop that it is hard to generalize.  The only thing that I have noticed is that people who listen to rap are much more inclined to blast it from their stereos while they are driving down the street or in traffic next to the other cars.  It can get pretty annoying, especially if you don't like the music.  But that's pretty much all that I've noticed...
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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.
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Yup, they surely are mastah, but not as quickly as you.\n\nWhich "black people" are you looking at?  The constant parade of crackheads, welfare, ghetto, perpetually incarated streoptypical black person as portrayed by our great media or are you looking at the fastest growing middle class in Americanada?\n\nAre you looking at Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, and Barak Obama?\n\nAs far as the so called "N" word is concerned, black people can call each other whatever they want in whatever manner they want just as other people and cultures refer to each other using outwardly negative terms but between friends is understood as something else.  \n\nDon't get me wrong, a black person using the "N" word for the same reason and effect as anyone else is just as wrong.  The difference is in who can use a term such as the "N" word in a neutral or positive way.  If you happen to be white, and your name happens to Eminem, and your close friends happen to be Dr Dre, 50 cents, and the rest of the "posse" then you can do it because the understanding exists that the intent is not to wound.  And it's all about the intent.\n\nNow if you happen to be just an acquaintance or it's a first time intro, then I would not suggest greeting a black person with, "what's up my n*gga?" you might get in a bit of trouble.\n\nNow judging from the conversations I have had with my friends, some white people are not mad about black people using the "N" word, they are mad that they cannot liberally use it.  They cannot parse that the word could be anything but a derogatory slur...or maybe they can and feel that they can wiled the power of the word judiciously.  \n\nI still say what I have always said, I invite any person who is not black to use the word at their discretion when speaking to black people.  As you're walking down the street, feel free to say, "hello N*gger, nice day isn't it?"
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idk about ur first question but i dont think white people ar trying to be like u i think if we started acting the way u guys do then u wood be following us and u cant sya ur better then us thats just wrong im not saying were better