Ghetto Pass
 

From my understanding, a ghetto pass is privallge given to white people from Blacks to act as we act. I hav a problem with that because why would we want someone to immitate the ignorance we perpetuate. We need to change ourselves, but we give whites permission to say nigga and do things like that, even though no matter how much they try to immitate us, they will never fully understand our struggle.Then I have a problem with people equating being ghetto as embracing your blackness. Being ghetto is setling for less, and saying you deserve what you have. I believe that the ghetto is a beautiful thing but the going out of the way to act ghetto is being ignorant. I got more to say once the responses start coming in so keep the responses coming and tell me what yall think...

aight, well...
i'm black, an i used to live in sacramento cali, i guess i've lived in a ''ghetto'' an i was grew up to always believe less fortunate black communitys should not be glorified.......
i agree....
its a beautiful thing, if anybody has never been to a ghetto, you'll understand its more than just a poor area, people respect everybody down there, its a way of life, its completly diffrent from any other communities in the whole world....its like you treat everybody who lives on ya block as family, hence the reazon ''outsiders'' aint always been welcomed, thats the reazon the ''ghetto pass'' stands today....
but in my opinnon they should not have them, this may sound wrong, but even tho it is a lessfortunate area, they have worked for what they have, an black folk will be the only people to ever know what that feels like, the white people will just be comin thru into ghettos actin all urban n black, an if anybody in the ghetto has any sense at all...they should be offended by that...

i dont think its right to black people.. me bieng a white person completely influenced by hip hop culture by dressing and acting a certain way.. myself bieng told i am not black therefore i cant act this way i think this is disrespectful to black people bieng set in a certain group of people

naw, naw, ya see...
i dont mind be labelled a certain way cause of my skin color, as i'm sure you dont cause your white...
but............................
it is disrespectful when other races try an immitate our way of life...
for a example...
would a whiteboy try an act an asian? or mexican act european? it just aint right, if ya wanna be influenced then that is all good, that proves the muzik gets a message across, but thats what it is, a message, not a right for white folk to hear things in songs an automatically assume they know what we go thru..

i dont assume what you go through cuz white people also go through struggles of living in run down shacks ... ya'll got projects we got trailer parks white people can come off just as everyone else and i dont think its a race that white people are imitating because you dont see me rock sequins and ruffled shirts imitating prince or coppin a pleated suit imitating jesse jackson both big names in african culture but you might see me with a throwback jersey on or a cap tilted to the side because i'm influenced by a rapper also a black person you may here me talk slang but i dont see why i'm suddenly acting black if i do so...

...because we originated it, its like you wouldnt see a black man talk n act like a ''hick'' cause he wants to be from a trailer park, so why do white kids act ghetto?

i'm not even trynna say you act black or its wrong for you to do slang throwbacks n all, but what i'm sayin is white folk in general hear stuff in songs or see movies n think the ghetto is all cool n stuff...........
i dunno, this is just an endless topic if ya ask me lol..

so your saying...

acting black is just fine
acting ghetto is whole nother story..

just wondering how you feel but is there a diffrence and define acting ghetto cuz from i came from acting ghetto to me is living ghetto carrying foodstamps and stead of cash walking home or what you call a home with a card board box full of canned goods cuz your moms to drugged up to get her own welfare food not gettting presents for christmas but getting a starter jacket that you rock till it looks like a t. shirt thats my aspect of ghetto and i dont wanna go back to that

for me all i really did was grow up to my surrounding,
if i grew up in the 'burbs then id be prep
(sike)
but i grew up in the ghetto so no one stopped me from acting this way

hmm..peeps should just act naturally...no matter how tht be....i know areas....not jus black areas..white areas aswell..and mixed ares...tht are labeled as bad areas....ruff folks n stuff......were evryone respect each other.....dont mean they actin black...........i talk how i talk....im white...but i dont put an accent on.....i dress the way i think looks good....wether it be baggy trousers and t-shirts or not...i walk how i walk.....i dont make effort to do these differently......white people live in tough areas too.......its just tht those people arent influenced by hip-hop..therfore dont say ghetto n stuff like tht......but they still have it hard....i hate when black people say...oh..we from the hood..its hard..white people dont know wot its like.....thts bullshit.......like i say....areas near me are ruff...my areas ruff.....drug dealin..robberies...no jobs.......and its a mixture of blacks and whites..more whites.....so has nothin to do with colour at all......so white peeps do know wot its like......dont say they dont.......and u cannot act black...no one can......there are black doctors..and black lawyers...so if someone tells me im actin black...does tht mean im actin like a doctor.......NO.....im been myself.....and im actin by what ive been influenced by.....Hip-Hop.....so u cannot act black.........but u can act hood...or act ghetto....but u cannot act black........

saraan.....
this thread is all about white folk comin into the ghetto with a ghetto pass....
thats the reazon i'm sayin ''actin ghetto'' what are you gettin all worked up about?
act black, act ghetto, whatever, i worded it wrong...........
but your goin away from the topic of the thread just to prove a point..

hows he gona say he gona close a thread bout a serious discussion....how bout ya go clean the rest of the forum out.....werd

no i'm not getting worked up actually i agree with you 100% someone come from the burbs to act ghetto is absoloutly ridiculous because there oblivious to what its really like...

it's about more than dressing a certain way.

thats not ghetto, thats impoverished. I feel u though... But the whole thing about the appreciation for the ghetto is doing the best you can with what u have.

well how do u act. And even if u did grow up in the ghetto, there are still many doors that will be opened to u because of your race and closed to us because of ours. But I dont fault u for that, and I'm not angry because of that. it is what it is.

Ok I feel like everyone is getting off topic. I was talking about ghetto passes and how black people hand them out to their favorite white people to start a discussion on how it's detremental and perpetuates a cycle of stereotypes among other problems as well. I believe there is no such thing as acting black , but I ALSO believe that there is a such thing as trying to immitate what you dont understand or have a full appreciation for, which can be offensive to those who know the struggle personally. The whole point is we need to stop labeling things. Period. If who you are is influenced by hip-hop thats cool, just so long as you are being a true individual because hip-hop is primarily abouot being an individual and standing out...

Why do u deem my thread pointless? All this other bullshit, and you wanna close mine down even though it's gettin response? WTF kind of shit is that? U must be either white or an uncle tom, cause it's alot more ignorant shit on here than this, but because u scared that it might cause a fuckin uprising or make people feel uncomfortable because the shit is real u wanna cut it off. DO what u gotta do...

i think this is gay white people dont struggle?that sounds dumb i was poor as fuck most of my life no coat in the winter i been stabbed shot at went hungry did 6 years in prison cuz my 'BLACK' co-d snitched on me and im white!!you sound ignorant for saying white people can never understand struggle i used to get jumped for being white when i was little how i aint struggle?my moms sold the food for crack money when welfare brought it !!i love the hood too but like Pac said 'the hood is all good for nobody' and thats the truth fuck a pass i got a big ass gun thats my pass in any hood :gfy:

That is weeerd.

The most intelligent shit you ever said.

Selah David, people like you are the real racists, only thinking that racism is one way, and that all whites live rich, it isnt just black people that are poor.

That was a pretty ignorant statement.

This is fucken stupid.
Let people act however the fuck they want. Im white bro, I dont act black at all. I got my own culture and my own way of acting. Shit, I wouldnt want to act black.

Everyone got their own struggles. Its true that black people have different types of ghettos, you learned to live differently because your cultures alter ego was formed during slavery, you learnt to stick together and have love for your people. White people in america got the other side of the deal, a lot of them were the rich ones who lives a much easier life. Thing is, nowadays, everyone is equal, there are black people in the struggle and theres white people in the struggle. Dont try and act like your the ones that everyone should want to be like. Because thing is, we all got a diff style and theres a lot of people from either side that are fags.

And instead of beefing with each other because were different, we should be trynna get along with differences. ....

And thats word kids.

Would every1 please stay on muthafuckin topic! I never said that white people could'nt understand struggle. I said that they could not fully comprehend ours (blacks). If u grew up in the "hood" fine! But the fact is, there are still more doors open to you, and society is more forgiving to you because of your ethnic background. If you decide not to take advantage of tha, then that makes you ignorant. This post is not about loving the hood. It's about why do we "blacks" think that it's right to give out "GHETTO PASSES". Meanig, why do we feel it's ok to say "you a cool ass white boy, so I'm gone let you say nigga" or why do we feel that just because they hang in the "hood" they can speak on our struggle. Why are we selling our culture and our way of living, and then claim to feel disrespected when a white person feels they have the right to do and say certain things that would be offensive to us otherwise. This is about black people respecting ourselves and not about having a hate parade for the whites who want to immitate us because we give them permission

Think about where your posting this.

A Rap board.

What colout are the major majority of rappers, dont ttalk about black people not getting oppurtunity's here, cos if anything, white people are discriminated in this game

It aint anything about rap what this guys talkin bout.

Hes talking about a stupid concept that shouldnt exist.

I know, I wasnt really talkin about Rap if you read it.

no we dont imatate blacks we do hip hop hip hop is not black music it is a way of life not a color we follow that way of life and i have no doors open to me unless i be somebody im not and i cant do that ill always be hood thats where im from so no bullshit and blacks have to be hired!!whites dont stupid so blacks now have a upperhand on whites.i say nigga cuz i can you know why?cuz i got a big ass gun and my homies got big ass guns and the bullets all leave big ass holes so take that bobby seal bullshit outta here i dont need a pass and i say what i want cuz im built like that its part of hip hop and i am hip hop you dont like it then fuck you :gfy:

ATTENTION WHITE PEOPLE...THIS POST IS NOT ABOUT YOU. I KNOW MOST THINGS USUALLY ARE ABOUT YOU AND THATS WHY YOU THINK THIS IS, BUT IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU. This post was addressing black people disrespecting themselves by giving white people permission to disrespect them. YOU ARE NOT THE PROBLEM. We are the problem. Empire why are you hood? What the fuck is hood. Why do you think that it's cool to be hood if it's holding you back. I would ask the same question of black people. AND THAT IS SOME IGNROANT ASS SHIT. RACIST ASS SHIT FOR YOU TO SAY THAT YOU CAN SAY NIGGA CAUSE YOU AND YO HOMIES GOT BIG ASS GUNS. DONT NOBODY GIVE A FUCK. CAUSE U AING GONE BUST EM, AND EVEN IF YOU DO U NOT GONE BUST EM AT ME. ONCE AGAIN IF YOU GREW UP N THE HOOD I DONT CARE BUT U STIL HAVE TO RESPECT WHERE IM COMING FROM AND NOT GET INDIGNANT BECAUSE WHAT IM SAYING ISNT CATERING TO YOUR MUTHAFUCKIN EGO...

Aite read this...

As a young nigga i grew up in a detroit ghetto, and i really hate all this shit rappers talkin bout now...

Look at 50 and Luda, Trick Daddy and Lil Flip.. all these niggas promotin violence against young niggas, and brag and boast about bein ghetto and bein thugs...

I had 2 of my brothers killed, 1 shot 7 times by a gang outside a laundromat.. the other got beat unconscous and then shot twice... I know what ghetto life is like, and i think its horrible how young niggas kill each other everyday, whether it's by earnin respect, bein part of gang.. or sometimes over little shit like a nickle bag of coke...

And we got 50 sayin that this shit is good, and he makin millions off it and even further promotin niggas to kill each other... for us blacks to turn things around 1 of the first things we need to do is stop killin each other.. it just makes us look bad when everyday on the news theres a story about some black kids who shot each other up

And all this "ghetto pass" shit is bullshit, because now people mock the ghetto and think its some kind of glorious thing, but in honesty its like hell... trash and garbage all over the streets, houses fallin apart, kids with no shoes and no good place to live, crack addicts walkin the streets that at any moment could have a fiene and want to kill someone..

It really aint that great a place

Your an idiot seriously.

Stop trying to racially divide people, do you actually want to continue racism?? cos if you continue to attmpt to seperate black people like this, thats whats going to happen.

What is wrong with bieng equal??

Answer my question. Since you have disregarded my last posts

ohh ill bust them and bust them at you bitch yous a nobody who the fuck is you a lame bitch crying all the time :nono: straight pussy i been arrested for shooting dudes you just a lame bitch go read a malcom x book noone wants to hear that shit :gfy:

^^^^ Hah, prolly some white ass muhafuckin suburban little bitch..

First off, if u got arrested for shootin someone ya ass would be in jail and not behind a computer screen

there is nothing wrong with equality. I dont have a problem with equality. But my problem is white people (proven on this thread alone) aren't concerned with equality until they feel like they are being attacked. I dont see anything about equalty from out of a white persons mouth until black people start talking about something sensitive to their egos and the demoralization of their culture. My whole thing is, nobody is paying attention to the real question. White people keep getting on the defensive, and black people aren't responding so the whole point of this post is really being missed. The whole concept is to stop the trend of ignorance...

its empire^^with his many aliases, who cares? but selah gurl, this is a touchy subject as is....1

that is not proven on this thread alone, you raised the subject.

Do you even realise that you are bieng the racist here??

all black people talk like hicks...thats where the black accent came from...because early blacks learned to speak english from the whites on the plantation who were huge hicks...and the accent just never rubbed off...dont believe me? go to somewhere thats isolated like somewhere in backwoods nc or sc and listen to the white people talk...theyll call you cuzzin and say they are "fin" to do something...makes you think...

i koed you bitch and i been in jail fag suck a dick homo :gfy:

being black dont make u ghetto
cuz theres alotta races in the ghetto besides black people
there is no "ghetto pass"
and being ghetto is not something to be proud of...its motivation to succeed

selah your wack maybe thats why your 0-1 :nono:

^^^ damn son this all a game to you... we talkin somethin serious and you all "well you 0-1 so you wack" talkin bout how you ko'd me... everyone i know who seen our battle said i won, but you blacklisted like half the site so dont gimme that "i koe'd you" bullshit... get a life outside ya computer screen doughboy