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[coripixie]

dear people who looooove saying everything is ghetto,
those bitches are so ghetto.
i hate the ghetto.
i hate ghetto people.
you look ghetto.
yo, yo, i am ghetto.
those clothes are wicked ghetto.
ew, you are wicked ghetto!
that's not sick, it's ghetto!

i am talking to you.

ghetto: the new n-wordi think about this a lot in boston. people say things

Comments

[justin_fox]

A fucking men.
You've got to tell me how this conference goes.

In the meantime I've got to talk to you about stuff, catch me online.

[lucraya]

Indeed, if ten people heard someone refer to someone else as “ghetto ass,” at least nine out of ten would assume the person referred to was black, unless otherwise specified.

it's crazy that i hear this kind of thing all the time, (or rather did, as the "blackest" any of my white folk here get is sprinkling the occasional "word" into their conversations) and never actually thought about the full connotation. it's like when fashion magazine ads get analyzed to show the "hidden" misogyny your mind never registered, then suddenly it's like "DAMN! that's so fucking sexist!" etc, despite (perhaps due to) how common it is and how unintrusive it once was.

[lucraya]

oh, and you're using the old woman icon again! i remember that layout. it was WHITE and full of squares.

[coripixie]

those were the days. ah, simple lj-coding.

[bibliotech]

Whenever anyone around here says "ghetto", they're always referring to black people. Ghetto isn't supposed to mean "triflin'-ass negro", but that's what it's turned into.

[coripixie]

exactly. it's a way to seperate "good" black people from the "bad" ones. you get to easy your mind by saying, 'oh, i'm not talking about black people, i'm just talking about ghetto people! they have such bad manners.'