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Originally posted by ilovemyglo
I wonder- when Eminem was growing up, was he emulating black people? Being himself? Or was Eminem, indeed- GHETTO FABULOUS?
Questions that no one has the answer to...
And actually I think that the Jewish population on this board should be more upset about this than the african american population.... seeing as how the ghettos are what they were put in before being herded to concentration camps in Nazi Germany- I don't think they put any blacks in there (unless they were Jewish, of course). Ghetto was never a term used for just the african american community... but it was for Jews.
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Okay, I was posting before I read this, so let me respond. I don't profess to be an Eminem scholar, but if he did in fact grow up in the ghetto, than at least he has a point of reference. Again, it isn't about a fashion statement or the way you talk, it's about class.
Your second point is ludicrous. Jews don't have a coin on the term. In this country, a ghetto is an area of economic depression, which just so happens to be unproportionately represented by minorities. It is a fact that when people use the word ghetto today, they are not referring to Nazi-Germany.