Ghetto Girls
Hey Sorors and SF's-
I had to vent on this one- I HATE< HATE, HATE that son by Lil Bow Wow "Ghetto Girls." Besides the fact sometimes I think these little girls are totally out of control, I know the parents who encourage the out of control behavior and actually encourage their daughters to try and "get with" him with dollar signs in their eyes are straight off the meter. (And yes, I have seen it done) But now he is telling them the type of ghetto girl that he likes. And we all know they will all try to be that kind of girl who "talks more slang than he does" who "likes hot boys and runs with the best of them” And we all know if he said he liked fuchsia hair they would be begging for fuchsia hair. I think the images and messages we allow our children to be bombarded with are horrific. Lil Bow Wow is a mess to me. What type of image is he growing up with about women and girls? I pray his mother is actively trying to combat that or I fear women will always be nothing but screaming groupie chicks to him. Lil Kim is not a role model for anyone and certainly not someone under 18. (Who need not be listening to a single word that comes out of her mouth before then) Same goes for Foxy Brown and Trina in my opinion.
I am so tired of seeing my little sisters running around emulating video hoes, believing the only way to get a boy to be interested in them is through sex and their own self oversexualization. I am tired of clothes manufacturers who now make girls clothes nothing more than a smaller version of my CLUB clothes. I am tired of the parents who keep their nine-year-olds decked out in tube tops and acrylic finger and toe nails, getting their eyebrows waxed along side me. I am tired of the eight-year-olds that aspire to be teenaged moms. I am tired of the four generation families rolling around my city more concerned with section 8 than the future (meaning great grandma is 45, grandma is 30, mom is 15 and the baby is 1) I am tired of people believing that being poor ahs to mean being ignorant, buying into the negative stereotypes and perpetuating the worse of all the things we have to offer. Some days I wonder if we will ever help all our brothers and sisters see their own potential and to see out side of the box. Just because you live in the ghetto does not mean you have to be "ghetto". And I worry about the future of the generations coming behind me more than you could ever know.
Whew! Off my soapbox. What do you think? Is the song really okay and I am just over reacting? Maybe it is just me...or maybe it's not.
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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.
Baltimore Metropolitan Alumnae Chapter
#3 of ER 30
Spring 1999
"No finer girls will you ever see, and I'm so glad I pledged- for what?
For DST!"
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