School Daze question.

[shinerbock]

Regardless of how yall feel about bows, he may have something. Suburban white kids are all over popular black culture, and I'm not sure thats a good thign

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

Suburban white kids are all over popular black culture

Which is not necessarily the same thing as saying someone is "speaking and dressing like black people." The stereotype of what "black is" existed long before there was cable television.

So if bows simply meant to say that misguided whites (and blacks) are emulating stereotypical media images of what "black is" then that's what bows should've said. I don't know if that's what his/her MTV and BET post was trying to address because he/she was too busy dancing around my question.

[shinerbock]

But that urban dress/action is "popular" black culture. I mean, we obviously realize all black people don't act/dress that way, but it is not just the media who portrays it that way. The black community supports and puts that image out as well. I imagine he referenced MTV and BET because those things influence young people, and the channels have taken on that urban style which kids emulate.

[bows&toes]

Maybe pictures will explain it better:

WHITE-PEOPLE DRESSING/ACTING "BLACK"








WHITE GUYS BEING WHITE

[shinerbock]

hahaha, I don't think theres ever been a person I've wanted to hit as much as that kid in the third picture.

[f8nacn]

Originally Posted by bows&toes

Maybe pictures will explain it better:

WHITE-PEOPLE DRESSING/ACTING "BLACK"








WHITE GUYS BEING WHITE

so are you saying that Black males don't wear polo shirts and khaki's without the preconceived notion that they are trying to be white? or something other than black! The pictures do not indicate the majority of either the black and/or white race.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

I mean, we obviously realize all black people don't act/dress that way

This obvious point is the only good thing that will come out of this dialogue.

[shinerbock]

Regardless, it is quite common for them to act and dress that way, especially in the south.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

Regardless, it is quite common for them to act and dress that way, especially in the south.

Who is "them?"

[shinerbock]

Hasnt the subject been black people? Thus, "them" meaning black people.
Them-
Pronunciation: ([th])&m, '[th]em, after p, b, v, f, also &m
Function: pronoun
objective case of THEY