The make a good point. On the Real World last night, a white girl and a black girl got in an argument. As the argument escalated, the blonde, southern, white girl repeatedly said "Let's not get GHETTO"!! While its really funny tv. As a white person I cringed. I am not into being all politically correct but that was really insulting. Thoughts?
Well I grew up in the rough side of new york as a kid I'm also of ethnic background and watching the real world last night that wasn't her first "ghetto" comment she did it first episode when she met the black guy with dreads(I can't remember his name) she said something like " I can't believe someone so nice and cute can come from the ghetto" I just shook my head like okay but last night when she did it again I wasn't to offended it was kinda funny but then she kept saying it over and over but the icing on the cake is when she she was talking privately to that girl and said " I don't care if you come from the blackest of blackville" something to that nature and I realized she had a little racism in her its still kinda early in the show to really judge her but she is walking a fine line.
ReplyDeleteTo me I agree, you don't use ghetto how she was using it, I think she has some prejudices for sure. Where is she from? People don't really realize it but there is still a lot of prejudice and sterotypes and racial tension in a lot of the deep south.
ReplyDelete^ I agree. Where is she from? I work in downtown Detroit where let's face it...I'm the minority. Does not bother me one bit. I actually love working in the city and where I work. I have a lot of African American friends that I gained from working here. I have them over, I go there, were friends. Now my Grandmother, bless her sole grew up in different times with different values. She will throw out the "N" word like nothin. It bothers me and I have to get after her because of my views but like one of the ladies at work said "Honey I think it bothers you more than it bothers me." She can remove herself from the hatred and kind of laugh about it because she knows what times were like before. My grandfather had fallen and my grandmother had noticed that a meter reader was outside and she asked him to help her get my grandfather. Her exact words to me were "He was the nicest "N" I've ever met" Different words have different meaning behind them to some people. Where I grew up, a small town next to us where we lived was Waterford, that to us was the "ghetto". Now that I'm grown I live in Waterford and it's far from "ghetto"I think people need to stop jumping so quickly to bash people when we should be educating them. If someone says something you don't like or it's not correct, tell them...In a non combative manner.
ReplyDelete'Ghetto' is the new 'N word'! MTV loves showing blatant racism like it's ok...that white girl is trash - pure trash!
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