DEgREES OF WIggA-ISM
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I want to know how someone can talk shit on a white person that accepts the culture of African-American? Some of these white kids were born into that environment. One can't help but chuckle at the sight of a white man wearing a du-rag, but to criticize them because of what kind of person they are? Criticize them because they admire your culture?
I did some thinking and I see 2 "degree's" of what you would call a wigga.
1. Those that are born into that environment. The ones that are born and raised in neighborhood's which are by a high majority populated by African-American's. In this process they learn and develope the traits and styles of those who they live around. This is who and REALLY what they are.
2. Those that grow up in the suburbs, or some neighborhood with a low African-American population, who at some later point in life, develope the traits and styles of the hip-hop culture through special interest. They like who they are and feel comfortable in this state of mind. This "degree" can vary from kids running around in du-rags calling each other nigga, to those who truely understand the lifestyle and culture and choose to live it.
Either way, to knock a person for who they are regardless how "funny" you might think he/she is, only shows your true cowardly colors. For those of you that knock this type of person, you aid the degregation of African-Americans in the United States.
EDJ: This post was not towards you. I saw nothing wrong with the question you asked. This is to give some future comedians who enter this thread something to think about before they go running their mouth.
I did some thinking and I see 2 "degree's" of what you would call a wigga.
1. Those that are born into that environment. The ones that are born and raised in neighborhood's which are by a high majority populated by African-American's. In this process they learn and develope the traits and styles of those who they live around. This is who and REALLY what they are.
2. Those that grow up in the suburbs, or some neighborhood with a low African-American population, who at some later point in life, develope the traits and styles of the hip-hop culture through special interest. They like who they are and feel comfortable in this state of mind. This "degree" can vary from kids running around in du-rags calling each other nigga, to those who truely understand the lifestyle and culture and choose to live it.
Either way, to knock a person for who they are regardless how "funny" you might think he/she is, only shows your true cowardly colors. For those of you that knock this type of person, you aid the degregation of African-Americans in the United States.
EDJ: This post was not towards you. I saw nothing wrong with the question you asked. This is to give some future comedians who enter this thread something to think about before they go running their mouth.
What are the characterizations of a Bonkey/Bracker?
Do they exist?
And by the way, read "Bomb the Suburbs".
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Do they exist?
And by the way, read "Bomb the Suburbs".
Buy it here!
I’ll also like to add that I know some white guys that grew up in the hood with black folks and picked up on the dominant black culture in their neighborhood. It's only natural for that to happen because your environment and the people in it help mold who you are as a person. If you're raised by wolves you'll more than likely emulate a wolf, however you may never become a wolf but your mannerism and attitude maybe of one. These white guys I happen to understand black culture just based on living and growing up around them.
There are some white people that love the hip hop culture (meaning the music, language, the fashion etc.) that probably can’t identify with the struggles of black folks in general or black folks in the hood, but understand what they’re talking about.
Then we have some white folks that love hip hop culture like the person above but do not understand the culture in the entirety. They may love hip hop music but may make racist/ignorant comments about the issues black rappers are talking in their hip hop music. They also may even use the word "nigga" because thats the cool common slang.
So yes I think there are differences in how some folks see black culture.
There are some white people that love the hip hop culture (meaning the music, language, the fashion etc.) that probably can’t identify with the struggles of black folks in general or black folks in the hood, but understand what they’re talking about.
Then we have some white folks that love hip hop culture like the person above but do not understand the culture in the entirety. They may love hip hop music but may make racist/ignorant comments about the issues black rappers are talking in their hip hop music. They also may even use the word "nigga" because thats the cool common slang.
So yes I think there are differences in how some folks see black culture.
I've been called a wannabe and a wigger before. (I'm 1/2 white and 1/2 middle eastern). I'm on the radio and I speak with a certain slang, such that people think I must be black just because I say "the club was off the hook last night". It just so happens that for years, the majority of my friends have been black. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. I like rap music, but I also listen to other types of music as well. I will never experience what it is to be black, but I have educated myself thru books, observation, and conversations with people which I feel have given me a good idea of what it must be like day to day. I've been in parties of black folks at dinner and I just blended in and got treated half-assed like the rest of my folks. I've been pulled over numerous times because of the black faces in my car. I've been followed in stores because of my "negro" friends. It's not a mythical thing this racial divide...it still very much exists....thank god I had the balls to cross it and learn some shit instead of being ignoramous like 1/2 the confused white kids on this board.
"I know some white guys that grew up in the hood with black folks and picked up on the dominant black culture in their neighborhood." ..... me too. When i tink wigga, its usually people who take it over the edge with apearance and slang they pick up off t.v. Like they think thats how you are supposed to act.
Aight. . .
I'm white but I ain't no muthaphukin wigga. . .
I think that word is a derogatory word that describe's someone who is influenced by rap and what he or she see's it to be. Not really understanding what is behind rap and the whole lifestyle and mindset it represents. They try to imitate it because they think it's cool and need something to belong to but in the process they just end up moking it.
But me. I wasn't influenced by rap. I'm not easily influenced. I related to it. Not because it's a pre donimat blak or urban music but because it was real. Wasn't sugar coated it was just sayin hey muthaphuka this is how shit is and put it out there. And if you don't like how it is then fuk you and how you livin.
What's a trip to me is that it seem's like there's more white folks trippin off a "wigga's" like they betrayed white people n shit. Gettin all hurt over that. Me I don't care enough to even notice em. I don't like simp's of any race. White,Blak,Mexican etc. . .If you real you real and real people of any race will reconize that. They might test you first to see how real you are but that just comes with the territory. and i'm not talk about bein "real" as in gangsta or hard i'm sayin real as in just bein yourself. . .
I'm white but I ain't no muthaphukin wigga. . .
I think that word is a derogatory word that describe's someone who is influenced by rap and what he or she see's it to be. Not really understanding what is behind rap and the whole lifestyle and mindset it represents. They try to imitate it because they think it's cool and need something to belong to but in the process they just end up moking it.
But me. I wasn't influenced by rap. I'm not easily influenced. I related to it. Not because it's a pre donimat blak or urban music but because it was real. Wasn't sugar coated it was just sayin hey muthaphuka this is how shit is and put it out there. And if you don't like how it is then fuk you and how you livin.
What's a trip to me is that it seem's like there's more white folks trippin off a "wigga's" like they betrayed white people n shit. Gettin all hurt over that. Me I don't care enough to even notice em. I don't like simp's of any race. White,Blak,Mexican etc. . .If you real you real and real people of any race will reconize that. They might test you first to see how real you are but that just comes with the territory. and i'm not talk about bein "real" as in gangsta or hard i'm sayin real as in just bein yourself. . .
for the suburban ass white folks who listen to rap music and watch menace 2 soceity and think its cool so they go around dressing acting talking like it...thats being a wigger...those motherfuckers i despise because their the epitome of a wannabe.
a little more different if youre born into it...say youre born in the middle of a black hood and you hang with all blacks...i think then it kind of is embedded in you, still it might be kind of akward but more understandable...i still think the N word shouldnt come out of anybody unless theyre black...even if they were born in the hood.
a little more different if youre born into it...say youre born in the middle of a black hood and you hang with all blacks...i think then it kind of is embedded in you, still it might be kind of akward but more understandable...i still think the N word shouldnt come out of anybody unless theyre black...even if they were born in the hood.
lol
i was raised in the "ghetto", i listen to rap music and wear southpole clothes. i have a mix of friends, white, black, asian, native. i dont use that much slang but i dont speak proper "whiteguy" lol. i only use the word nigga when im drunk and yellin on the phone as some ppl may get offended and i dont need to use that word. i never wear du rags but dont see whats wrong with white ppl wearin em, most black ppl wear them for style, not for their hair.
to some im a wigger, to others im not.
i was raised in the "ghetto", i listen to rap music and wear southpole clothes. i have a mix of friends, white, black, asian, native. i dont use that much slang but i dont speak proper "whiteguy" lol. i only use the word nigga when im drunk and yellin on the phone as some ppl may get offended and i dont need to use that word. i never wear du rags but dont see whats wrong with white ppl wearin em, most black ppl wear them for style, not for their hair.
to some im a wigger, to others im not.