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Thanx for the TV tip ima try that, I do watch mostly like Sabados Gigante for the ass 'n' titties, so I guess I'll stick around for the news and stuff.
I basically don't denounce my whiteness because my pops always taught me about where he came from, my relatives and ancestors since we got a family history that was recorded. Family on my pops side Came here from Norway in the early 1800s, and I was always fascinated in Viking and Nordic history since the beginning. Contrary to the atmosphere going around, I don't believe that being white is having no culture and history whatsoever, that a black person is "ethnic", a middle eastern person is "ethnic", but white is nothing.
One reason I identify white is that what I see that will happen soon and is already happening is a sort of 'ashamed to be white' atmosphere springing up and around schools, colleges, etc. It's like I said where white people look for any trace of ethnicity and try to latch on to it, like it's their salvation, and if you are full white, you basically feel in order to not be counted off you have to come off like "I'm a bitch, I'm a mark, please Sir can I have another" etc etc to be heard.
You have to make 'white jokes' about yourself and basically if you have an opinion come into a discussion like 'Excuse me, but can I say something here?' I was very into my mex side when I was younger, but I was usually not believed since I looked white and didn't speak spanish etc. But the fucked up shit that made me change my mind a bit was, when this one teacher who didn't like me found out I was Mexican, she all of a sudden started listening to what I had to say, valuing my opinions, etc.
Well, I was never considered Mexican by Latinos, but what I saw was that myself, a very intelligent person, was shunned previously because as a whiteboy I had nothing to contribute. So I could claim Mex, and still not be accepted by Mexicans, but have a voice in the mind of my teachers as a 'bright minority student', or I could claim white and stick by all the full whites or half-breeds like me who for some reason identify white, and deal with being seen as 'just another white boy'.
This experience led me to identify white, since the culture in America right now is very in tune with the art, viewpoint, and contributions of minorities. I felt this was right, also if my views could be seen significant coming from a white person, that would mean that I really had something to say.
The supreme irony of this is that the same situation exists for minorities in less progressive areas. Instead of being dismissed as a white boy, there is dismissal for being black or mexican. I encountered 'white racism' in San Fran, which is a very liberal community. Other places already are or will follow this example.
I'm not sayin 'reverse racism' or whatever is a big problem in our society. Far from it. The pendulum needs to swing back the other way. In order to effectively change the attitudes of people. If the most radical in our society are saying 'Fuck white people', then that will lead to the moderate saying 'Fuck racism'. I am of the opinion that the racism of today will and is giving way to this reverse racism, after which the pendulum will rest and swing neither way, and America will catch up with European attitudes.
I dispute people that tell me white people aren't a race, or that white people have no culture or history. Yes, as a whole white people have wreaked the most havoc on the world compared to every other race pero I don't live in the past. I can find ways to be proud and respectful at the same time, and in my opinion if I did not live in a very liberal environment like SF I would not feel the way I do.
As for as Frisco Code and Bay Slang:
Well for one thing there are no Blood/Crip sets in SF. Niggas out here won't tolerate it. Basically they say they opposed to gang-bangin. That is hypocritical since there is funkin between neighborhood sets and they do sometimes sport their own colors but they still would shut down any C or B sets that would try and come up.
There is XIV and X3 out here but they are in more 'mexican' areas and I think folks out here aren't educated on their war, and they aren't claiming Blood or Crip, so they leave it alone.
People here say blood, nigga like its nathen. That's all around the Bay whether you bang or not. I bet it started in Frisco, though, since traditional gangs/colors dont have implications. What you see more of in SF is some more specific color connotations, for example Lakeview homies wear UNLV gear and red, but UNLV isn't blood or crip.
With 'nigga', it's like this: folks can tell whether you down or not by the way you is, talk, walk, etc. SF, bein very opposed to racism, has a good deal of white/azn/mex homeboys. If niggas see that you ain't comin off disrespectful, that you honestly street folks, a black dude will just be like 'Yea nigga what's hapnin' you know? Homeboys to me is just street folks. I'm not sayin homeless and I'm not sayin them dirty wack ass rockers that put rocks through their nose and shit, I'm talkin ghetto, hip-hop, street folks. That's a homeboy to me.