You are where you live. A blog I thought Id share...

[Rukas]

Click here.

 

[Ghetto_Ghost]

what are you tryin to say?

 

[PuffnScruff]

hmmm ghost brings up and interesting question.

 

[Rukas]

Im not trying to say anything, I said what I wanted to say in the blog.

 

[Ghetto_Ghost]

whats the moral of it?

 

[Rukas]

You're supposed to work that out for yourself. Im not holding your hand through the article. It has a lot of contradictions, that hopefully if you are intelligent enough and pick up on, will make you think.

 

[Ghetto_Ghost]

^ i think its dumb

 

[Rukas]

^^ I think you're dumb. or, you have never lived in a shitty neighbourhood and just cant relate.

Here Ill point something obvious out to you:

"I’m actually in the process of trying to move. Sure its mainly to do with trying to better my lifestyle and move on, but deep down inside I know a large reason for it is the consent self doubt when asked where I live by a boss, girl or her family, or someone obviously better off. Yet somehow I love this area, I went to school here, my friends live here, but I hate it at the same time. I hate how it makes me feel inadequate in the grand scheme of things, as if I don’t belong in the wider spectrum of human economical existence. No one who is a success came from here, and if they did they sure as hell moved on. Sell outs. Right? Not to mention the fact that I live here means I must be illiterate, dumb, and unable to string together a coherent sentence let alone be a productive member of society."

Im commenting, in that paragraph, on how quickly we will label people sell outs, for moving on to bigger and better things, yet deep down we all want to move on as well. We, as in the hip-hop community, or as in people from poorer areas.

Like I said, I think you're dumb, or just spoilt and cant relate.

 

[Amara]

(You dont do yourself justice posting reference to it in here, should be WoW)

Area as a method of social status is about as superficial a standard of measurement as I have ever known. But you are right in the sense that is not only a concept by which well-to-do discriminate against those who are not, it is just as much a method by which reverse discrimination occurs. It is a sad point of reality that materialistic displays of economic status is the basis by which we judge, (is it even about that though, I guess it is more about percieved status - often ill-perceived too) but if not that, then what - society has an inherent tendency to devalue and make inadequate the circumstances of others... and what for, to bolster one's own self worth...

I dunno if 'rep yo hood' is the right message so much as 'rep yo self - without reference to the socially constructed superficialities.'

 

[Ghetto_Ghost]

^ na i get what you're sayin now that you broke it down

 

[SicC]

ghost = forrest gumps kid.

pz

 

[Ghetto_Ghost]

(You dont do yourself justice posting reference to it in here, should be WoW)

Area as a method of social status is about as superficial a standard of measurement as I have ever known. But you are right in the sense that is not only a concept by which well-to-do discriminate against those who are not, it is just as much a method by which reverse discrimination occurs. It is a sad point of reality that materialistic displays of economic status is the basis by which we judge, (is it even about that though, I guess it is more about percieved status - often ill-perceived too) but if not that, then what - society has an inherent tendency to devalue and make inadequate the circumstances of others... and what for, to bolster one's own self worth...

I dunno if 'rep yo hood' is the right message so much as 'rep yo self - without reference to the socially constructed superficialities.'

are you like an anthropologist or sumthin

 

[Ghetto_Ghost]

ghost = forrest gumps kid.

pz

SicC = Garth Brooke's wigger brother

 

[SicC]

SicC = Garth Brooke's wigger brother

damn how did u know....LOL.

pz

 

[Rukas]

(You dont do yourself justice posting reference to it in here, should be WoW)

Area as a method of social status is about as superficial a standard of measurement as I have ever known. But you are right in the sense that is not only a concept by which well-to-do discriminate against those who are not, it is just as much a method by which reverse discrimination occurs. It is a sad point of reality that materialistic displays of economic status is the basis by which we judge, (is it even about that though, I guess it is more about percieved status - often ill-perceived too) but if not that, then what - society has an inherent tendency to devalue and make inadequate the circumstances of others... and what for, to bolster one's own self worth...

I dunno if 'rep yo hood' is the right message so much as 'rep yo self - without reference to the socially constructed superficialities.'

The "Rep Yo Hood" at the end is in brackets because it is a quote, one that I hope readers will ponder on. Is it valid or not? Should we rep our 'hood or not?

Its a sarcastic end that will either leave the reader agreeing with it, or disagreeing with it.

 

[SicC]

u two bore me.

pz

 

[Amara]

Its a sarcastic end that will either leave the reader agreeing with it, or disagreeing with it.

I gathered that from your tone and expression in the last paragraph it was sarcastic, but I was putting in my 2 cents worth about it.... that it is not a particularly helpful message being sent out by society as it serves to perpetuate the cycle of socio-economic discrimination by legitimising prejudice in a reverse sense (but you know the ironic cycle anyway).

 

[Jokerman]

When ideological distance is large, a "high-trust" regime prevails: Within some intermediate range, both equilibria coexist. We then study the optimal organization of influence activities, contrasting levels when interest groups act independently and when they coordinate. We identify the situations where they agree that coordination is best, or that non-coordination is best.

 

[S O F I]

Who is "we"? I'm a hip hop fan, and I don't think moving on to better things means selling out. Although rap artists nowadays like to think so, I know I don't and I know many others don't tend to think so as well. Now, although I know the "Rep yo' hood" is in sort of a sarcastic tone, I would like to know how does somebody go about repping their hood.

 

[linx]

I've never been the type to rep where i'm from to be honest. Why? Because no matter where you live there are all kinds of people. The real people, the bitches and all other kinds. I'd rep where I was from if it was filled with real people, but what place is actually like that? In my opinion, too many people are proud of where they are from. See what i'm saying? When it comes to being proud about certain things, I just don't really believe in it. Ok, so some white dude does some good for the world, should I be proud to be white? Not when I turn around and I see some white dude rob a liquor store. The same goes for a black person, hispanic and anything else. It's hard to be pround of something these days.