Comments on: ‘Ghetto:’ Five Reasons to Rethink the Word http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/05/ghetto-five-reasons-to-rethink-the-word/ Race, Class, The District. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ratturd http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/05/ghetto-five-reasons-to-rethink-the-word/#comment-1570 Ratturd Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:49:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=6789#comment-1570 Good.  Act ghetto and you'll be treated as such.  Just so your expectations are established.  For someone to esteme to be labled as ghetto is in interesting choice. Good.  Act ghetto and you’ll be treated as such.  Just so your expectations are established.  For someone to esteme to be labled as ghetto is in interesting choice.

]]> By: Be http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/05/ghetto-five-reasons-to-rethink-the-word/#comment-1469 Be Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:39:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=6789#comment-1469 what i want to know is why we only use the term "inner city" to refer to poor black and latino kids. i've lived in DC a long time and i've yet to find this "inner city".  what i want to know is why we only use the term “inner city” to refer to poor black and latino kids. i’ve lived in DC a long time and i’ve yet to find this “inner city”. 

]]> By: Be http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/05/ghetto-five-reasons-to-rethink-the-word/#comment-1468 Be Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:34:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=6789#comment-1468 words morph. in contemporary slang, Ghetto, means low class. like redneck, like bama. the problem is not that we have pejoratives, the problem is that we have few diverse narratives to expand our minds and opinions. taking words out of usage doesn't educate.  words morph. in contemporary slang, Ghetto, means low class. like redneck, like bama. the problem is not that we have pejoratives, the problem is that we have few diverse narratives to expand our minds and opinions. taking words out of usage doesn’t educate. 

]]> By: Oboe Eobo http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/05/ghetto-five-reasons-to-rethink-the-word/#comment-1157 Oboe Eobo Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:18:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=6789#comment-1157 Can we still say 'bama? :) Can we still say ‘bama?
:)

]]> By: Anonymous http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/05/ghetto-five-reasons-to-rethink-the-word/#comment-1092 Anonymous Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:34:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=6789#comment-1092 I find it hard to believe you are actually from somewhere classified as a "ghetto". The message of this article was to not mislabel and demonize others because they may be from a ghetto with your stereotypes of what "ghetto" people act like. Likewise, don't label something ghetto that really isn't just because you have a negative and warped view of what a ghetto is or what the term means. I find it hard to believe you are actually from somewhere classified as a “ghetto”. The message of this article was to not mislabel and demonize others because they may be from a ghetto with your stereotypes of what “ghetto” people act like. Likewise, don’t label something ghetto that really isn’t just because you have a negative and warped view of what a ghetto is or what the term means.

]]> By: Ghettogyal http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/05/ghetto-five-reasons-to-rethink-the-word/#comment-738 Ghettogyal Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:12:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=6789#comment-738 "What I know about “inner city blacks,” of those who “act ghetto,” is the same as what I lately came to know about about suburban whites, about Puerto Rican New Yorkers, about Ivy [League] graduates, about gay conservatives, and Israeli-Americans. That they are all different from us all and from each other, that they deserve to be treated with the same nuance, with the same soft touch, with the same eye for complexity and dimension that you’d want for your own family in friends. Are you kidding me?   Wow.  Y'all are softies!  "Treated with soft touch and eye for complexity?"   Sounds to me like Stepford Robots!  This blog is a PC mouthpiece for the thought police.   I'll act as ghetto as I please AND I'll tell someone else they are "acting ghetto" if they do! “What I know about “inner city blacks,” of those who “act ghetto,” is the same as what I lately came to know about about suburban whites, about Puerto Rican New Yorkers, about Ivy [League] graduates, about gay conservatives, and Israeli-Americans. That they are all different from us all and from each other, that they deserve to be treated with the same nuance, with the same soft touch, with the same eye for complexity and dimension that you’d want for your own family in friends.
Are you kidding me?   Wow.  Y’all are softies!  “Treated with soft touch and eye for complexity?”   Sounds to me like Stepford Robots! 

This blog is a PC mouthpiece for the thought police.   I’ll act as ghetto as I please AND I’ll tell someone else they are “acting ghetto” if they do!

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