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vSkyzv
10-14-2007, 01:41 PM
I think the terms mentioned are overused and should not be used at all. By doing so you are promoting hardship and violence. I have seen these both in user names as well as a player's location where he put "The Ghetto". I have no idea what got inside their head but I will educate all who think that is okay.

Beginnings of the "Ghetto"
The word "ghetto" is a term used to describe a low-income area also known as the projects. It started in World War Two when may people moved the coastal regions of the United States to search for a job. The main employer were the Naval shipyards producing ships for our Naval fleet. However years after the war ended so did their employment as the shipyards were closed. Thus, leaving many unemployed which leads to the conditions today.

What is the "Ghetto?"
As you already know it is a low-income area which also contributes to the rise of gangs. Look I would never ever want to live in the "Ghetto." I can also say that everybody in the ghetto would like to have their living conditions improved drastically. The ghetto is full of old deteriorating homes whose owners cannot afford maintainence of their homes. Jobs are scarce while existing jobs pay very little. There is a lack of a "father-figure" to motivate their children in education which leads to this continuing and a sole mother with her pathetic SS check to make ends meet. Sometimes mom would starve to feed her kids and sometimes they would all starve.

Gangs
Gangs a group of people involved in illegal activities. I live in Oakland but not the ghetto. However I can tell you that there have been eighty+ homicides this year mostly gang-related. Gangs are related in shootings, homicides, drug-dealing or prostitution or all of the preceding. They recruit children which ruins their education and worst of all they may end up in prison or dead. They deal drugs which cause addiction while the customer doesn't have the money. Therefore he ends up dead. Gangs may also fight with other gangs but keep in mind the gangs are made up of recruited children. Gang violence can cause one too many stray bullets to fly and kill a baby. Gangs sadly may also kill at memorials for homicide victims as I have seen on the news.

End
The ghetto is a harsh area to live and some of it's inhabitants have been killed. Gangs are violent groups of brain-washed children which commit many illegal activities. These both are horrible but we do not need to endorse or popularize them in anyway. I also suggest we allow people with gansta etc in their names to change them if they wish.

pEaCe OuT

vSkyzv
10-14-2007, 01:47 PM
Bumped *sigh*

DariuS
10-14-2007, 02:14 PM
Nice
I Use To Live In Queenz Aka NY
Think There Is No Gangs TherE?
O_O And Did You Know Ghetto Started In WW2
When Hitlet and The Halocaust Stuff
The Ghetto Was The Only NeighborHood
They Had Money But That Was The Name Of
Where They Lived

Exactly:FUN FACT:
Ghetto Is A Over Used Word
And Racist
This Is Comin From a Blk Guy

Like When You Do Something Out Of NAture
And "WhitePpL" Say Omg They Are Ghetto(Not Bein Racist)
I HAVE A BIG Azz EXPERIENCE

Story:Well One Day Me And Some Friends Felt Like Playin BasketBall
Well Soon We Get Out All The Cars Keep Comin...So..I Put A Stop Sign Infront Of The Cars
So They Cant Come Threw So..Lead To a Fight.
I WON OF COURSE BEATED HIS ARSE BLOODY!

Continuing:Well I Got Tired Of Then COmin Threw Cuz I Moved It Bcuz They Called The Cops
So I Got My Sniping Rifle 50cal Pellet Gun Got On My Roof And When They Came By I Got Em So Bad...I Think They Are Dead But Who Cares N-E wayz...I KEPT SHOOTIN EM
SO GUESS WHO SHOWED UP!
THE COPS!
SO...HOw G I AM I SHOT THE COPS CAR SHATTERIN THE WINDOW LIKE A REAL SNIPER

FACT:Never Show Your Barrel

Continuing:Well..They Seen My Damn BArrle Some Damn How
They Had A Damn K-9
ROFL...WHAT YOU THINK I DID?
I SHOT THAT DAMN DOG HE WAS QUITE
I JUMPED DOWN PUT THE DOG IN THE BUSHES
GOT BACK ON MY ROOF WITH SOME LEAVES

FACT:Need Leaves Or Anything For Camo

Continuing:I SHOT ONE OF THE COPS IN THE LEG
Made Him Fall
I JUMPED DOWN AND RAN (FOR MY LIFE)
REMEMBER THO THERE IS STILL ONE COP
CHASIN ME DOWN THE STREET
SO...I HOPPED A COUPLE OF FENCES
AND RAN DOWN THE STREET THREW MY GUN IN THE BUSHES
HE RAN PASSED IT

Fact: Get Rid Of Evidence QUICK

Continuing: HE RAN PASSED IT I WAS SMILIN WHILE RUNNIN HE SCREAM STOP RUNNIN OR I WILL GET BACK UP AND IT WONT BE PRETTY
SO I TLD HIM F YOU WHILE HES CALLIN ME A "GHETTO AZZ"
AND RAN FASTER LIKE I USED TO IN TRACK
SO...They Had The Sqaud Cars And EveryThing Like 2
And In Both Cars Was 2 Fat BOYZ I Lost Them
And Went Back Home
And I Moved That Dead Dog And Went In The House Cleand My Hands
Changed Clothes Asked My Bro TO Line Me Up And Give Me a Fade


Week Later:Some How..The Dumb Pigs Knockin On My Door.
So I Tried to Run But They Had Mor Pigs Around The BACK
SURROUNDING ME
SO I WENT TO JDC FOR THE NIGHT THEY CANT SEND ME TO JAIL
BCUZ I DONT HIT 18 TILL SEPT NEXT YEAR
THEY TRIED TO GET ME WITH ATTEMPTD MURDER
ROFL...Had NO Proof

Remembered Fact:Get Rid Of EVIDENCE quickly!

Continuing:So Then I Lied...About Them Hittin Me
Point To One If The Old Bruises I HAd From Fights
And GOt Extra 1,000 Bucks In My Pockets
YEP THATS RIGHT SUED THEY BUTTZ!

Remember kids
DariusPwnzALL

~TheEnd

cooltim123
10-14-2007, 02:14 PM
Honorp00ner, So are you criticizing rap or the culture? Because hitting on either one is criticizing both. Sure a lot of rap culture is about "sex, violence, and money" as middle aged parents put it... but it is really more than that. Rappers come from ghettos around major cities, and most of them grew up on welfare, poor families before they became rich and famous. when they talk about "ghetto" and "gangsta" it's talking about life in the "hood". Getting money, driving a Mercedes, thats every ghetto kid's dream to live like that while they're on welfare and chances are they'll be arrested for drug dealing. We just follow that culture and thats why they dont like us whites and middle class people because we dress and talk like rappers and listen to the music but we have no idea what its like to live in the slum and to drug deal for money and to have a gun pointed at your face or one of your friends shot on the street. Trust me, I'm a white kid living in New Jersey and its far from the hood, but I knew a lot of kids from new york that lived in the slum and once you see the ghettos you can understand why and how gangs are formed and why there is so much violence and drugs.
By the way, this should be in general discussion not pawn discussion. Please move this.

DariuS
10-14-2007, 02:17 PM
Honorp00ner, So are you criticizing rap or the culture? Because hitting on either one is criticizing both. Sure a lot of rap culture is about "sex, violence, and money" as middle aged parents put it... but it is really more than that. Rappers come from ghettos around major cities, and most of them grew up on welfare, poor families before they became rich and famous. when they talk about "ghetto" and "gangsta" it's talking about life in the "hood". Getting money, driving a Mercedes, thats every ghetto kid's dream to live like that while they're on welfare and chances are they'll be arrested for drug dealing. We just follow that culture and thats why they dont like us whites and middle class people because we dress and talk like rappers and listen to the music but we have no idea what its like to live in the slum and to drug deal for money and to have a gun pointed at your face or one of your friends shot on the street. Trust me, I'm a white kid living in New Jersey and its far from the hood, but I knew a lot of kids from new york that lived in the slum and once you see the ghettos you can understand why and how gangs are formed and why there is so much violence and drugs.

YESSiR THATS WHAT IM TALKIN BOUT!
THATS RIGHT!

live
10-14-2007, 02:19 PM
So i can post about pie in a pawn game specific section of the forum?

greb
10-14-2007, 09:37 PM
YESSiR THATS WHAT IM TALKIN BOUT!
THATS RIGHT!

Your signature is too big. Size regulations are 600 x 300. Ill give you 24 hours, if i have to do it myself you get an infraction.

Ps. He pleaded guilty....