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My thoughts about gangs

Journal Entry: Sun Jan 30, 2011, 2:29 AM


For fuck's sake you need to quit bothering me with all this gang-banger nonsense.  I wrote a report about "A Clockwork Orange" in college, comparing it to films like "Boyz in the Hood" and "Menace to Society."  I watch "Gangland" on the info channels.  Like every other person from my generation, I grew up with gangsters rapping on the television, the radio and everywhere else.  You sold it to me. Gangs have influenced every conceivable aspect of American life, from fashion to corporate business to education.  That's why when you invade my privacy, trespassing uninvited into my world, you pick up tidbits of gangster trivia.  You are trying to understand what makes me tick but you are too deceitful to simply ask me about me outright.  Your ignorance equals misunderstanding and fear.  You simply do not understand what has happened to popular culture in the last few decades.  I listen to all kinds of music, including rap and hip-hop.  Yeah, rap AND hip-hop.  WITH BLACK PEOPLE!  *gasp*  I love Metallica, Lynard Skynard and Tennessee Ernie Ford, but even so, selecting a Young Jeezy track in the comfort of my own home invites the unwarranted invasion of my world by every hater and their mother.  You can't for the life of you comprehend what horrible malfunctions must be occurring in my mind that would cause me to listen to such mess, and in a desperate attempt to familiarize unfamiliar cultural nuance you mistakenly treat me as though I am a part of whatever demonized collective you fancy.  Well guess what?  You're wrong.  Horrendously so.  Other people are influenced by these mistaken assumptions and the next thing I know, I'm being singled out and harassed by the community, the law AND the real gangbangers.  I am not nor have I ever been a gang member and I never will be.  Quit subjecting me to your ignorant, misguided interpretation of reality.  Contrary to popular belief, the gang bangers aren't going to parade all of the good little white kids off of a cliff like some urban Pied Pipers.  Well, not all of the good little white kids, anyways.  They certainly aren't taking my 30 year old cheesy cracker ass anywhere anytime soon so do everybody and yourselves a favor and kindly knock it off with all that crap, will ya?  Thanks in advance, ya honkys.  :XD:

Lighten up!


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*GosteOner Jan 30, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
:lmao: haha yeah bro. well im really against the gangsta shit, i feel that it ruined hip hop. anyways every1 here is a whiteboy "8th grader" wangsta. i say 8th grader because they usually are very retarded when it comes to music and how they get retarded ideas from the shit they listen to. along with the movie "how high" but thats another story for another time ;)
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Each to his own. If there is one thing that gangster rap lyrics teach more than anything else, it is that gang bangers don't have much of a future beyond prison and an early grave. Any success seems to be overshadowed by paranoia, violence and being forced to live outside of normal societal boundaries attempting to evade law enforcement. What a nightmare. I'm not interested in defending or condemning a person for choosing to be in a gang. People make choices based on their own perception of their own unique reality, and since my reality isn't their reality, what the hell would I know about it? Be that as it may, existing in your own reality and having good reasons for your decisions isn't going to mean shit to somebody else if you've just victimized them. The line must be drawn somewhere and right there is where most everybody draws the fucker, like it or not. :shrug:


I never got a hold of a copy of "How High." I'm not a big fan of comedies in general, but "How High" had Redman and Method Man in it so I figured I'd end up watching it at some point. From what you're saying I'm guessing you wouldn't recommend it, am I right?
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*GosteOner Jan 30, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
mhm, well i believe the whole gang mentality shit is created from their "manly" egos and how they must "cap any foo" who disrespects them. hah pretty primitive way to live, but then again gang bangers arent noted for their brilliant minds ;).

and no dude never watch that fucking movie. ive know so many people, not saying theyre stupid, but i guess theyre simpler to amuse, who enjoy this shit movie. and like i said 8th graders are retarded and very easy to amuse, i was in 7th when i saw this movie. my friend thought it was the best thing ever, because it had "niggas", pot smoking, drug deals, pimp slappin white girls, and other horrible generalizations that just made me say :iconwtfisthisplz:

overall i was embarrassed to be in the same room as someone who was enjoying this movie.

also u got my link to the full wave twisters video right?
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yessir, haven't watched the rest yet tho... Black Ops demands my entire Sunday! MUST... GET... LV 15 PRESTIGE RANKING!
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*GosteOner Jan 30, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
ahahah wow man
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