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hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
Brooke Baldwin![]()
she threw up that red card on that white man, before that, she grab the brother arm to calm him down, some on "remember how hot I am before you beat this muthafukker up"
Brooke Baldwin![]()
We love to embrace the negative stereotypes of ourselves and wear them as a badge of honor.
For example, the "ghetto", nothing to be proud about...at all. What did we do...we made the ghetto and projects seem cool. Had suburbanites leaving their nice safe hoods to experience life in our world.
We're also good at taking words and making them ours (thug, phat, gangsta, ill, etc). It's part of our creativity.
Thug was not a term originally dedicated to us. It was used to describe someone who committed violent crimes in an unorganized manner. A description lower than a gangster. A thug is someone who does the dirty work and takes the fall for a gangster. A thug lacks the smarts and sophistication of a gangster.
Sometime in the early 90's, an official used the term to describe a black person who committed a violent crime. Before this, in our music we would use the term gangsta. This official used the term to slight the black criminals as not being sophisticated enough to be gangsters.
We did what we do and took the word for ourselves. We proudly labeled ourselves as "thugs". To understand this you have to go deeper.
As I've said, we're actually rejecting white "culture". We're rebelling against this system they have set up, which every other race for the most part, are assimilating too. As are our c00ns and others but they are portrayed as the minority. No other race CULTURALLY is as against the grain as we are. Notice the word culture.
The word is a safe racist word, but it's also to do with culture. That's the out white people who aren't racist have. They don't hate our black skin, they "hate our culture". For some, this is pretty accurate, at least in their minds.
So it can be racist...but at times it's about culture...just as big a threat to white supremacy. You can't fight WS if you submit to their culture, they win by default.
Our coolness and flamboyant nature is at odds with WS.
Like it or not, right or wrong, the word has been attached to black people. Lol...at our request. Before our request, it was used for other races too. Same way "ghetto" and "projects" weren't exclusive to us. We made ourselves the poster children for those terms.
That's where manning up comes into play. We gave them a safe racist word to generalize us with. And it's human nature to generalize people, even we do it. Do we not generalize Asians and Hispanics?
As been mentioned, there's thousands of albums with "thug" used as a badge. NO...the term didn't begin with hip hop...but WE embraced it. And totally different from the term "******". ****** was exclusive to black people, thug was not.
Some of y'all are using Pac as an example, but don't even know the history behind his whole "Thug Life" movement. Everything he did, he did it for a reason. If you knew the history, Pac wouldn't even be mentioned in this discussion.


By who?I herad Sadam Hussein referred to as a thug yesterday![]()
@kp404 the new race track?Been some dumb shyt gettin dumped in hea lately.![]()
It's time to do a quick clean up@kp404 the new race track?
By who?