Ghetto

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 14:06 -- cavon

-I was looking out the window 
When I saw a mini van with rims on it

-Are you serious?
That is ghetto

-Hey we should make a ghetto meter to measure how ghetto people are

-Ok, how about:
You know you're ghetto when you put fried chicken and hot sauce in you purse when going to the movies

-Ghetto

-Yea, or when your name is Tadasha
Spelled T - A
Your named after a liquor
You feel it necessary to put two apostrophes in your name
When Bob is spelled with a H
And everybody in your family's names end with eesha

-Hey! My name is Felicia!

-Ghetto

-When you're taking out your pink weave in Walmart

-You talking about that ghetto Walmart on Main st?

-Yea, you know there was a fight up there

-Were there kinky's on the floor

-Yep

-Ghetto

-When your phone goes off in church and it sounds like this:
(Courtney sings and dances)

-Ghetto

-When a white girl walks up and says 
"What's poppin home skillet"

-White

-When you only go to an open house for free food

-Or your nails look like they got into a fight with a 64 piece crayola box

-Or when your front yard consist of dirt, rocks, and a BBQ grill

-Ghetto

-Or when the rich takes money from the poor to keep them in the
Ghetto

-When new immigrants come to the land of opportunity
And we can only provide them with the
Ghetto

-Like when Germans confined Jews prior to their journey to the death camp in the 
Ghetto

-A ghetto
A densely populated slum area of a city inhabited by a socially and economically deprived minority

-Cutting education and jobs keeping us a minority

-Why are there ghettos?

-Moral values have gone down the drain
When there are no opportunities left to gain
Then why must we use the ghettos name in vain

-Why did they change the definition 
So that pink weave is ghetto
But deteriorating projects are not

-That being unique in your choice of name
Can deprive you of a job
Yet a segregated housing development has no meaning

-Connotation twisted
Denotation ignored

-What has happened?

-Manipulating the minority

-Creating ignorance amongst each other

-Ghetto is now a compliment

-Laughing and saying 
“Girl you so ghetto”
Is more than accepted

-It’s welcomed

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