I tend to get uncomfortable when people say "White kids who pretend to be black"...
When people claim that white people should not wear baggy jeans or kiss their teeth or the like, part of me can't help wondering: Why the hell does the colour of these young fellows' skin preclude them from doing what they want? Surely the real reason they shouldn't wear their jeans so low is because it makes them look like twats, not because they are forbidden from "acting black".

If that logic held I (as one of the brown persuasion) guess I would be obliged to stop wearing tweed and would have to start listening to Bhangra. Ugh.
(I grew it myself, Mon 5 Apr 2010, 13:29, 6 replies)

Too right
It's a disservice to black people to say that these people are "acting black".

There are plenty of black people (most, thankfully!) who do NOT wear their trousers like a penguin. So the people who do are not acting black - they're simply being bell-ends.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Mon 5 Apr 2010, 13:49, closed)

You are, of course, correct.
Twattishness is not colour specific, it's just that this particular added dimension (Tim Westwood syndrome) just happens to really grate with me, and since this topic is about prejudice, I was confessing mine; namely, this:

tinyurl.com/y9jezwq

None of the Asian lads where I live (Wolverhampton) emulate the Kapoors (Coopers) from 'Goodness Gracious Me' (though my mate once bought a Burberry cap until it 'accidentally' got filled with chips). It's only ever the white ones that go round acting as if they are living in a Spike Lee movie...
(Billy The Fish wants to gargle with Lucy Pinder's bath water, Mon 5 Apr 2010, 13:55, closed)

I stand by "Who think they're black" or "who act like they think they're black"
rather than "who act black" because it seems to be that, although someone of any colour or culture can behave in any way, a lot of these fellows appear to dress how they think 'black people' dress - if you get me.

Though I've seen more white kids dressed like this than black, so that distinction is fading, and it's more a case of "them what think they're 'ghetto' when they come from a country (in the case of the UK) with some of the best state education and healthcare in the world."
(Frozen_Banana Shaved against the grain; thoroughly unrewarding., Mon 5 Apr 2010, 14:14, closed)

What is with that
Kissing your teeth thing? I have heard it no end as I pass young black blokes in the street, kind of a cross between a tut and the noise a plumber makes with his teeth just before he says how much he's going to rip me off. What does it mean? I'd love to know.
(Puddle of Sugar was still wallpapering on, Mon 5 Apr 2010, 18:50, closed)

I don't know...
...so sorry for slightly random response, but I've noticed that my sister's friends now write things like 'KMT' on Facebook when they're annoyed...

My sister (very fair skin, curly blonde hair) used to think that she was how she thought black people are... or whatever we've decided is the correct way of phrasing it... and used to plait her hair (cornrows??) or chemically straighten it because all of her black friends did it, and used to say such delights as 'ah man dat's heavy'.

I still like to take the piss out of her about it.
(Cheets, Mon 5 Apr 2010, 22:05, closed)

fo' shizzle

(knackerz is skinning up, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 4:29, closed)