I grew up in Potomac, Maryland. The Wikipedia article covers pretty much all you need to know about the place.
My family lived pretty well. We were also, and continue to be, black.
Now, we weren't alone in this collection of circumstances. There were plenty of families in Potomac that fit the same profile, and some had sons. And those sons, around high school age? They did a really interesting thing.
They suddenly transformed into the phoniest motherfuckers that ever walked the Earth.
The closest I can come to describing them is "black wiggers." Guys who decided they didn't fit the profile, and that had to be fixed.
Have you ever been around two to twelve deeply self-conscious and insecure teenage boys from six figure income homes, faking ghetto accents, lying about where they were born, and pretending to strongly identify with N.W.A. lyrics? I have. Lots of fun. Except not.
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Not that this little story has anything to do with today's update, of course.
Back to work. More tomorrow.
At Sixth Form (senior year + 1st year of College for American schools) in Hong Kong, I got to laugh at all the guys in the years below me.
Chinese wiggers. 'Chiggers' I guess. Absolutely HILARIOUS.
"Sup dawg?"
"DUDE! YOUR NAME IS CHI HO!"
"don be hatin"
I lived in Odenton for three years... I know the type well. Never ceased to amuse.
Oh god. *shudders* I quit school to home school on my own for a reason. That was one of the many reasons. I went ot elementry and middle school in Ft. Thomas, Kentucky where there were ONLY 5 black families in the entire fucking city. Thats a good 30^2 miles of residenceal areas there. By 7th grade, the 3 black kids in my class of 250 took it upon themselves to "be keepin' it rea' fro' the hoods, dawg." They all had a minnimum of a low 6 figures comeing from both parents and in one case, a nice sized 7 figures from a P&G executive.
When I moved to Colerain, Ohio for high school, it got worse. It's one of those schools with a 700+ class even with a 15% drop out rate(I shit you not). The enrolment area is some 1000^2 miles due to the fact its a fucking farming city just slightly due North-East. Aside from that, its another mid 5-low 6 figure income zone with 1-3 kids per house. Maybe about 30-40% of the class was black and they ALL acted like that along with about half the the white guys and gals as well.
You were either a wiger/faker, stoner, out-cast, jock(i.e.- subrace with in the wiger/faker breed), or geek/nerd. At least 50% of the School belonged to the former. It became a real pain in the ass to get from one class to the other with out a massive headache brought on from hearing 50 people say "It' like the total shit, dawg! 'Drop it like its hot' is fuckin' the shit dawg!" As a direct result of me being dyslexic, thus being a fully auditory learner, and having to hear 10 conversation being held by the black wigers, as you call them, surounding me at any givin moment in a 50 person class, I had a lower than 40% average for grades. This was only brought to that by my very silent geomotry class(a year ahead for a 9th grader) in which I got a 98% in for the year.
In short, I am very familiar with those that you speak of. Me and my sister have been planning on executing our plans of gathering them all up and dropping them of in a gheto in the 'un-numbered' sections of New York city and reward any survivors after a week $10 millon dollors. We may not have $10 million to give, but I highly doubt that would become an issue. Anyone want to join in on our plans?
I live in a smaller, suburban town west of Chicago. Alot of people there are pretty rich, the six-figure-income type. I gotta say, I see the "black wiggers" every day at school. (I'm a High School senior.) They crack me up. We call 'em Oreos though.
Oh yes...I know those kinds of people well...I've lived most of my life in Chicago, and when I was younger, I had a friend from the Old Town (pretty wealthy) area whose family easilly earned six figures, who was a pretty cool guy until he decided that talking like he's "ghetto", dressing like crap, and telling everyone he used to be from the South Side of Chicago (which, despite the bad rap it gets, has a lot of really cool neighborhoods...one of which I spent a chunk of my life in) was cool, and that anyone who idn't "keep it real" like he did, was a poser. It only made it more ironic and funny that, not only was he white, but I don't think any of his friends who shared his ridiculous behavior were actually black or anything less than priviledged financially either.
I thought he and the rest of them were the most ridiculous thing I had ever seen...then again, he also turned into a grade-A ass when he fell in with them, so any good points their new-found personas may have had were lost on me. :-)
I've known a couple guys like that. The best part? They were solidly middle-class Canadians who'd never been near the inner city, much less one south of the border.
In Canada this is true- Black Canadians have either long since joined the mainstream, are recent arrivals from the Carribean or Africa, or middle class American emigrants. Any ghetto-ese you hear up here is ENTIRELY FAKE.
...Although maybe I shouldn't talk, as I've been known to behave like a reverse banana. Mmm. Canto-pop.