... the other Black experience
Getting called a 'Jerk'?
Anyone else get this? Seriously it annoys the hell outta me. Ever since those guys came out with that jerk kids with all the black kids dressed like hipsters. Skate shoes, big glasses, ironic t-shirts, and worse of all the levi 511.
Going to a school where like 80% of the kids are black, I hear alot relating to this. Super irritating as I've had this Vans Authentic VNeck and Skinny Jean Fetish for like 2 years, especially since I started riding fixies. Now they think I'm just doing a bad impersonation of those Jerk kids (because I don't have the mr. T starter kit, super clean looking vans (I hate fresh looking shoes), and because I wear skinny jeans the way they are supposed to fit, not 8 sizes big and sagging(seriously they do this)
I just went with contacts for a while, instead of my thick rimmed glasses.
Anyoneelse have this?
Going to a school where like 80% of the kids are black, I hear alot relating to this. Super irritating as I've had this Vans Authentic VNeck and Skinny Jean Fetish for like 2 years, especially since I started riding fixies. Now they think I'm just doing a bad impersonation of those Jerk kids (because I don't have the mr. T starter kit, super clean looking vans (I hate fresh looking shoes), and because I wear skinny jeans the way they are supposed to fit, not 8 sizes big and sagging(seriously they do this)
I just went with contacts for a while, instead of my thick rimmed glasses.
Anyoneelse have this?
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Permalink Reply by Ghettopunkrocker on -
My sister met those guys when she was covering the BET Hip-Hop Awards. Well, I would've punched some manners into 'em.
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Permalink Reply by JICA on -
omg please dont get me started!!!! i went goth when i was in middle school. i was teased relentlessly for acting like a "crazy wannabe white girl" and dressing in all black and listening to rock music. Then this little song came out called "PARTY LIKE A ROCKSTAR" and all the sudden people were wearing black tees with skulls and guitars and shit. talkin about panic at the disco and pete wentz and all these mainstream MTV bands. it pisses me off so hard to see one of these ghetto bitches rockin an AC/DC tee shirt and they DONT EVEN KNOW WHO THEY ARE!!!! and after years of facing the ridicule they take it and make it some sort of trend.! trust me if i met either of those two i would give them a peace of my mind.
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Permalink Reply by Franklin Campbell on -
^PREACH! I forgot about that song!
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Permalink Reply by Ghettopunkrocker on
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Yeah, wearing a band tee and not liking rock is like a woman with a t-shirt that says "Cum Dumpster" and getting offended when a guy hits on her.
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Permalink Reply by Renegade Muthafuckin' Green on -
You are def preaching to the choir.
being that i am a student at an hbcu, i can tell you somethings that would piss u off. and hipsters....i dont believe in em.
well i can share 1 story.
when i 1st started stretching my ears i was asked am i going back 2 africa, do i think im white and all that jazz but soon as i start wearing glass dangling plugs that are gorgeous and other cool plugs i found i have become the ear stretcher on campus. so i guess its just things coming full circle.
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Permalink Reply by Asha Luxe on -
i kinda have a similar experience
when i was in high school i uses to have big pink hair and wear neon colored high heels all the time and crazy jewelry...you kno all that
then scene kids became popular and i was pissed
i dont mind being labeled but i hate it when people think you are trying to fit in with a fad that was your lifestyle before it was even a fad
if that makes any sense lol
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Permalink Reply by Christopher Irving on -
From an old head who experience the ridicule in middle and high school, I've learned to develope my OWN style of dress etc,band t-shirts,I only get them from the concerts I have attended(usually form local bands).
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Permalink Reply by Renegade Muthafuckin' Green on
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I recently started doing that...i actually like their shirts more than i like the national bands....
Christopher Irving said:From an old head who experience the ridicule in middle and high school, I've learned to develope my OWN style of dress etc,band t-shirts,I only get them from the concerts I have attended(usually form local bands).
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Permalink Reply by Haiqeem on -
I do, I finally found my way out of "Fat Pants" when I was 15, and have never returned. Naturally I thought of my "style" of dressing as "sensible" then all of the sudden MTV whips out some more factory made unoriginal music and gives it a new name and style and all of the conformists jump on the bandwagon.
Just yesterday an older 60 somethings guy asked me; "Son, where'd you get your skinny jeans." I replied naturally; "The store" Old man: "You're a jerk?" Me: *Offended*; "Excuse me?" So, then within a quick realization, I figured that's what MTV was calling it these days/
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Permalink Reply by Haiqeem on
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I second that! Supposedly, wearing skinny jeans and black band tee-shirts and having a non-defiant mind of my own was deemed as "unnatural" and in the interest of "homosexuals"; then all of the sudden everyone in my midst is clearly attempting to poorly replicate my teenage style. Good luck to them.
JICA said:omg please dont get me started!!!! i went goth when i was in middle school. i was teased relentlessly for acting like a "crazy wannabe white girl" and dressing in all black and listening to rock music. Then this little song came out called "PARTY LIKE A ROCKSTAR" and all the sudden people were wearing black tees with skulls and guitars and shit. talkin about panic at the disco and pete wentz and all these mainstream MTV bands. it pisses me off so hard to see one of these ghetto bitches rockin an AC/DC tee shirt and they DONT EVEN KNOW WHO THEY ARE!!!! and after years of facing the ridicule they take it and make it some sort of trend.! trust me if i met either of those two i would give them a peace of my mind.
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Permalink Reply by Haiqeem on
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You can say that again.
Ghettopunkrocker said:Yeah, wearing a band tee and not liking rock is like a woman with a t-shirt that says "Cum Dumpster" and getting offended when a guy hits on her.
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Permalink Reply by Nik Phoenixxx on -
When I was in middle school and the early part of my highschool career I was into the whole skinny jeans and vans, but I did it the correct way because I was a fan of rock music(which I still am, just to a lesser degree). I even had a Mohawk bak in 8th grade. I used to be ridiculed soooo much. "You just tryin be white" "you do that white folk shit" "That nigga so gay" "He a fag" all that just because my musical taste and style of dress was a lil different. THEN outta nowhere that "Party Like a Rockstar" song came out and all of a sudden everybody was wearin mohawks and band tshirts, without even knowing the band! then this whole "You're a Jerk" crap hits the streets and now every hood ghetto ass blk boy is wearing skinny jeans and super clean vans(which is a personal annoyance of mine as well). Its like you guys don't know anything about this stuff you're just simply following a fad, unlike us tru "rockers" who had to endure endless ridicule bak when we weren't "In style"
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