Ghetto

This is a funny word. I heard an Aerosmith song today where he had his feet in the ghetto. When was the last time you heard anyone talk about the ghetto? Other than dressing ghetto, it has become a fashion statement instead of a place to live. I think it has been replaced by the hood.

Does the ghetto still exist? It used to be the projects or government housing. Now it is the place where drive by shootings and crack houses are the main sources of entertainment. It is still a place where minorities abound and the poor struggle for daily existance. A place where the man keeps you down and escape is next to impossible. A place to give up and let the system consume the last of your dreams. Isn't fatalism catchy? I fail because the system is designed to make that happen. No I succeed because I want it. Make up your mind. But I digress.

I think of the ghettoes of Krakow in WWII. It is where the Nazis had the Poles penned up and living like animals. Where they went in and killed an entire population because they were not the correct race. What a crime. What a shame. What a disgrace. We went to war to stop insane thinking like that. But lets not talk about Iraq. We have associated ghettoes with keeping a population down and attempting to exterminate them. I am glad that the phrase has gone out of fashion as a place to live and gone into fashion as a style of dress. Just get yourself a basketball jersey and a pair of baggy shorts. Make sure everyone can see your underwear and you've got it. Oh wear a baseball cap. I guess it does not matter which way.

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Cobb