Comments on: How to Create a Ghetto – a Dish for one Community

By: Assad

Assad — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:44:04 +0000

This is a great poem… You tell it how you see it and you really do get your message across, It’s truly a great one, probably your best. keep up the great writing mate

By: Hayley

Hayley — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:07:49 +0000

Ok, well to begin with I really enjoyed your poem. Brave, true and an honest expression of YOUR life experience, and obviously not put out here to hurt anyone. I neither found it racist, sexist or offensive. Simply an observation, and a clever one at that. The truth is, this really is happening ALL OVER THE WORLD, regardless of race.

By: NA

NA — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:47:29 +0000

This is super helpful, I understand where you’re coming from in this poem too, i grew up in a so clled “Ghetto” had a lot of “Ghetto” friends, just recently i moved WAYY out of state to like a whole new place where there is black majority and i can very well say there are different Ghettos, over here where i live now it’s a black ghetto community with gangs and fights where they believe that there never was a more dangerous place than here…excuse my language but WTF!……I understand the ghetto thing but that doesn’t mean that i person that has never been out of that community can say that their hometown is the ghettoest place ever!….Back where i used to live it was a minority of black but a high concentration of Arabs – they believed that “they wuz ghetto as hell” too so there you have it…not towards black it can be Asians, Middle Easterners, Mexicans, South Americans, Canadians- wherever it may be…………..ANYWAYS this is a great example of a political poem showing how the community is now and how certain words affect people (eg: alleged “racism against blacks” said in most comments) and yes its true the next generation will get only half the morals and life lessons than the last but it is also true that they will gain something the last generation didnt have.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:12:07 +0000

I also know many males blah blah blah.

I actually live in this community and this is what I’ve seen.

From your POV it’s a sexist community, where the women are more constrained by social mores than the males. Can’t do anything about that; that’s the way it is. That’s the way it works.

Why should I want to promote gender equality? And does promoting gender equality mean writing airy fairy fiction?

By: NA

NA — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:00:30 +0000

This poem is clearly sexist, on what kind of evidence do you base your argument that third generation females are the only ones to thrive in a harsh environment. This is obviously a generalization. Of course the factor of the “Macho” stereotype applies to the majority of crime, however, one must consider that with this poem, you are not promoting gender equality. In fact, I know many males from this sort of backgrounds who went to university and have successfully achieved a more than adequate standard of living.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:39:23 +0000

Ummm – this wasn’t aimed at black people. Believe it or not you can have ghettoes of all sorts of different races. Any group of immigrants, for example. Where I live it’s people from the Indian subcontinent, and yes, I lived a few hundred yards from the core and it’s not BS, the first generation had spiritual values, the second has semi-spiritual values, and a huge part of the third generation (of males) has lost the plot completely with joyriding, drugs and general yobbery. Some of them I knew from little children. The third-generation females, on the other hand, have by and large not lost the plot and are out there getting jobs (or bringing up children).

We can debate why this has happened – Westernisation, rigid patriarchal institutions crumbling, male loss of identity, male spiritual weakness, the long time it takes males to mature as opposed to females, the more focussed expectations on women (get married by age 22 and have kids) – but it’s happening.

By: N/A

N/A — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:11:02 +0000

That is some B.S i cant beleive they posted that …. . I am black i live in the so called “ghetto” all that stuff goes on and most of us still make it out to do good things with our lives….so a little advice for whoever wrote that dont let the ghetto-ness fool you….being raised in the ghetto is better than being raised in a suburban neighborhood having everything handed to you…here we dont have that and it pushes us harder to get out look at some of these rich whites people loosing everything going to jail all types of stuff so they aint no better in my eyes…same things goes on in the so called “Ghetto” but aint nobody talking about what goes on in the suburbs….think about that

By: N/A

N/A — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:02:28 +0000

I understand, I’ve been there myself, I’ve seen it and experienced it. I was raised in it, but did not allow it to define me.
(editted)

By: admin

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:02:17 +0000

Nice comment. Seriously.

Like I’ve said, this is actually what happened in the area where I live, and for ten years I lived in the poor bit.

By: N/A

N/A — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:23:39 +0000

I really do not think this is directed to black people, and if it was the writer has little knowledge on the subject matter. Maybe the writer saw a TV special and has declared himself an expert. Black, Brown, White, Yellow, whatever mix in between; we all have groups that live in poverty. They are just named differently, ie: ghetto, bario, trailer park. So, no one cultural race can ever be better than another, because we all have our best and our worst.