Barbara Lickness wrote:
Most of the graffiti in my neighborhood is done by
white kids who live primarily in the suburbs according
the police experts I talk to about this issue.
The police told us the same thing over in Central, where, right now,
gang graffiti is on a spectacular rise. It really grind my grits that
middle class kids both from the suburbs and from pricier areas of the
city come over here to make their mess. Now that's an example of an
attitude learned at home. "Those people" are not as important as we are,
we can dump on them and there won't be any consequences. The sheer
effrontery is abominable.
The gangs, by the way, with their graffiti, are essentially doing the
same thing, but for them "those people" are everyone who is not in the
gang. It's the same when they break into a business around here--this
has happened--rob the business, then do a b.m. on the owner's desk.
It's, literally, 'I can do this and you can't do s**t to stop me." Up
yours, sucker!" Of course, we tout that kind of attitude in popular
culture, so it's hardly a mystery that, as a unit, we seem to have a
chip on our shoulder, a big one, maybe on both shoulders, toward any one
and any thing that we can define as "other." Maybe that's why George W.
Bush is president. He's certainly the poster boy for that attitude.
WizardMarks, Central
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