Comments on: Profile: The White-Chocolate Homeboy

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By: Ethnic Will

Ethnic Will — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:27:44 +0000

You get mad props for coming forward with this autobiographical shit. I knew some 90s-style White Chocolates back in the day, and they had the same issue as you–overdoing it (e.g., saying a labored “aw-ite” instead of “all right” at inopportune, inappropriate times).

So I agree that White Chocolatism needs to be subtle to be effective. Add a little street to your mix, but keep it real. It’s interesting that you initially resisted your impulse to skateboard and listen to Blink 182. Presumably, you’re doing that now?

By: White Dave

White Dave — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:19:20 +0000

I was once a full-blown white chocolate. Then I grew up, and realized that skateboarding and blink 182 didn’t have to be gay. And that baby blue sweatsuits with a matching fitted cap, and air force ones, brought alot of unwanted attention to myself. I still enjoy the hip hop culture, still write graff, listen to rap music, and bust out some funky dance moves on a friday night, but I’m not consumed by the idea of trying to associate myself with any one culture or movement, I just ‘do me.’ I think the white chocolate’s problem is that they take themselves to seriously, and in the end they end up looking / acting like clowns, and clowns aren’t serious. Nevertheless as “J” pointed out, there are legitmate white people, who grow up emersed in African American ‘street culture’ and are in a sense legitmate ‘products of their environment’… YEAAAH BABY!

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:59:02 +0000

Random hecklers! Awesome. Small but unmistakable signs of increased relevance.

By: Payazaro

Payazaro — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:05:22 +0000

This is where the phrase “Don’t hate the player, hate the game” might be suitable

By: Ethnic Will

Ethnic Will — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:03:23 +0000

No doubt. I was thinking the same thing. But it wasn’t like I was critical of the group. I was just identifying it. I guess that was enough to upset the homie.

By: Ethnic Will

Ethnic Will — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:46:49 +0000

Ok, ok, I’m “over it.” But one question: Do you think the whole website is “whack,” or just that one post? We’re always looking for ways to improve the website, and they should all be a little like that one. Ya heard?

For a while, we considered turning the site into a preachy, sanctimonious place called “The-Human-Race Street,” but we realized there’s already a huge group of malnourished vegans and hipster canvassers taking care of that arena (mostly, I’m afraid, in the SF Bay Area).

By: Dom

Dom — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:34:58 +0000

I bet a white chocolate wrote that last comment. Ha ha. Doesn’t he or she know that generalizations are hilarious?

By: j

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:05:56 +0000

racist drivel. this is 2010, get over it already. In the real world there are wealthy black people and some of them wear business suits or golf professionally or run the worlds largest superpower. there are also poor and working class people who happen to be of primarily european ancestry, some of whom wear hip hop gear or sell drugs or work a straight job and are just trying to get by like everyone else. This shit isn’t clever. It’s not original. It’s just the same old tired cliched bullshit that small minded people who think your skin color determines what you can or can’t do with your life have been pedaling for centuries.

get over it.

By: Ethnic Will

Ethnic Will — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:28:35 +0000

That’s right! That’s 100 per-sizz-cent my bad. In fact, I have a name for that phenomenon: the “two-sided bid-ness card.” You advertise one business on one side, and a totally unrelated hu$tle on the other.