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bravenak

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10. I see them all the time up here, it's like a thing.

Reply to JI7 (Reply #8)

Mon Jun 15, 2015, 04:24 PM

Jun 2015

I remember about seven or eight years back, maybe more, when Paul Wall got a bit of fame... Every White Boy in Anchorage seemed like, had a stupid ass grill in their mouth, blue rhinestones, white, yellow, pink! It was super dumb. They even opened up a little kiosk in the mall selling those shits. I laughed and laughed. I clowned everybody with a fake grill.

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re Rachel Dolezal, what do African Americans think of white kids who act like black rappers? [View all] yurbud Jun 2015 OP

I usually laugh inside. bravenak Jun 2015 #1

Which made me laugh outside marym625 Jun 2015 #2

Hee hee! bravenak Jun 2015 #3

But WHY? n/t Smarmie Doofus Jun 2015 #4

Lol, you know why. bravenak Jun 2015 #5

those two wouldn't get any girls yurbud Jun 2015 #9

Lol! bravenak Jun 2015 #11

Lol F4lconF16 Jun 2015 #6

You shoulda dropped the mic on them fools. bravenak Jun 2015 #7

i saw one at least in his 30s and looked closer to 40s recently JI7 Jun 2015 #8

I see them all the time up here, it's like a thing. bravenak Jun 2015 #10

I wonder if they'll keep it up into the rest home yurbud Jun 2015 #12

Act like? Silly JustAnotherGen Jun 2015 #13

There's a really good book about minstrel culture tishaLA Jun 2015 #14

Thanks for this post JustAnotherGen Jun 2015 #15

What's Spike Lee's critique of Tyler Perry? That he only shows middle to upper middle class blacks? yurbud Jun 2015 #17

He calls it "coonery buffoonery" tishaLA Jun 2015 #18

I didn't know black people didn't go to Rosewood. I saw it yurbud Jun 2015 #19

This or something similar usually happens Number23 Jun 2015 #16

I used to see a lot of guys like that when I played poker BainsBane Jun 2015 #20

They're mocking and making fun of them/playing up stereotypes about black people. Liberal_Stalwart71 Jun 2015 #21