Re: Car Stalkers
On my second trip to the land of Aloha,this time it was in Oahu...I saw more rage than I think I have ever encountered in my life...
It came in the form of a skinny, white teenage girl.
It was at the Ala Moana Shopping center. We had just landed in Hawaii a few hours earlier, and were just taking in the shopping center.
This girl apparently had overheard this Japanese teenage(ish) guy saying something to or about her...This girl went ballistic...it was downright scary.
This poor kid is on line at the post office there in the parking area of the shopping center getting berated Gangsta-style by this girl.
She was just freaking out, and this kid was doing his best to just be cool and hope she goes away. She wouldn't...I know Japanese people, I've been to Japan. They are a very Polite bunch. I seriously doubt that this kid was doing ANYTHING to disrespect her. This girl was the classic example of why MTV and all that glamorization of hip hop gangsta bullsh*t is so annoying to me.
She's calling him b*tch,n*gga', the hand gestures etc...
I turned to my kid and said "This is a direct product of MTV and hip hop", because there is no way any white girl living in Hawaii would have acted this way. It was like she was acting out a scene from "Boys n the Hood"
Seriously, I was shook up for like 2 hours. I'm not a wuss by any means, and I know how it is to be pissed off and have rage, but this was just really disturbing, and made me really angry at the same time.It was certainly a sh*tty way to start a trip to HI.
I know blaming it on something like Hip Hop seems like a cheap scapegoat, but, really, where else would this kid get this kind of crap from? Believe me, I'm anti-censorship all the way(Songwriter/producer/musician that I am) but this kind of thing makes me think that the whole "freedom of speech" think is being used irresponsibly, cos kids really latch onto this stuff.
Luckily, the rest of the trip was amazing, and I managed to get this really horrible vision out of my head, proposed to my fiancee' at Alan Wongs and had a wonderful time, but I still remember this, because it all seemed so surreal in a place like Hawaii to see this.
On my second trip to the land of Aloha,this time it was in Oahu...I saw more rage than I think I have ever encountered in my life...
It came in the form of a skinny, white teenage girl.
It was at the Ala Moana Shopping center. We had just landed in Hawaii a few hours earlier, and were just taking in the shopping center.
This girl apparently had overheard this Japanese teenage(ish) guy saying something to or about her...This girl went ballistic...it was downright scary.
This poor kid is on line at the post office there in the parking area of the shopping center getting berated Gangsta-style by this girl.
She was just freaking out, and this kid was doing his best to just be cool and hope she goes away. She wouldn't...I know Japanese people, I've been to Japan. They are a very Polite bunch. I seriously doubt that this kid was doing ANYTHING to disrespect her. This girl was the classic example of why MTV and all that glamorization of hip hop gangsta bullsh*t is so annoying to me.
She's calling him b*tch,n*gga', the hand gestures etc...
I turned to my kid and said "This is a direct product of MTV and hip hop", because there is no way any white girl living in Hawaii would have acted this way. It was like she was acting out a scene from "Boys n the Hood"
Seriously, I was shook up for like 2 hours. I'm not a wuss by any means, and I know how it is to be pissed off and have rage, but this was just really disturbing, and made me really angry at the same time.It was certainly a sh*tty way to start a trip to HI.
I know blaming it on something like Hip Hop seems like a cheap scapegoat, but, really, where else would this kid get this kind of crap from? Believe me, I'm anti-censorship all the way(Songwriter/producer/musician that I am) but this kind of thing makes me think that the whole "freedom of speech" think is being used irresponsibly, cos kids really latch onto this stuff.
Luckily, the rest of the trip was amazing, and I managed to get this really horrible vision out of my head, proposed to my fiancee' at Alan Wongs and had a wonderful time, but I still remember this, because it all seemed so surreal in a place like Hawaii to see this.
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