Justin Bieber, 19 years old, belligerent, apparently stoned on a mixture of beer, pot, and prescription drugs--cursing out a cop who had stopped him---represents what has happened to our identity-less white youth. Bieber will no doubt brag to his sycophant friends about his arrest but we all know Bieber wouldn't last five minutes in real jail. What he probably needs is some tough-love from real convicts to remind him of how tough and cool he really is.
The problem is, who are white youth allowed to look up to? Who is cool? Black hip-hop stars are cool, with their substance-abuse, their women-degrading, and in many cases their actual black racism, that is what is cool. Certainly white racists aren’t cool. White Country singers used to be cool, at least to Southern whites, but now they too are increasingly screaming like black gospel singers and non-stop partying, just like the ghetto.
I don't blame black hip-hop stars, they are insisting on their own identity, their own culture, they will seek to rise out of vulgarity, it's whites I blame, or white youth, who do not have the pride or identity to keep from trying to be bad copies of black hip-hop stars. And white youth have so much to be proud of, basically the whole of Western high and low culture, if they were allowed to do so. This isn't equality working, this is the loss of white identity working.
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