[lbo-talk] Re:Weird rich people question

joanna bujes joanna.bujes at sun.com
Thu May 22 16:12:43 PDT 2003


At 02:37 PM 05/22/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Yes, Chris, there is just such an institution here in
>the United States. It's called the Uhuru Movement and
>it allows upper class white kids to dress and talk
>like
>poor black people.

Nothing unusual though. The young always seem to adopt the fashion of the disenfranchised. My little sister went to a very exclusive private school in LA (with Cary Grant's daughter) and in the late seventies-early eighties, the fashion du jour was to dress up like homeless "bag" people. My parents were horrified. They had predicted that she would "turn her nose up at them" if she went to this hoity toity school and instead she was dressing like a bum. They could not figure it out.

Joanna



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