We Use Words like Mackadocious

Words like mackadocious, said by white kids, phrases like shizzle my nizzle, said by white kids is funny. But I don't think the point is to laugh, the point is to find out why the hilarity ensues when I wear extra baggy jeans with a tall-tee and attempt to ghost ride the whip. What? I'm down! The author of "We Use Words like Mackadocious" has the same concerns. The essay walks us through his life growing up seeing black people as superior to him, and his white skin. His views of black people are different than what most people experience, because I didn't attend a rich, private elementary school in Chicago I had contact with maybe one black child, and he was completely white-washed. So, if anything, my perception wasn't of superiority, it was of rarity. The author attempted to become a part of the black community, and for the large part, was accepted. But he was still "that white kid," the anomaly. That's because it's more than the color of the skin, the way they dress and the music listened to. Black culture emerges as a swagger that is a result of dealing with enormous problems that a white suburban kid could never fathom, could never imagine, and couldn't deal with. That is where the swagger comes from. So when Ezra Koenig asks if rap is hereditary I would mostly say no, it just so unfortunately happens that many African-Americans have to deal with the types of problems that create this gangster subculture that many rap stars come out.
However, the few successful white rap stars who have had to deal with these same problems are still famous, and sometimes ridiculed for being white and trying to fit in with the rap, gangster culture. Rappers like Eminem are known primarily for being the most famous white rapper, rather than just being a talented rapper.
But it also works the other way around, the high school I went to exposed me to much more diversity, and many more "gangster" folks that I assumed lived in the surrounding not so nice neighborhoods. However, I would see these kids in their baggy clothes walking around my affluent city and I would think, "what a poser." These african-american teens tried to look like they were poor by buying clothes that fit that look, but really they had more than enough money to buy clothes that would have fit them.
For them to use words like mackadocious made no sense, they didn't emerge from a culture that gave them the same swagger mentioned in the essay, and so I guess whites aren't the only ones trying to emulate this cool culture. I have a feeling the black kids I knew would be rejected just as much as I would be trying to walk around the bad parts of Chicago.