If you read my previous blogs you know that I am not a fan of ratchetness, but this Youtube video nails it right on the head.
Many of you know the infamous movie Mean Girls where a white girl from Africa is thrown into a social hierarchy of a new high school. This video takes on the flip side. What if the main character was dumped in the middle of Compton, a predominately black neighborhood?
Yes, this is making fun of outrageous stereotypes of hood culture or as some like to deem it, “black culture”, however, I find that it is trying so hard to make it look ridiculous and funny that the offensiveness is dampened.
In the original Mean Girls I distinctly remember one of the cliques being introduced as the “Unfriendly Black People. I cringed, snorted, and laughed because I personally went to a mostly white school and many of the non-white students spoke about how intimidating the “black clique” was but, I digress. Though this isn’t a movie, I feel like this evens out the playing field. We got to see the ridiculousness of a majority white or so-called “normal” school and now we see another side.
Note: This is NOT the other side. There ARE majority black, Hispanic, what-have-you schools that are very much like majority white schools they are are just not prevalent in mainstream media.
There is a part of me that wishes this were made into a movie for the sake of making everyone laugh, but when I ponder on it, I am glad it isn’t. As funny as it is, I am tired of the media, Hollywood, etc., perpetuating the same stereotypes with nothing to provide the contrary. Yes, it would be funny, but too many people think that is just how all black people are. Their only exposure to black culture and things related to blacks in this country is what they see on the internet, on TV, or in movies. Those that don’t fit the stereotypes are deemed “exceptions” when they are not. We are getting better, but we ain’t there yet. It isn’t the media’s fault either. They are giving us what we are comfortable with, what we expect, what we think is normal or commonly occurring.
In all seriousness I couldn’t stand watching two hours of this hilarious foolishness. After the first fifteen minutes or so I would just want it all to stop, haha. Overall, this was a great laugh and I really enjoyed it. Props to the maker!