New Teen Trends

Please explain why you feel it Is so popular, self explanitory is not an answer.

The rebellion thing is understandable.
Hmmm, thanks nine.

"Everyone wants to be the black man, nobody wants to be the black man." Truer words never spoken. It doesn’t happen as much or as deep as it once was but it’s still happening clearly if you are smart enough to see.

Let me give people a little history lesson. Elvis sang songs created by black artists and got famous becuase he could sing like a colored boy but but wasn’t a colored boy. He died filthy rich and the original artists died in poverty. He was only doing what a long long line of white people have done in American history. Which is appropriate black clothing, music, dance moves, physical features, slang, music, art, hard work, blood sweat and tears and make them their own. Dressing like a black person and acting like a "black person" is just the right amount of danger and sexiness, they are the diluted form. A black person in a white person’s body.

I know I’m sounding like an Afrocentric loony but listen, anyone with half a brain can see this trend.
EXAMPLES:
~White people walking around with locs (which is fine) but they don’t even ackowledge they want them becuase black people made them cool and it’s a Nubian invention. "Dreadlocks orginated in the bible, in Germany, on cavemen." I feel bad for the people dumb enough to say that nonsense to me becuase I set them straight right quick. Africa is being erased from history.
~When black people create slang and EVERY TIME it trickles down into white suburbia where white surburban kids with no culture of their own cling to it and drain it dry of any creativity. Badokadonk even crept into country music.
etc and so forth.

It’s like the German SS in the death camps with the women Jews. They denounced them with one hand and lusted after them with another. It’s twisted. It’s the duality of persecution that bothers me. It also happened in Ancient Rome. The Roman women of yore who had Celtic and Germanic slaves and called them barbarians but yearned for blond wigs made out of their hair. Let me repeat that: the rich higher race Roman women treated the faired haired slaves like dirt but they wanted a part of their body and beauty.
Sound familiar to anyone?

So it’s NOT always been black people. When you are the hated and the persecuted in society you are mysterious and dangerous and secretly your persecuter wants to BE you. Throughout history the rich have mimicked the poor becuase the poor are inevitably more creative, the kings have plagiarized the peasants, the slave masters have wanted the slaves, the "superior" races have looked to the "inferior" races for inspiration. And unfortunately right now Black people are the ones that are imitated with little to no appreciation. Little white surburban clones latch onto the danger of acting like black people.

Yes Liam is quite popular. Very nice name.