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Comment by Jayson on March 18, 2011 at 3:30pm

Robert, you made a good point when you said "these kids are merely doing what is natural, mimicking their environment in order to survive or rather get along better." I totally agree with that. I believe a lot of time peer pressure can cause a good kid to behave badly. If you watch the video there was one lil girl 0:27 That was trying to do exactly what the rest of them were doing but you could tell it was very uncomfortable for her.

Comment by Robert Braggs III on March 17, 2011 at 2:36am

Perhaps it is a combination of factors. People are inclined to imitate what they see in their network which helps them survive so to speak. The media or television mediums merely imitate what they see in their respective network or broadcasting area and so we end up watching ourselves in a twisted kind of quasi reality. I remember when I was a kid, I went to an all white school, then suddenly when I got to junior high school that was vastly different, I'm sure my parents marked the change, because what I did was I would come home and use the house phone to call our answering service in order to leave a message, I used it like a recorder so I could practice cursing and saying the "N" word, although it sounds ridiculous I was attempting to assimilate in order to better fit in. I think this is a fitting example of what we see happening all around, who you are connected to is very important to the copy and paste effect. I'm not surprised at the videos above, these kids are merely doing what is natural, mimicking their environment in order to survive or rather get along better. The vernacular is always changing, I'm sure when I'm older the things kids will say probably would be brow raising but its that same people, just different vernacular

Comment by Kris on March 16, 2011 at 8:08pm

Jayson, I agree with your points. Thanks again for posting this. :)

Comment by Jayson on March 15, 2011 at 9:10pm

I honestly don't think BET cares either way.

Comment by Jayson on March 15, 2011 at 3:44pm

Kwan, I agree they need they a** whooped for real. I believe the parents are very responsible but BET makes me sick most of the time!!

Comment by Kris on March 15, 2011 at 3:04pm

I can't believe these girls are talking like that! Ridiculous. Their parents obviously have extremely poor parenting skills. I can barely understand half of the things coming out of their mouths, yikes. For the longest time, people have been asking BET to alter its programming because youth are very impressionable. Now we are seeing the results.