Enough with the ghetto talk

Harold is tired of the overuse of "ghetto" as an adjective:

... Now groups that are outside of hip-hop, but still consume it ravenously, (i.e. uppity black folk, Asians, and whites), in effort to "be down," chime in using it as means to say "inferior," "inappropriate," "unacceptable," "uncouth," and a host of other negatives. Often they employ it to describe stuff they do too, like showing up late to work, but laughingly assign to riff-raff, like the "lower economic blacks" Bill Cosby was talking about. The word has been co-opted and morphed to the point that ghetto people now use it to distinguish themselves from one another. But what else is new? Definitely not black folks trying to pick and sort themselves for approval by YT, or the mainstream seizing something marginalized blacks conceived to make light of their situation and utilizing it against them. ...