What’s with all the White Chicks and Gang Signs?

I’ve been trying to broaden my horizons a bit lately, by reading some of the other Blog material on the internet. There’s a plethora of interesting articles and photo and video Post-its. That’s really the only way to describe them. Most of it is about as interesting and memorable as a trainwreck, and it can become a little overwhelming at times – if Virginia Woolf were still around, she’d probably be sticking a needle in her head, or snorting a line of something by now and Sylvia Plath would have her head inside a bell-jar again for sure.

I gather from reading a few of the blogs, and from viewing the following real video that one of the latest trends in city chic is white girls flashing all manner of gang-signs.

In real life the gang-signs mean something to the members, by signifying friend or foe, and often result in a drive-by shooting or at the very least a high-speed chase down the 605 freeway. I don’t know how or when this new phenomenon first caught on in the East, but it’s already gotten into the mainstream, and even been attempted in some of the more fashionable places in New York.

~ by dobee on November 21, 2007.