Another - huh is this racist???

[Evelight]

Said by 60 yr old white male school staff to 14 yr old white upper mc boy:

"Take your hoodie down, it's against the dress code - you'll grow up to become a rapper".

???!!!

Not sure why you are linking racism to 'class'

Evelight, we are 6 pages in so do you still think the comment was racist?

Who says teenagers don't speak about people in terms of class? Mine do

Mine don't.

My DCs age range: 6 -28. None of them refer to a class system.

Class is not given a thought here either.

Class is just a made up social construct. Puts us in our place

I have actually never heard anyone referred to as upper middle class. Maybe I move in the wrong circles.
What exactly alerted you to the fact that he was upper, op? And your dd needed your annual income for a school assignment?
Was this so she qualified for her upper middle class badge too?

They say in America it is race & in Britain it is class. This thread would appear to confirm this.

"here are the top images of my google image search for "top rappers" (when I googled rap music, it gave images of logos saying "RAP MUSIC")

Yeah, google image search vs a lifelong interest in the genre. OK then.

So breaking the joke down he's either saying the wearing of a hoodie will turn you into a rapper because hoodies are synonymous with rap music OR impliedly the wearing of a hoodie will turn you into a black man because black men are associated with rap and black rappers 'traditionally' wear hoodies.

Those who hear the latter probably conclude it is a racist comment. But given the potential offence of calling someone racist I'd want a bit more than that evidence to go on.

As a complete aside if I had to pick a 'group' most associated with hoodies then (apart from a ladies netball squad perhaps) I'd go for skateboarding teenage boys. Not rappers.

Er....it was a lighthearted way of telling the kid to follow the dress code. I've made lots of similar comments - usually about ear/headphones & DJ school.

I didn't choose the thug life...mummy and daddy chose it for me. 😎

Not racist. Many rappers are white, latino or asian.
Many are sexist cunts, also.

It's hardly racist OP! He was commenting on his shit fashion sense!

"Take your hoodie down, it's against the dress code - you'll grow up to become a rapper".

Eminem? Or did he culturally identify as Black American and I missed him coming out?

Straight Outta Compton Cheshire!

I'd think lots of youngsters would bloody love to be a talented rapper, earn the big bucks and get adulation etc. Sounds like it was meant in a jokey way, doesn't sound racist to me. Eminem probably being the most well known rapper of his generation and is a white male.