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    Sckraight From The Ghetto: You Know You're Ghetto If . . .
    Sckraight From The Ghetto: You Know You're Ghetto If . . .
    Sckraight From The Ghetto: You Know You're Ghetto If . . .
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    Sckraight From The Ghetto: You Know You're Ghetto If . . .

    By Bertice Berry, Ph.D. and Joan Coker

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    Is the only art you own on your fingernails? Do you consider kool-aid one of the five food groups?

    You know you're ghetto if:
    -Turning up the heat means turning on another burner on the stove
    -You think of paneling as a home improvement
    -You use a pair of pliers to change the channel on your TV
    -You run to get pots as soon as it rains
    -Your glasses and silverware come from a gas station
    -Your weave is longer than your torso
    -You have more than ten uses for Vaseline-and one of them is shoe polish

    Ghetto is not where you live. Ghetto is not about income or social status. Ghetto is a state of mind.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    ISBN9781466857971
    Sckraight From The Ghetto: You Know You're Ghetto If . . .
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    Bertice Berry, Ph.D.

    Bertice Berry, Ph.D., is a talk-show host, comedian, and sociologist. She wrote the bestselling Sckraight from the Ghetto. She lives in New York and Los Angeles.

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      Sckraight From The Ghetto - Bertice Berry, Ph.D.

      The author and publisher have provided this e-book to you for your personal use only. You may not make this e-book publicly available in any way. Copyright infringement is against the law. If you believe the copy of this e-book you are reading infringes on the author’s copyright, please notify the publisher at: us.macmillanusa.com/piracy.

      Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Notice

      Dedication

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Webster Was Wrong

      All Up in My House

      Ghetto Grooming

      Ghetto Hair

      It’s All in a Name

      The Things We Do

      It’s All Relative and Yours Are Ghetto

      Bad Rags/Ghetto Clothes

      Stylin’ and Profilin’

      What Chu Talkin’ ’Bout

      Ghettoloquillisms

      Ghetto Gear

      So Good It’ll Make You Wanna Smack Your Mamma

      Check Out My Ride

      Ghetto Church Hallelujah Anyhow

      Ghetto Weddings

      Ghetto Funerals

      Gettin’ Your Groove On

      Ghetto Clubbing

      Ghetto Music

      God Bless the Child Whose Parents Are Ghetto

      Ghetto Games

      Gettin’ Over

      Ghetto Attraction I Like the Ghetto in You

      Ghetto Love

      Holidays

      Just Nasty

      Ghetto Pets

      Ghetto Hood

      Ghetto Outings

      Ghetto Cure-Alls

      Ghetto Test

      Praise

      Copyright

      This book is dedicated to our mothers, Beatrice and Beatrice, who taught us to never forget where we came from.

      Acknowledgments

      I’d like to acknowledge all the ghetto contributors. Special thanks to Tia Thompson and family for their years of support and for scoring 450 on the Ghetto Test, and Ericka Majors, Will Downing, and Wally Collins for their unsolicited input. Victoria Sanders, our literary agent, the winner of the white woman who gets it award, three years in a row. Caledonia Kearns for being Victoria’s voice of reason, and Diane for putting up with Victoria. The team at St. Martin’s: Jennifer Weis, my editor; Madeleine Findley; Tara Watts; Glenda Howard; Catherine Spencer; and Jamie Brickhouse for realizing the truth of the big picture. Without all of you none of this would have been possible, ’CAUSE WE ALL GHETTO!

      —Dr. Bertice Berry

      For my mother, Bebe Ross Coker, and father, Lawrence Coker, Jr., for continued encouragement, love, and support in all that I do. My sisters, Laurie, Julie, and Ayesha for impeccable wit, love, laughter, and faith. To all of my family—thanx for wonderful memories. To Dr. Kim A. Brittingham and family, the crew from Wilmington, Delaware, and Tuskegee Institute University family—Ya know ya ghetto—and I love it! A very special thanx to the Department of Otolaryngology for allowing me this time, and for its continued support, and the entire King/Drew Medical Center family in Los Angeles. Victoria Sanders—thank you for creating this opportunity. Coauthor Dr. Bertice Berry—this was truly a blast from our past.

      —Joan Coker, M.D.

      Introduction

      According to Webster’s Dictionary, the word ghetto was originally defined as a section to which Jews were formerly restricted. Over

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