Colorful weave.  Long, acrylic nails.  Gold teeth.  Colorful cars with spinning rims.  Designs cut into a haircut. Dilapidated houses.  Dirty streets.  High crime.  Poor people. Over-crowded neighborhoods.  When you look at everything I’ve listed, what words come to mind?  When I asked a friend of mine about phrases similar to the ones I’ve listed, he instantly said that those terms are associated with being GHETTO, HOOD and/or RATCHET.  Some might say those descriptions are what we’d associate with someone who is black or African-American, but why?