1. Do African-Americans "talk like hoodlums" because that's how hoodlums talk or is that your image of how hoodlums talk? Overall wondering if words like hoodlum, thug, and ghetto are reserved exclusively for black people.

2. Are you assuming all or most black people speak this way and/or can't speak 'properly' in proper circumstances? Do you draw the same conclusions for the vernacular of (poor) southern whites?

3. '[I]ntegrate', 'culture', and 'Uncle Tom' have real historical significance. Do African-American's simply need to speak the standard white American dialect to 'get ahead in life' or do they need to also act white? Perhaps look white?

In the recent past, not having a real education and not wearing a suit everyday severely limited your economic opportunity. Entrepreneurship in the form of "hacker culture" changed that. I think the same can happen with entrepreneurship in the form of "black culture" or any culture.

Please question assumptions, second-guess terms like hoodlum not to be politically correct but to be accurate, and know history explains a lot about why society is how it is, anthropology does too.