Agree. I was watching the local news last night and they had a story on one of the high school basketball teams going to State (or something like that). They sent a news crew out to the high school rally and ended up interviewing a few of the kids. It was a mixed-race bunch--hispanic, white, native american, etc., but all the kids they interviewed spoke in 'gangsta', or whatever it's called--MTVSpeak, maybe. "Is like this, no whad ahm sayin'? We gonna do dis, we gonna be on top, no whad ahm sayin', yo?".
I call it "ghetto talk", but "gansta speak" sounds better. If my daughter wanted to marry a guy who came in with, "Yo, homey, w'as up?" he'd find his butt out the door. But an intelligent, charming, and (most of all) NICE young man I would give a chance no matter what color. Thankfully, I don't have to worry about that for at least another ten years or more.