" Respectability politics have become de facto rules for marginalized people to follow in order to be respected in main stream culture but they reflect antiquated ideals set up by white supremacy. The depiction of the cultures that black Americans create in low-income areas like the hood as ghetto or ratchet has very little to do with any real interest in their success, and everything to do with creating a series of hoops and obstacles to arbitrarily impede the progress of those with the fewest resources. "

― Mikki Kendall , Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot