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Arkansas College Accused Of Racism For Trying To Ban Saggy Pants
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| Tue, August 18, 2015
| By Brendan Kelly,
Posted on 08/19/2015 12:36:25 PM PDT by bob_denard
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To: bob_denard
These saggy pants and before that laceless shoes were adoptions of prison culture in “the hood”.
In prison they take you belt and shoe laces away and this look was emulated by inner city youths.
I think laceless shoes came first and cops loved it because the idiots would run and their shoes would fall off. Adidas later on produced sneakers that looked laceless but had inner stretch bands to help keep the shoes on.
And I am sure cops love the current saggy pants trend too for all the times the running perps pants have fallen down and allowed for ease of capture.
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08/19/2015 3:50:21 PM PDT
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Trumpinator
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To: mumblypeg
it was a way of expressing solidarity with the incarcerated brothers. Belts arent allowed in prison. They can be used as weapons, or to commit suicide.You're probably right. That is what nearly all sources on the internet say.
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08/19/2015 4:27:28 PM PDT
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To: bob_denard
seem like an attempt to suppress black culture. I'm sick to death of "black culture." "Black culture" doesn't need to be suppressed. It needs to be prosecuted. Extinguished. Eliminated. It's the bane of civilization and a blight on America.
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08/19/2015 6:49:39 PM PDT
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LouAvul
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To: mumblypeg
I always heard it was a way of expressing solidarity with the incarcerated brothers. Belts arent allowed in prison. They can be used as weapons, or to commit suicide. It was not "solidarity" so much as little kids in the hood looking up at bigger kids in jail and emulating them. The shoelace-less sneaker is also born from this prison fashion. The inmates probably are released off the prison bus without a belt or shoelaces on their sneakers so they walk around like that and it shows they did time which imparts on them a kind of "street cred".
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08/20/2015 11:54:19 AM PDT
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