Posted on 09/27/2007 6:12:14 PM PDT by Coleus
'cause the Silky Pony just said they will all end up dead or in prision?
If I’m wrong somebody please correct me, but the vast majority of young men who I’ve seen dress this way are black.
I used to see quite a few redneck boys who dressed like that, but not so much in the last couple of years.
Hopefully these kids are finally seeing just how stupid looking this fad really is.
At the school where I used to work it is almost exclusively the black boys who dress like this.
As a matter of fact, I can’t recall ever seeing a boy of another race dressing in that manner there.
The author is only half correct. It started in the prisons as a sign that one was willing to be another's "jail-house girlfriend", to put it nicely. Now blacks use it as a symbol of being one of the "niggas" (never confuse this term with the sound alike term ending in "er" lest you be shot). "Saggin" spelled backwards is "niggas".
There are now like 7 out of 10 black kids without Dads. This is their #1 problem. No Dads = chaos and dead end streets.
Coming soon: trousers with the waistband just underneath your armpits.
Hope this fine lady is black. Otherwise, she’d better be ready for the “racist” tarbrush. And if she is black, she’d better be ready to be “cosbyised” by her own race. Sad state of affairs in America’s dominant black culture. But, only they can clean it up ... if they ever want to.
At 61, I resemble (resent) that!!! LOL!
Stupid fad, sure. But do we really want the government to tell us what we can’t wear? Or how we wear it?
Seems to me inmates often wear jumpsuits or low-quality trousers with elastic waistbands or similar.
I had always heard an alternative explanation for the baggy pants thing:
-kids from poor families would often be given older brother's pants to wear as hand-me-down. Often such pants were too big.
-such kids correlate significantly with the kids who become "gangstas"
-thus, the baggy-pants look became identified with "gangstas", to the point where
-rappers began dressing like that intentionally so they would look the part, and eventually,
-rich white kids would intentionally buy pants like that.
To me this is a much more convincing explanation. It also seems to fit better with where fads like this tend to come from. What was once the shameful embarrassing predicament of a poor kid became the mark of coolness and strength.
Excellent article.
The problem is precisely that it is indeed an expression of their culture. The culture itself needs to be rejected, not just this particular expression of it.
I've tried to imagine what Frederick Douglass or Harriet Tubman would have to say about modern black gangsta culture. But I can't post it, as I'm afraid it would not meet FR language standards.
And I will bet you look just adorable. LOL
Depends on where you live and when.
Years ago, this was also a fad with white kids from the suburbs, but eventually it phased out with most of them but not all, however, among african americans it doesn't seem to have faded out as much.
That said, I do kind of chuckle that this is a law that on the surface is inherently aimed at african americans, is obviously targeting them, and ironically, isn't going to be attacked by any african american civil rights group or leaders.
You do have to kind of see the irony here.
I didn’t like the title of the article. Then I read it and really liked what she had to say about a rejection of the prison mentality and instilling the proper expectations and code of behavior for young people.
I believe the saggy pants trend was actually a conspiracy by da man—it’s hard to run from the law when your pants are falling down to your ankles and you’re trying to keep them up.
A very sad irony.
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