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Black Community Cries Racism Over New ‘Saggy Pants’ Ban
American news ^ | 8/23/14

Posted on 08/23/2014 8:03:04 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

Recently, states and communities have started to ban “saggy pants,” requiring those with their pants too low to pay a fine for indecency. The latest city to support the ban is Pikeville, Tennessee. If residents are caught sagging, they will be charged a $25 fine.

The ban has raised questions over whether or not the government has the right to institute laws that regulate someone’s fashion choices. There are also doubts as to whether police will take the time to enforce the law.

“All I know is we just don’t want them running around half-naked on our streets,” Pikeville Mayor Phil Cagle told the Times Free Press. “That’s the bottom line.”

The ordinance was unanimously approved in the city, and anyone with pants hanging ‘more than three inches below the top of the hips’ will be forced to pay the fine.

While some argue that the law is racist, officials claim that health concerns are top of mind as well.

What do you think of the new law?


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; pikeville; prisonsex; punks; saggypants
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To: MeshugeMikey
i don't know, i've seen-em wear little kids pants from just above the knees down...
21 posted on 08/23/2014 9:01:01 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Impala64ssa

Call them what they are, prison pants.


22 posted on 08/23/2014 9:02:51 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Chode

scarey SCAREY times...these!


23 posted on 08/23/2014 9:03:24 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: Impala64ssa

“That’s the bottom line.”

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/howawd.wav


24 posted on 08/23/2014 9:07:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Chode


25 posted on 08/23/2014 9:10:51 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Democrats love poor blacks - that's why they keep them on the Plantation)
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To: Impala64ssa

it’s not racist if it applies to everybody


26 posted on 08/23/2014 9:11:00 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Impala64ssa

What...not everyone in the black community likes seeing pants on the ground

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMwhl4IrPNc


27 posted on 08/23/2014 9:11:09 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Chode

This is the reason why Lincoln is buried in a steel cage under three tons of concrete, so no one can dig him up and shoot him again.


28 posted on 08/23/2014 9:17:31 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: rovenstinez

U dont think they want a job do u ? If they dont dress appropriatly put them in jail.


29 posted on 08/23/2014 9:20:56 PM PDT by Carry me back
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To: Iron Munro
filthy disease ridden queers...
30 posted on 08/23/2014 9:22:42 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Rome2000
LOL!
31 posted on 08/23/2014 9:23:14 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: RginTN
not everyone in the black community likes seeing pants on the ground

LOL. This guy agrees with that guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNhsfVSFEXg

And, sitting at the barber shop with my sons once, we saw the barber throw out a kid for walking in wearing his pants down.

This seems to be a younger generation fad.

32 posted on 08/23/2014 9:39:12 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Impala64ssa

Glad that you brought this point up.


33 posted on 08/23/2014 9:48:50 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: Impala64ssa

Idiots but not in a niggerly way..


34 posted on 08/23/2014 9:49:41 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Chode

Damn Chode.....to funny!


35 posted on 08/23/2014 10:03:51 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: rovenstinez

“People need to dress as to who they see themselves to be. If they want to dress like this, it will be hard for them to find a job. We need a few things to laugh at, and I’d like to laugh and mock this wise group that lets their buns show. Leave them alone. Let them be themselves.”

I simply can’t believe a thinking human being could write what you did! Sure hope you don’t vote.


36 posted on 08/23/2014 10:28:16 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Impala64ssa

I kinda hate to see this law enacted.

Saggy pants are so funny.

I once watched an employee at McDonalds take boxes to the dumpster out in back of the store.

It took him FOREVER, as he had to stop every few steps to pull up his pants. He was shufflin’.

I’m amazed he was employed, but figured the manager was Negroe and thought more of skin color than competance.

It was a hoot to watch.

(By the way, I was watching from the truck while eating a hamburger from the joint next door before going to work on a rehab job.)


37 posted on 08/23/2014 10:45:42 PM PDT by Mortrey (Kenites occupy the White House)
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To: Impala64ssa

We’ll be coming after their big, stupid wheels next.


38 posted on 08/23/2014 10:59:26 PM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: Impala64ssa

i say local communities can determine what indecent exposure is.

regardless what color anyone is. decency standards apply across the board.

there’s a lot of stupid white people trying to dress like idiots thug gangstas too.


39 posted on 08/23/2014 11:21:27 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: RginTN

that’s what should be yelled whenever we see these diaper boys.

Pants on the ground!


40 posted on 08/23/2014 11:25:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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