As someone older than the age of 40, I can sympathize with Mayor Phil Best (pictured above) of Dublin, Ga. The sight of young brothers walking around with their pants falling off their behinds makes me cringe.
I'm not sure why. There are plenty of terrible fashion statements being made out there by big-money celebrities on red carpets and mall-rat wannabes around the block.
But there is something about those falling pants and the exposed boxers that scream ignorance.
Even still, I question Mayor Best's decision of making saggin' an indecent exposure crime that could get violators a fine of $200.
Tweet The law would prohibit the wearing of pants or skirts more than three inches below the top of the hips, exposing the skin or undergarments.
Police will be left to enforce the law, so are they supposed to run around high school parking lots with tape measures in hand looking for violators of the three-inch rule?
I'm sure city officials hope that a simple warning for kids to pull up their pants will be sufficient, but we all know that there will be at least one kid (and likely more) who will push the law to its constitutional breaking point by getting arrested and fighting the ticket in court.
And he may win.
It's hard to see how the law would stand up to judicial scrutiny. Can't you just see the ACLU jumping in with its high-priced lawyers, defending a kids right to sag? Give me a break.
Some people are already complaining that the law will be used to target young black males. Well, a quick visit to just about any mall will tell you that young white males model just about everything they see from their black counterparts, including saggin'. So it's up to the community to make sure that young black boys aren't the only ones getting pinched for this infraction.
I'm not sure how this will turn out on the streets or in the courts, but I applaud Mayor Best for at least attempting to get the pants of young boys back where they belong -- on their behinds.
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"Saggin" didn't just start, youngsters have been doin this since I was kid. It was appalling to some back then as it is today, but a law was not necessary. Kids grow-up and do different things. If every time "we" found something to be appalling, we passed a law, we would no longer be the home of the free! People have a right to both say and do things that "some" may find offensive in this country! This is what makes us "AMERICANS!!
Wow since you expressed yourself on the sagging. Now lets hear you loud and clear on going into the backwoods and the areas and go get the KKK white sheet wearing mofo's in jail too, lets not stop at just sagging lets get all the un ethical and racist attire off the streets !
Wearing one's pants to the extent it exposes their nasty underwear, ammounts to nothing less than indecent exposure. It's about time. I recently observed a white man (not child), get arrested at the mall for refusing to pull his sagged pants up. I was extatic and enjoyed watching the police spray him with pepperspray as he resisted arrest :-)
THE POLLS ARE A LIE. THE POLLS ARE SAYING THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S NUMBERS ARE SLIPPING.
YEAH RIGHT. I HAVE NOT LOST SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA AND NO ONE THAT I KNOW WHO VOTED FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS LOST THEIR SUPPORT OF HIM.
JUST LIKE ERIC IS THE FIRST PERSON ALWAYS POSTING ON BLACK VOICES, PEOPLE LIKE ERIC ARE THE FIRST AND ONLY ONES ANSWERING THOSE POLLS.
THAT'S THEIR JOB TO ANSWER THE POLLS. THE LYING REPUBLICANS JUST LIKE ERIC AND THE REST OF THEM THAT ARE ON BLACK VOICES POSTING 24 HOURS A DAY ARE ANSWERING THE POLLS IN WHICH THE MEDIA IS REPORTING THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S NUMBERS ARE SLIPPING.
LET'S MAKE SURE WE ALL MAKE IT TO THE POLLS IN NOVEMBER.
LET'S CONTINUE TO LET PRESIDENT OBAMA KNOW THAT WE APPROVE OF THE JOB HE IS DOING.
THE REPUBLICANS ARE DESPERATELY TRYING TO TAKE SEATS AWAY FROM THE DEMOCRACTS.
PRESIDENT OBAMA CAN'T GET THINGS DONE WITHOUT THE HELP OF THE DEMOCRACTS. THE REPUBLICANS HAVE ALREADY SHOWN THEIR RACIST A$$ES. THEY ARE THE PARTY OF "NO". SO WHY IN THE HELL WOULD ANYONE VOTE FOR A PARTY THAT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING TO HELP AMERICAN PEOPLE?
VOTE IN NOVEMBER - I DON'T HAVE ALZHEIMER'S I REMEMBER THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.
There has never been a style of dress that's lasted as long as sagging pants! 20 years!! Can you imagine a girl or guy wearing the same outfit today that they wore in 1990? What it tell me is that young people have lost the creativity we had when we were their age. Back in my day the music and style of dress changed every other year. 20 years of sagging pants is unreal! And stupid looking!
Listen up black people. I myself am not a fan of sagging pants, but beware today its sagging pants tomorrow it will be how you talk, etc. etc. etc. This is how it starts. They are slowly trying to chip away our CIVIL RIGHTS. Don't be fooled by this ploy. Please people keep your guard up. Who are we to tell someone how to dress? Man this is some BS. Pay attention, you see they want to do away with parts of the 14th Amendment.
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By: Eric on 9/07/2010 4:04PM
Finally! A voice of reason emerges! Now, we need a national law
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By: HoneyKone on 9/07/2010 10:17PM
I agree. Let's be sure to get all of 'em. I was at the mall just today and a teenage white male was sagging all over the place. It was DISGUSTING!
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By: CuriousMind on 9/08/2010 1:10AM
WOW...if this were a blog about black women, we'd be called everything but a child of God and the names we were born with!
I KNEW YOU WERE GAY!!
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By: clifton ford on 9/08/2010 9:22AM
"Saggin" didn't just start, youngsters have been doin this since I was kid. It was appalling to some back then as it is today, but a law was not necessary. Kids grow-up and do different things. If every time "we" found something to be appalling, we passed a law, we would no longer be the home of the free! People have a right to both say and do things that "some" may find offensive in this country! This is what makes us "AMERICANS!!
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By: djkut on 9/08/2010 11:45AM
Wow since you expressed yourself on the sagging. Now lets hear you loud and clear on going into the backwoods and the areas and go get the KKK white sheet wearing mofo's in jail too, lets not stop at just sagging lets get all the un ethical and racist attire off the streets !
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By: The Truth on 9/08/2010 12:12PM
Wearing one's pants to the extent it exposes their nasty underwear, ammounts to nothing less than indecent exposure.
It's about time.
I recently observed a white man (not child), get arrested at the mall for refusing to pull his sagged pants up. I was extatic and enjoyed watching the police spray him with pepperspray as he resisted arrest :-)
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By: Mimi on 9/08/2010 1:14PM
DECISION 2010
THE POLLS ARE A LIE. THE POLLS ARE SAYING THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S NUMBERS ARE SLIPPING.
YEAH RIGHT. I HAVE NOT LOST SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA AND NO ONE THAT I KNOW WHO VOTED FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS LOST THEIR SUPPORT OF HIM.
JUST LIKE ERIC IS THE FIRST PERSON ALWAYS POSTING ON BLACK VOICES, PEOPLE LIKE ERIC ARE THE FIRST AND ONLY ONES ANSWERING THOSE POLLS.
THAT'S THEIR JOB TO ANSWER THE POLLS. THE LYING REPUBLICANS JUST LIKE ERIC AND THE REST OF THEM THAT ARE ON BLACK VOICES POSTING 24 HOURS A DAY ARE ANSWERING THE POLLS IN WHICH THE MEDIA IS REPORTING THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S NUMBERS ARE SLIPPING.
LET'S MAKE SURE WE ALL MAKE IT TO THE POLLS IN NOVEMBER.
LET'S CONTINUE TO LET PRESIDENT OBAMA KNOW THAT WE APPROVE OF THE JOB HE IS DOING.
THE REPUBLICANS ARE DESPERATELY TRYING TO TAKE SEATS AWAY FROM THE DEMOCRACTS.
PRESIDENT OBAMA CAN'T GET THINGS DONE WITHOUT THE HELP OF THE DEMOCRACTS. THE REPUBLICANS HAVE ALREADY SHOWN THEIR RACIST A$$ES. THEY ARE THE PARTY OF "NO". SO WHY IN THE HELL WOULD ANYONE VOTE FOR A PARTY THAT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING TO HELP AMERICAN PEOPLE?
VOTE IN NOVEMBER - I DON'T HAVE ALZHEIMER'S I REMEMBER THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.
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By: bway on 9/08/2010 3:44PM
There has never been a style of dress that's lasted as long as sagging pants! 20 years!!
Can you imagine a girl or guy wearing the same outfit today that they wore in 1990?
What it tell me is that young people have lost the creativity we had when we were their age.
Back in my day the music and style of dress changed every other year.
20 years of sagging pants is unreal! And stupid looking!
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By: Gail on 9/08/2010 8:24PM
DAMN ERIC, YO WHITE ASS or BLACK SELF-HATIN' ASS...WHATEVER YOU ARE....IS THE FIRST ONE ON HERE!!!
I DON'T AGREE WITH YOU ON MOST THINGS, BUT THIS RIGHT HERE...I AM IN TOTAL AGREEMENT!!!.....
MAKE THIS A NATIONAL LAW!!!!!
I HATE SEEING THEIR NASTY DRAWS!!!!
WHO ARE THEY "STYLING" FOR?????
SURE CAN'T BE FOR THE YOUNG SISTAS...
THEY'RE JUST A BUNCH OF GAY BOYS WALKING AROUND SHOWING THEIR FUNKY ASSES!!!!
I BET IF THEY STARTED GETTING ARRESTED OR CITED, THEY WOULD STOP!!!!
INDECENT EXPOSURE?????....OH HELL YEAH!!!!!!
PULL YO' PANTS UP!!!!!!!...OR GET ARRESTED OR GET A TICKET!!!..OR BOTH!!!!!
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By: boldbigman on 9/08/2010 11:45PM
Listen up black people. I myself am not a fan of sagging pants, but beware today its sagging pants tomorrow it will be how you talk, etc. etc. etc. This is how it starts. They are slowly trying to chip away our CIVIL RIGHTS. Don't be fooled by this ploy. Please people keep your guard up. Who are we to tell someone how to dress? Man this is some BS. Pay attention, you see they want to do away with parts of the 14th Amendment.
Report This