Last year we did a story called Pull Your Pants Up regarding a new policy at Morehouse College in Atlanta prohibiting the strange style of sagging pants. Now a New York state politician is joining the cause.
State Sen. Eric Adams has announced plans to post six billboards around Brooklyn targeting the pants-sagging trend popular with many young men. The billboards, which will hang on busy streets, feature two young men wearing low-hanging pants above the phrase, “Raise your pants, raise your image.” Adams isn’t looking to sign a law against below-the-belt wear, but he hopes to get a conversation started. “It’s part of a larger campaign … to tell our young people and our community as a whole, we are better than this,” Adams said. He reminded that the sagging trend originated from prison culture, where prisoners pants sagged accidentally for safety reasons, because they were not given belts to hold them up. As a former New York police captain, Adams said “I policed all over the city. … The first indicator of whether a young person was in trouble was the way they dressed.”
Adams is not alone in his dislike for the prison-culture-induced pants sagging phenomenon. In Hampton, Virginia, 17-year-old Kecoughtan High School Class President Rasheed Parker just launched a campaign proclaiming, “Your swag is as low as your sag,” after witnessing the growing trend at his high school. “With the job market now, you’ve got to be really competitive,” Parker said. “If there’s one guy looking nice and one guy sagging his pants, they’re going to hire the guy looking nice.”
But not every young person is sold. Minnesota high school student Casey Peterson, 17, said, “I think schools should let kids wear what they want. They should have a right to express themselves.”
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
I commend the efforts of those who are seriously concerned about this continously disturbing trend found predominately within Black-America across this country.However, IMO, the behavior itself speaks to yet MORE concrete evidence that, collectively, Black America is in a state of Crisis!The very notion held among mostly young Black-American males that it's somehow "cool" to walk around with one's "azz" literally hanging out for all the world to see_a well-known behavior of prison culture_confirms that "WE" (Black-America) are on the road to utter destruction because "WE" have FALIED to "CHECK" ourselves as a people! Roughly 70% of ALL ablck babies are now born out of wedlock to teenage GIRLS impregnated by teenage BOYS (many of them THUGS, gangbangers, drug dealers and addicts) haveing NO real sense of themselves as human-beings. Too many BLACK babies are born into highly dysfunctional_and quite frankly_VIOLENT families and "dream-killing" communities with little to NO contact… Read more »