Legislation now wants to control our wardrobe?
In Atlanta, the city council is considering an amendment to ban baggy pants. They feel that this type of fashion sense is distasteful as it shows off the undergarments of many men. Also…they claim to be looking out for the physical health of these patrons… ‘ “It kind of doesn’t make sense. It is hard for people to walk,” Martin said.’
I made a new category for this post; “Just Plain Ridiculous,” and for good reason. I read this news feed online, and almost shit myself senseless. Since when has it become the right of our government to control how I want to wear my pants. What if I choose not to wear any pants at all? Are they gonna ban the right to show off legs? I don’t understand how this is any different then just wearing a plain bathing suit. At least pants cover up the legs, who cares if they are low? It’s not like he has nothing else underneath it!
The best part of this story is the racial profiling. I was pretty pissed at the way the Atlanta city council put some of their points, as it was a blatant method to complain about the dress of certain ethnic groups.
“Atlanta City Councilman C.T. Martin said he’s tired of seeing kids and young black men wearing their pants down around their knees.”
Who the hell said it was only the black race wearing their pants that low? Obviously this bimbo has a ton to learn about becoming more politically correct before he can start worrying about how low a pair of pants are.
If I choose to wear my pants at my knees, then so be it. I don’t want some proper and formal jerk next to me to start telling me how to wear my clothes. Fashion is a matter of opinion and a depiction of your image. Many people find comfort in what they wear, no matter how they wear it and it is their own expression of self. No one should ever be told how to dress because that will lead into things like: how to speak, how to act, how to walk, how to eat…honestly, moving in this direction is moving a step backwards towards slavery…something we fought so hard to overcome.
I declare tomorrow “National Sag Your Pants Day To Piss off W.A.S.P’s”
So give yourself a nice breeze downstairs, regardless if you are man or women, and pull your pants a little lower tomorrow, just for those people in Atlanta who face hardships we don’t.
Do it. (All the cool people are)
Reader's Comments
Why does everyone have to make a racial thing of this. Here, the vast majority of “kids /young people”, “male AND female”, “MULIT-racial” young’ns are walking around with one hand on the cellphone, and the other usually holding the pants up. I’m 50 something, and my youth wore hip hugging bellbottoms and torn jeans and toobig bib overalls, and tiedye stirts and we were obnoxious too. We all made our statement, we all did OUR OWN THING, (just like everyone else). Every generation does it. I personally think it looks just silly to walk around grabbing your pants every minute or two to keep them froom falling down. Just like my Pop thought we looked funny wearing bellbottoms that were long enough for someone half a foot taller than us. One difference I see, is that the origins of todays droopy pants is a thug thing. Coming from inmate wear that had no belts and hung low due to gravity.
Young people seem to want to emulate power images, and thugs from prisons seem to be a powerful image for them. So they wear them low to look tough. It’s hard not to make this sound racial, but I’ll bet you that if you ask the average white kid why he’s doing it,….he’s clueless. He just looks stooopit. I see young people all the time talking like they have a third grade education, and come from the ghetto. Perhaps some do. BUT the point is, everyone wants to be taken seriously,and you can’t do that when you embarrass yourself. Walk like you respect yourself, talk like you respect yourself, act like you respect yourself. Respect yourself and others will respect you. Colin Powell doesn’t walk with a swagger in his step, his pants don’t hang off his hips, and he speaks like a citizen of the world at large. Not white, not black, not even American, he speaks like a worldly, educated, respectful person,…..PERIOD. As you said, “I got stuff to complain about” too.
Respectfully yours,
Robert
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