“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
- Plato

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Well, in the past that “style” has been used to conceal weapons (even sawed-off shotguns…)

You know it’s a strange coincidence, if they didn’t wear their pants so low they wouldn’t have gotten caught running away with that television set and they wouldn’t have had to go to prison, where they practice wearing their pants so low.

Exactly right Ronnie. Very few people seem to know that.

Yeah what’s another law right? that’s the problem with the Nation today. Left/right wing Fascists want to impose laws on peoples personal choices. Just because you don’t agree with there “dress style.” Of course it’s idiotic, and highly ignorant, but freedom is a bittersweet pill. Try thinking outside the box, besides wanting to impose laws to get your way with force and guns.

The Droopy pant fad comes from Incarcerated prison inmates, where the state issues the inmate his nearest pant size and most of the time the pants are over sized. There are no TAILORED fits in prison.

The SHORT BALD BUZZ TYPE haircut is also a phenomenon that comes from prison.

The KIDS see this a see it as a rebellious act and therefore imitate this behavior.

Take a look at prison inmates , especially County lockups and you will see that their pants are Droopy as well.

So are these idiots exemplifying “hope,” or “change?”

I always figured it was gay code or something. Why else would someone want to show their crack to other dudes?

there is a lot of complaining about “the white man” is holding us back… no when you walk around looking like a hood and a thug expect to be thought of and treated in that like manner. I wouldn’t want you around me.

Respect your self and your community, and when you respect your self and others you can demand it.

Don’t expect society to look lightly on baggy sagging pants that is jail bait mentality and you get as good as you give.

Have pride and dignity and respect for your self and you can get it …. command it demand it in return until then stop blaming other and look in and at you

This “Style” started in prisons where guys would sag their pants to show they are available for gay sex.

It comes from the big house… Prison. The prison b!tches wear their pants low to let the other guys know they’re available. That’s the facts. Now….. any parents, teachers, friends want to tell this to those kids? They’re immitating gay inmates!

The problem is there are very few black role models that aren’t tied financially to “shaking down the man”… It would be terrific to see some black role models speak to this issue, Bill Cosby is the only name that comes to my mind, and most of the current young blacks have no idea who he is. The Black family has been decimated, no Fathers in the homes. These kids have no hope, and are destined to live a morally corrupt life. PTG

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As a Jewess in the US, I can only say that this is yet ONE MORE reason why all REAL Americans must put our 2nd Amendment FIRST! I don’t know what is worse: the trashy ghetto clothing style, or the police-state repression that it engenders.

Dear bdj, the baggy pants ‘fashon’ is based on black veneration for prison garb. In prison, when pants are issued the often don’t fit well or there is no belt to hold them up, so they are baggy. This is what Frederick Douglas’ great-grandchildren, and MLK and Rosa Parks grandchildren have chose to emulate…dressing as though they were in prison or jail.

True. It means you are the lowest of the low in prison…. not sure why you would want to use that as a fashion statement.

Anyway, using prison “fashion” shows a problem with society. It is decades of the inner city and urban culture viewing cops in a negative light and glorifying the criminal.

……….and OFCOURSE The Man gives Black History Month the shortest month !!!

Its a throwback to prison fashion.
The sagging pants denoted a person open to sex with other inmates

YOU WEAR THEM LOW SO THAT BUBA WONT HAVE TO PULL THEM DOWN VERY FAR.

Because that is where they will be soon.

This is ignorance of the blacks, and shows their upbringing. Of course, most of these kids live with only one parent that is probably working and cannot teach their child good manners and how to dress properly. I would never hire anyone, black, white, red, yellow or whatever race if he or she was dressed poorly like the saggy pants!

It’s because you are not allowed to have a belt in jail, so the ill-fitting pants they give you tend sag down below your waist. That is the look they are going for. To these people, being a thug and going in and out of jail is cool thing to be.

It comes from the prison culture where it shows you “belong” to somebody (yes, THAT way). Most kids don’t know that but they wear their pants like that because it’s affiliated with prison and they are trying to convey a hardcore persona.

AS Reagan would say, “Here we go again”. We as a Nation are falling into the hands of the Evil ones and we focus on the senselessness of drooping the pants. Looks good for a job interview. I’m afraid friends, it’s all the Old Greek Philosphy of wearing a mask. We focus on this and the Radical movements move in all around us. Hey kids pull them up! Even the fat cops can catch you easy with your drawers at your ankles. Hard to jump fences too I bet. God bless you all. God made every one of you….. Ron

Sagging your pants comes from the prison system. It was a signal to other inmates saying that you were ready and waiting for sex.
I guess there’s a lot more gay men in the black community then we thought!

Again, this is another invention that can be credited to the Black/African-American culture along with the Gatorade dump on coaches at the end of football games.

Good Lord! We must weducate our young Negroes of this terrible offense!

It started in prisons. By the way, zoot suits were a fad of the forties (WWII). Saggy drawers are a sign of tough.

Oh my! How far the American Negro has advanced in social progress! Hooray!

Sagging, as it is called, comes from rappers who took the so-called fad from a prison style. Most have no clue that it means, in prisons, that one is “available” for a physical encounter with another inmate, so to speak. Where did I get this information? I have a co-worker who used to work as a guard in a mid-size prison for quite a few years. He’s a pretty straightforward guy and thinks its funny, in a jacked up way, that this is somehow seen as a cool thing among young “inner city” types and wanna-bees…believe me or not, I don’t care…just thought I’d pass this along.

How do you solve problems with those who let their pants sag, and who obviously aren’t into problem solving themselves?

Maybe if you actually read the article you would understand why. Because black leaders are asking black children to pull up their pants as a show of respect to their own community. Would be pretty stupid to post a picture of a white kid or mexican kid when the article is clearly about blacks, now wouldn’t it?

The article is about black children and teens to pull their pants up during black history month. This has to do with blacks. So it wouldn’t make sense to have a picture of a white or hispanic person there, would it?

What a stupid comment. What planet are you from, dude?

Because whites don’t get a “white history month.”

So, they have to provide a picture of all races in baggy pants? Does this make it fair? You are such a small person!!!!

That is just an ignorant statement a waste of brain matter and time

It is not white or hispanic history month.

i don’t see white kids or hispanic kids wearing their pants hanging down.you’re nuts.

Statistically you are correct (look up “Race and Crime in the United States” on Wikipedia just for one example). You can certainly get into whether this is justified or not, but blacks make up about 13% of the general population but over 60% of the prison population. Aside from that, this mode of dress looks ridiculous.

Josue its your PC views that are killing this nation.Why is it only white guys break into houses on home security commercials? How come cardboard shooting targets only come in white guys? ECT ECT ECT ECT.

White or hispanic teens imitating degenerate black ghetto culture is a problem for the white and hispanic communities to address.

Not where I live. Why dont you try to start living in the real world and admit that blacks are the vast majority who wear their pants under their butts?
Hispanics wear too big long shorts and the white kids waer their jeans so tight that you think their heads will pop off.
The Hispanics and white kids have their pants around their waistlines for the most part.

because they started it!

it’s a black thing, so some want to join and be wiggers, so what, you want to be included in this pic?

When are we going to have white history month? Then I can wear my pants down and CBS can take a pict of my ass hanging out.

They’re addressing black kids and black history month. That’s why

Josue, you are an idiot.

Dean is exactly right. The black community is very dysfunctional and commits most of the crime. Why don’t they own up to it??

Excuse me but “most teens” do NOT wear their pants down around their thigh, just the loser kids. And loser kids come in all colors.

Josue, heres some truth, this fad orginated in the hip hop community from the artists that served time. Black artists influencing all our cultures but none so much as the black teen culture. Get the facts, get em straight, then youll be ready to change things. Dont let the truth hurt your feelings, accept it, and change it.

I’m sure there will be a similar motion during white history month….er, never mind.

Not on Staten Island, NY. Some white kids do. I saw one that did. Most do not. Maybe in El Lay. And not all black kids do either. And no, I don’t understand it at all.
i don’t understand ear hoops either….and don’t want to.

because that is what the article is about: the black community in general.

Besides, even if it was not, does not imply the photo is racist. It is simply showing the teens that actually started the trend.

Get off the race baiting craaaap

would be if it wasn’t precedent fact

Doesnt matter if your Black white or Brown,
the Gangsta mentality is the stupidity that embraces sagging pants.
Prison wear for the future criminals.

Mostly blacks..and obscenely low.

Whites and hispanics did not START the fad… blacks did. So the photo choice is valid.

i agree DOC here they come …and they will think there so gangster for it!!!Cool doggy dogggg and be sure not to talk proper WHITE english thats not cool neither.. not racist reality and beside i dont even care to be label a racist anymore for disagreeing with a horrible president or stating facts ..blacks tend to be more racist then anyone ….. they will never overcome with not fathers and idolizing rappers and drug dealers

Maybe where YOU live, but not where I live, in the Heartland of this country…rock and country kids wouldn’t be caught dead looking like that…

Are you ret@rded? No really, are you ret@rded? I would hate to go off on someone and explain how ridiculous thier statement is if they are ret@rded.

It has everything to do with black history – looking back in 10 years all these knee dragging idiots will be in prison. We can look back historically and say, “see, we knew it was going to happen”.

Blacks are like Muslims. It’s never their fault.

Profy. No, they don’t care at all. Their sense of self esteem does not come from the approval of whites, Asians, Hispanics, or even older bllacks. It comes from a tightly knit peer group, i.e., other adolescent black males. This is why the “self esteem” for black kids movement in schools did not work. They already have an outrageously high sense of self esteem, one supported by their limited peer group and not concerned with the opinions of outsiders at all.

They act like overgrown 3-year-olds.

Wow! I tried to read this post twice. My head now hurts.

“But my backpack is probably cause that I am a slave, that is, a homeless”

Wow, just wow.

Since you can afford to buy a belt, I assume you can afford to get some basic education on sentence structure, grammar, and puncuation too, right?

I really hate to post comments unrelated to the article, but this murder of the written word screamed out for intervention.

Because they can’t “afford” a belt? Go to Target and get one for 5.00! Or a piece of rope or anything that holds their pants up! They think they look like gangstas when they dress like prison inmates. So who are their role models? Prison inmates! Losers. Complete and utter losers.

1- You should have stayed in school and learned how to write complete, cogent sentences using punctuation and capitalization in order to express yourself.
2- Learn the use difference between the use of “got” and “has” such as “history have”, not got.
3- If you are homeless how do you get onto a computer to express your ignorance? Probably at a public library, where the internet is available due to funds from the public via taxes and donations forom .
4- You should also realize that some crime statistics are going down because while these “wannabes” go around holding their crotches as security blankets or their pants above their knees they cannot commit crimes since they can’t run away afterwards.
5- Get a life.

Well, boo hoo. I feel so sorry for you, NOT!

loon Much?

Just remember one thing, the kids look up to rap stars who use “trash talk” and sing about murdering women and cops. Yeah, Snoop Dog, I’m talking about you and your homies.

Quite truthfully, the police just love those low pants because the kids can’t run when the officer pulls up to talk to them. Oh, the kids try, but they usually fall flat on their faces.

One school counselor told a group of us the other day that the kids in school think it is a sign of maturity when a student (the one under discussion was a whopping 10 years old) has a parole officer. It’s considered quite the norm. Is that sad, or what?

Stupid.

Some of us were self educated. If someone wants to learn and improve their station in life, they only need look as far their local school or community library. The key to education is reading and applying what’s learned to everyday life. The public schools are not the problem so much as a lack of interest in learned by our children.

Yes, that’s what the original idea was.

99% of the blacks ruin it for the other 1% that’s OK.

Send them back to Africa.

Just imagine a week in this country without blacks.

We don’t need a black history month, maybe just a black history 2 seconds.

C’mon don’t equate reading comic books with that other stuff…plenty of adults that are well educated read comic books, good entertainment…and those savages wearing their pants beneath their belts don’t read ANYTHING. If they did they wouldn’t talk in ebonics as they do. And yeah here in NYC, young blacks rob the elderly all the time. Blacks are nothing but cowards who need to run in packs. Send all those savage beasts back to Africa in cages where they belong.

STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES. SAGGIN IS JUST STUPID.

Mike, how would you like to wake up on a planet where you were the minority? Would you still make such stupid comments about your own “absurd” people? And by the way, Caucasians may very well become a minority. Already have in some states. So chill, dude.

Then stay out of the fifth ward! I know a great many black people (who chose not to be African Americans) who are nice, charming, and caring. So take your racist comments, fold them up until they are all sharp corners, and stick ‘em where the sun doesn’t shine. Knucklehead.

THANK YOU HIP HOP CRIMINAL ENTERTAINERS FOR YOUR LEGASY TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY.

If MLK was such a flawless person, why does his family block making his FBI files public?

How about wearing the underpants on the outside? That could be the next Black fad!