Thursday, April 1, 2010
State senator to youth: "Raise your pants"
From the Village Voice:
State Senator Eric Adams of Brooklyn really wants young people in Brooklyn to pull their pants up, and he's putting up billboards to tell them so. On Monday, billboards with pictures of models in ultra-low-riding jeans reading, "We are better than this! Stop the sag! Raise your pants, raise your image!" will be going up in 6 locations in Brooklyn. Adams says the 22-foot-tall billboards were paid for with $2K in campaign funds.
Adams, a former captain in the NYPD and the cofounder of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, calls sagging a trend which started in prison, and worries that what he calls "the sagging culture" is perpetuating negative cultural stereotypes. Moving forward, he plans to petition Joel Klein to pass an anti-sagging dress code in city public schools.
We can file this one with the ban on the N-word.
17 comments:
We see this everyday in our locations. Ugly clothes on ugly people with bad attitudes.
But what would I expect from people whose stylistic influences are -prison-.
These people are so stupid that I wonder if they know that the genesis of this is gay sex in prison, it indicated that one's rear is "untaken".
Contemporary black culture has become a case of GIGO. Once again last Monday a table in a place out in Queens was taken by a family whose father was playing rap on one of those tiny MP4 units (I-Touch etc). The speakers are so weak but I could make out the typical foul language. What kind of example is that "father" setting for his two daughters.
I told him to turn it down and to his credit he did so w/out attitude. When he got up to leave he had to hold up his pants with one hand while he payed the check. Pathetic fool.
Anyone here old enough to remember a time when blacks actually set high style?
Actually Blacks do set high style, but you have to look a very different crowd. I am always respectful of the people who come out of the Black Churches. They remind me of the conservative Catholic ladies who always came to church complete with hat and gloves.
It is a shame that the media glorifies the hoodlum, the life taker and the easy-money thug and denigrates the hard-working backbone of the community.
God bless the working man. President Obama has set a new standard. Yes, you can make it to the top, maybe you have to work harder than everyone else but so be it. It has been done and it can be done.
Pants on the ground,
Pants on the ground,
Lookin' like a FOOL with your pants on the ground!
Anyone here old enough to remember a time when blacks actually set high style?
Yes, back in the 70's, when I use to frequent Studio 54 and other disco dens.
Many of them were quite "Chic":
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President Obama has set a new standard. Yes, you can make it to the top, maybe you have to work harder than everyone else but so be it.
HA HA HA! Remind me again, what exactly has Obama accomplished other than conning a bunch of stupid white liberals into electing him President, wrote two mediocre books, and engaged in sleazy Chicago style politics?
Then again, what has any politician ever done for humanity?
The sagging pants is not my style. But I do enjoy looking at other guys with their pants down, showing their underwear. This way I get to see what everyone else is wearing!
But I do enjoy looking at other guys with their pants down, showing their underwear. This way I get to see what everyone else is wearing!
I'll bet that's not all you're looking at!
This is not as inspiring as the time I saw the elevator operator at the school I worked in with a 4-ft. long piece of toilet paper dangling from the back of his pants. Now that was style!
Deke says
Yes, back in the 70's, when I use to frequent Studio 54 and other disco dens.
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sure at age 3 you used to go and see Disco Tex and the Sex-o-lets.
or was it Johnny and the Sunshine Boys?
HA HA HA! Remind me again, what exactly has Obama accomplished other than conning a bunch of stupid white liberals into electing him President, wrote two mediocre books, and engaged in sleazy Chicago style politics?
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Maybe you are right, maybe you are wrong. But one thing is certain.
Preppy Bush opened the door for him. After that moron a yellow dog looks good.
sure at age 3 you used to go and see Disco Tex and the Sex-o-lets.
I never crossed paths with "Monte Rock" AKA Disco Tex, who was also the DJ in the club in Saturday Night Fever. (I know that from memory, I didn't have to "google" that!)
But I did hang out with Gary Coleman, Dana Plato, and Adam Rich in the VIP room at Studio 54 back in 1979, I was 11 years old, and wore a fake mustache to get past the front door people. Figure that one out genius.......
Preppy Bush opened the door for him. After that moron a yellow dog looks good.
Just because I criticized Obama, it doesn't automatically follow that I like Bush.
Were you paying attention in high school during 9th grade math class, when they had us construct truth tables, or logic rules?
Do you even know what I'm talking about?
Bravo!!!! Raise your pants:) I see teens everyday, of every single race wearing their pants like that:) and they walk funny so they don't crease their sneakers?? I know we had our crazy styles in the 80's and 90's but the saggy pants is just NASTEY!!!!
Were you paying attention in high school during 9th grade math class, when they had us construct truth tables, or logic rules?
Do you even know what I'm talking about?
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Deke, you are a poseur.
You saw Disco Tex at Studio 54 in 1979?
You wore a fake moustache at age 11 to get into Studio 54?
You think Gary Coleman as an example of black 'high style?'
A bunch of 11 year olds (You, Gary, and Adam) were hanging out in the VIP room at Studio 54 with Dana Plato, a 16 year old druggie in 1979?
Hardly.
You are right. I have no idea what you are talking about.
But I would have loved to have met your parents.
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You saw Disco Tex at Studio 54 in 1979?
Never said that. I DID see Chic (with only original member Nile Rodgers) in Battery Park City in 2004.
You wore a fake moustache at age 11 to get into Studio 54?
That I don't deny.
You think Gary Coleman as an example of black 'high style?'
Not only that, but he's done more to promote civil rights and advance black people than Obama.
A bunch of 11 year olds (You, Gary, and Adam) were hanging out in the VIP room at Studio 54 with Dana Plato, a 16 year old druggie in 1979?
Alternatively, Dana was hanging out with Gary Coleman, Adam Rich, and myself. I think Willie Aames might have been there also. I can't remember the details, we were all high on Pixy Stix.
Gary Coleman: Sued his parents and manager over misappropriation of funds, arrested for assault for punching a woman, citation for disorderly conduct, appeared in divorce court, sited for disorderly conduct and reckless driving, and arrested on domestic violence assault.
Enough 'Deke'. Enough.
I wish there was a similar plea for hipsters in effing Brooklyn and their cameltoes.
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