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Why are people trying to ban everything associated with Hip-Hop?I read something that siad Atlanta is trying to ban baggy pants.If this amendment passes,then it will spread spread to other cities,so it won't just affect people who wear baggy pants in Atlanta.As a person who wears baggy pants hearing something like this makes me mad.What buissness it of anyone else to tell someone what they can wear.I think people who wear pants up to there stomachs look silly,but Im not out trying to get that banned.This also brings me to the subject that our country is making way too many laws.Pretty soon you won't even be able to walk outside without getting a fine or getting arrested.
Is it baggy pants, or the showing of underwear? I believe it's the latter. I'm not really sure how I fall on this issue. I do think it's important to present yourself decently, and I certainly don't like to see people's underwear when I'm walking behind them in the city, but it's a bit far fetched to make a law out of it. I could really go either way, just because this problem certainly doesn't effect me, as I have a thing for belts and even more so, suspenders.
Is it baggy pants, or the showing of underwear? I believe it's the latter. I'm not really sure how I fall on this issue. I do think it's important to present yourself decently, and I certainly don't like to see people's underwear when I'm walking behind them in the city, but it's a bit far fetched to make a law out of it. I could really go either way, just because this problem certainly doesn't effect me, as I have a thing for belts and even more so, suspenders.
Well its not even a law yet in Atlanta,but if it becomes one I just feel it will end up eventually spreading to other cities.Many people who wear baggy pants also wear big shirts so I think thats BS talking about people showing of thier underwear,I know I wear big shirts.No,they just want to ban anything associated with Hip-Hop.
Also too,if they start banning sagging in cities,they also would have to ban swimsuits on beaches.If sagging is considered indecent exposure,than so should swimsuits.See what I mean,it would affect government people to ban swimsuits,so they won't do that,but it wouldn't affect them to ban sagging so they'll ban that.That sounds pretty hypocritical to me.Cause actually a city in Louisiana already made it so you could be fined for sagging,so Atlanta wouldn't be the first city to do so.
Also too,if they start banning sagging in cities,they also would have to ban swimsuits on beaches.If sagging is considered indecent exposure,than so should swimsuits.See what I mean,it would affect government people to ban swimsuits,so they won't do that,but it wouldn't affect them to ban sagging so they'll ban that.That sounds pretty hypocritical to me.Cause actually a city in Louisiana already made it so you could be fined for sagging,so Atlanta wouldn't be the first city to do so.
I won't get into an argument here, for there's no way to even address the legality of this, and, as many have alluded, it does lead down a slippery slope. But I do have a solution. ALL males, of ALL ages, should just agree to "sag" for 2 weeks. Elderly guys, school principals, police officers, clergymen, insurance salesmen, doctors, EVERYONE..if we all "sagged" for just a short time, I GUARANTEE the "saggers" would get so disgusted, they'd pull up their pants and we'd go on to bigger issues. What do you say, guys? Can we do it? Let's all get with the program here---the plumbers have already started---what are we waiting for?.....
I can't imagine that it's baggy pants, it has to be sagging and showing underwear or butt. Who would measure "baggy?" Suit pants are baggy. If it's about what it shows, then it seems to me to be more about decency standards than an assault on hip hop per se.
I'm not sure about the swimsuit comaprison. Swimsuits do show skin, but under present laws you would probably be fined for walking down main street in your underwear, but you would be okay at the beach. I think it has to do with more than what's shown. A lot of places do outlaw thongs.
Great idea macmeal!
Last edited by Rggr; 08-23-2007 at 02:17 PM..
Reason: To agree with macmeal's idea!!
It's so pathetic. Popular music including rock and r&b is dead. The art of rap is long gone too. Pop is manufactured crap from a computer and hip hop is a trainwreck of untalented idiots with little artistic talent or integrety.
The soul has been sucked out of all it and what once was incredible r&b is now forgettable hip hop that is 100% image and 0% music or talent.
All that and baggy pants.
Maybe this will be a battle cry for the hip hop community. Certainly Katrina wasn't, certainly this administration's use of the Constitution as toilet paper wasn't, certainly, the illegal purging of 50,000 black voters in Florida in 2000 from the voting lists
did not get hip hoppers to get beyond the booty and $$$bling$$$
Just another pathetic attempt by politicians to actually avoid focusing on important issues like poverty or crime. Hip-Hop isn't dead, Democracy with a purpose is dead....how sad
baggy pants? will this stop the obscenenity of plumbers showing us their butt cracks when they bend over?
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.What buissness it of anyone else to tell someone what they can wear.I think people who wear pants up to there stomachs look silly,but Im not out trying to get that banned.This also brings me to the subject that our country is making way too many laws.Pretty soon you won't even be able to walk outside without getting a fine or getting arrested.
