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GRAMBLING -- Sagging in the city of Grambling may become a costly fashion statement for Grambling State University students, their visitors and city residents.
On Thursday night, the Grambling City Council passed an ordinance making indecent exposure -- the showing of undergarments and underwear – illegal. Failure to comply may result in fines of $150 to $500, community service, and even time in jail.
Some university students feel attacked by the new law and others are happy that something is being done about a fashion statement they consider unacceptable.
Don't you see this is just yet another ploy to target black males, especially young black boys who society already see as threats to begin with? Sure, sagging pants -- extreme or otherwise -- is unsightly to many. However, this style of dress, which is a form of rebellion and a counterculture to the status quo, shouldn't garner legal consequences either.
How deep do you want to go?
Do we go after chicks for exposing too much cleavage or not leaving much to the imagination? We let the good ole boys roam around with apparel and bumper stickers that feature all sorts of racists messages and odes to the Confederacy. Certainly we should go after them, right?
What about tattoos? Many people can't stand folks who have these very ubiquitous tatts covering their bodies with various explicit images, words and symbols. What about cross-dressers? Who wants to walk down the street and witness Budda in a sundress wearing four-inch heels? How about those kids who adopt the Gothic look? Should these people be fined and thrown in jail because their style of dress offends our sensibilities?
Don't you see this is just yet another ploy to target black males,
Well it is something that this black male would like to see targeted just not by the police. Anyway, Grambling is going to face the same problem that a similar law faced when it came before the courts.
GRAMBLING -- Sagging in the city of Grambling may become a costly fashion statement for Grambling State University students, their visitors and city residents.
On Thursday night, the Grambling City Council passed an ordinance making indecent exposure -- the showing of undergarments and underwear – illegal. Failure to comply may result in fines of $150 to $500, community service, and even time in jail.
Some university students feel attacked by the new law and others are happy that something is being done about a fashion statement they consider unacceptable.
There are plenty examples of disgusting behaviors that aren't subject to fines or imprisonment in this country. So spare me. Attempts to pass anti-sagging laws in various states, cities and counties have been shot down over the years due being ruled unconstitutional or a waste of tax payer dollars to enforce.
This issue is low hanging fruit.
Such laws do not, regardless of its intention, address any of the ills that many believe plague black youth, black males or black communities as a whole. It only reinforces stereotypes that if young men are wearing their pants in this fashion they must be troublemakers, gang bangers or drug dealers. You know, the scary black dudes folks see on the news and read in the newspaper.
This is no different than "stop and frisk" in my opinion, and sets up racial profiling.
Remember last year when the football player was kicked off a flight because he was wearing baggy jeans or refused to pull up is baggy jeans? Come to find out that same airline allowed a white dude to wear fishnets and women's undergarments on board without confronting him.
Yeah, stuff like that is why I'm apprehensive to support such laws.
Is the problem with GSU students, or non-students off-campus?
Seems to me that if the problem was with students on campus, the school would tackle the issue. After all, they are trying to mold these young men into future professionals.
If criminals want to walk around with their pants around their knees, I am all for it, as it will slow them down when fleeing the cops!
Over regulating. If some moron wants to walk around with his pants hanging down showing off his SpongeBob boxers, it should be up to the other students to tell him how stupid he looks, not the government.
Me personally, live and let live. I can tell you this though, if someone came to me for a job and his pants were down to his knees, he spoke Ebonics, his hat was backwards or sideways, and he had that street thug mentality/demeanor, he wouldn't get the job. And wouldn't be because of his skin color. Presentation means a lot
If young black males don't like being perceived as a threat then don't act/dress like one
Don't you see this is just yet another ploy to target black males, especially young black boys who society already see as threats to begin with? Sure, sagging pants -- extreme or otherwise -- is unsightly to many. However, this style of dress, which is a form of rebellion and a counterculture to the status quo, shouldn't garner legal consequences either.
How deep do you want to go?
Do we go after chicks for exposing too much cleavage or not leaving much to the imagination? We let the good ole boys roam around with apparel and bumper stickers that feature all sorts of racists messages and odes to the Confederacy. Certainly we should go after them, right?
What about tattoos? Many people can't stand folks who have these very ubiquitous tatts covering their bodies with various explicit images, words and symbols. What about cross-dressers? Who wants to walk down the street and witness Budda in a sundress wearing four-inch heels? How about those kids who adopt the Gothic look? Should these people be fined and thrown in jail because their style of dress offends our sensibilities?
Since when did liberals start paying attention to incremental infringements on our rights? Anytime a conservative brings the topic up, it's deflection and excuses for government involvement instead of agreeing that conservatives are right. What gives? This is major news to me.
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