by Carlhole » Fri 15 Jun 2007, 19:50:51
Pull your trousers up or go to jail, warns Louisiana mayor
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The Independent', 'C')all it the battle of the drooping drawers. Across the American South, a cry has gone out to ban sagging trousers that show the wearer's underwear. Bemused violators of the proposed law will be fined or end up in jail.
Deep in Cajun country, the mayor of the Louisiana town of Delcambre is about to sign into law a proposal that will make it a crime to wear trousers that show underwear. "If you expose your private parts, you'll get a fine [of up to $500 (£250)]," Mayor Carol Broussard said. Repeat offenders could land themselves a six-month stretch in jail.
From Baptist church halls to town halls, calls are being made for tough laws and regulations which populist politicians and god-fearing citizens say will restore dignity to their streets and shopping malls. Opponents say the measures are designed to harass young black males and other followers of hip-hop fashion. Civil liberties groups say they follow a long tradition of laws - many of them unenforceable - which are aimed squarely at the poor...
I am from the fashion-setting state of California but I am now living in Florida - hopefully, not for a whole lot longer.
And I can tell you, that the California-originated style of wearing baggy pants low showing off your boxers was illustrated well in the 90's film "Boyz In The Hood". The idea was to show a couple inches of colorful underwear. And it had a kind of accented-juvenile look, I guess, with the cap facing backwards, the grossly overlarge shirt, untied laces on the Reeboks, couple of tattoos, etc.
But, of course, lower class people always seem to run off to ridiculous lengths with these kinds of things. Here in Fla., you can see the blacks walking around with their pants completely below their ass cheeks, sometimes hanging around their knees. It just looks stupid. And it's not so much a fashion thing as it is a held-up sign that says, "Let's fuck".
And, you know, if you really wanna be a hip, kinda bad, kinda now, kinda n*gg*h, you walk around the mall holding both your pants and giant African dick up at the same time with a kind of loose, limp-wristed, one-handed clutch, like your some kind of gun-slinger or something.
And you know what? It's somehow not cool, or it's considered politically incorrect, to criticize low class blacks like you can other racial and economic groups. But i don't care; let me go on record as saying their music is low IQ and their fashion is too.