Pair launches campaign to encourage youths to pull up pants; Campaign seeks to end sagging trend
MeShorn Daniels and Peter Hayes want kids in Louisville — and the rest of the country — to pull up their pants.
Arguing that the sagging-pants fashion trend promotes an unhealthful lifestyle of gangs, crime and violence, they’ve launched the Pull Up Your Pants education campaign, designed to persuade young people to abandon the look — especially pants often worn so low that their underwear, or more, is exposed.
They already have the support of one Louisville Metro Council member, who plans to introduce a resolution in support of their campaign next month.
While the sagging-pants look has been popularized in the rap culture, Councilwoman Judy Green, D-1st District, said the trend has a history in slavery, when masters wouldn’t allow males to wear belts as a way to degrade them.
She said it’s also common in prison populations because prisoners are not allowed to wear belts, which can be used as weapons.
“It’s degrading. In some ways it’s indecent,” Green said. “It dates all the way back to slavery, but our children don’t know the history.”
And today “that type of dress is associated with gangsters and criminal activity,” said Daniels, an assistant block-watch captain for his 40th Street neighborhood in western Louisville. Continue reading the article at Courier-Journal.com…
December 16th, 2008 at 10:28 am
i dont think the government hould be judging the way we choose to dress,its our way of saying this is our life and we will live it the way we want to.i think only real goons do what they think makes them feel like themselfs not the way everyone else wants to see you.
p.s. be who you wanna be not what people wanna see
December 16th, 2008 at 10:28 am
be yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 18th, 2008 at 9:24 am
MAN FIRST OF ALL PEOPLE ARE DIFFERANT WHITE FOLKS DRESS IN THERE OWN WAY BUT WHEN IT COMES DOWN TOO A NIGGA SAGGIN ITS GANG RELATED OR ITS A PERSON THAT IS A BAD PERSON OR A GANG MEMBER WHEN ALL IT IS JUST A PERSONS LIFE SYLE SO FOR EVERYBODY THAT DOSENT LIKE IT THEEY NEED TOO PULL THEY PANTS OUT THEY ASS AND GET THEM SOME BIZZNESS THATS REAL TALK AND IM OUT HOLLA AT YA GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONE LOVE!!!!
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