Fashion Police: Flint Cracks Down on Sagging

After having read your article on the intent of the city of Flint, MI to make "sagging" a criminal offense, I could not resist commenting. Granted, I believe that every urban city of America has issues more important that the fashion practice of "sagging". However, "sagging", no matter its origin is personally demeaning to men of color and offensive not only to White America, but to people of all cultures and etnicity. What statement are we making to African-American culture? Are we saying that we are intent on exposing ourselves in public at any cost? Are we willing to pay the price of unwarranted police harassment over the issue of "sagging"? Is jail time, a fine, loss of employment worth the price of a belt? Are we calculating the cost of our insistence of perpetuating a fashion that degades and dismisses us a Black men? "Sagging" exposes our underwear and behinds (Butts). I challenge all men of color or others that believe "sagging" is okay to check our love of self. Do we continue to dismiss ourselves and bring injustice from an unjust system upon ourselves? By the way, what about our own wives, daughters, sisters, mothers, grandmothers, aunts and female cousins? Do we believe that our propensity to "sagging" brings glory or reproach upon them? Would or do we think its qute for our women to expose thier underwear or butts in public? If we do, then we have no moral compass.

It is a shame that a city would take such drastic measures to enforce the proper wearing of pants. Would it not be easier for individuals to buy a belt and use it in the right way? Yes, civil rights should not be violated to get young men to pull up their pants. But, how long do we as African-Americans allow the fashions of the world to dictate our cultural, ethical and moral standards? We appear to desire to want to continue slave mentality. Though we are physically free and have freedom of choice, this does not give us license to promote and practice degrading and enslaving habits or fashions. We must be men and women of responsibility and accountability. The system is flawed, but we should not be willing to ignore the extreme consequences of disregarding the system.

We need to pull our pants up without the assistance of city laws or regulations. We must want to do the right thing.

THIS IS TOTALLY UNCALLED FOR. WHEN YOU ARE 6FOOT 4 INCHES TALL, THEY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING AROUND FOR YOU TO WEAR THAT FITS RIGHT. CONSIDERING THAT YOU ONLY WEIGH 150 TO 160 POUNDS. YOU WOULD HAVE TO EAT YOURSELF "FAT" TO FIT INTO ANYTHING TO KEEP YOUR PANTS UP AND BOXERS NOT SHOWING. FOR SOME PEOPLE IT IS NOT JUST A SO CALLED FAD. IT IS LIFE. SOME OF US DON'T WANT TO BE SHORT AND FAT TO FIR INTO TODAYS WORLD OF BELLY HANGING, BIG HINNIE CRACKS HANGING OUT. SO BIG DEAL THE BOXERS SHOW. ALEAST THEY ARE WEARING THEM. MAYBE WE DON'T LIKE THE PLAID SHIRT YOU ARE WEARING WITH YOUR POKA DOOTED TIE. LETS MAKE A LAW FOR PUTTING ON COLORS THAT DON'T MATCH, THAT WILL MAKE ME LOOK FASTER THAN SAGGING PANTS.

Their ass is not hanging out, if it was I think there would actually be merit to this law. They are wearing boxers, you know that piece of fabric men buy that covers all their "bits and pieces" down there. We're attacking sagging and still women are allowed to dress akin to prostitutes in public? I've seen teenage girls wear less clothing than saggers! This is absolutely ridiculous and offensive to everthing freedom in America stands for....and don't get me started on the people claiming its unhygenic! THEY ARE WEARING BOXERS, unless your so filthy that your funk has the power to portrude through your underwear, how is it unhygenic? How is it any different than a woman wearing a mini skirt to the grocery store? People are so judgemental these days, just because you aren't a slave to the trend doesn't mean you have the right to prevent others from following it. Leave it to parents to critique their childs wardrobe, but to go to the extreme to make it illegal...well that just makes me ashamed to claim I live in a country that allows supposed "freedom of expression."

All the people who wear this style are losers... It's the style of losers, prisoners, and criminals. Sounds like probable cause to me. If some idiot wants to call this racial profiling then they are saying all of that race are losers???? .... wear a belt, get an education and a job.