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Wednesday, morning, I sat in front of Wal Mart for about thirty mins. I saw about 22 young men walked in with there pants down way below the butt...I just don't get it....when did it come fashionable to wear your ass out. I saw 15 girls where jeans to tight and underwear or lack there of showing. The next day I was at the gas station near the highschool and every guy walked by with their underwear showing....finally I could't take it anymore...I walked up to the group of men hangout in front of the store and ask WHY? NO One could give me a good enough answer...fashion,style, it cool like that.....Bu__ __ SH_ _!!!! We just elected the First Black man in to Office as President and this how we act and look. I told them pull up those pants, and pick up a book. Most of them laugh and one said, yes mame. At least I got to one of them. I will approach every person showing me their underwear....We must start tell our kids and other to pull up those pants....I notice all of them walk snuff footed because they walking trying to hold up there pants.....They look like waddle ducks walking....ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I am making up fliers to hand out as I go thriugh my day...about sagging pants. |
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I know, it is get old.....they need try teenager as look or preppy as a look...my son will never go out with his pants down.....I blame the parents also...who is buy this pants. I will never buy big pants for my sons. I not sure but I remmeber one city outlaw it.
Edited by acam959527 on November 10, 2008 08:13:36 PM
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my son will never go out with his pants down.....I blame the parents also...who is buy this pants. <<< that's the bottom line..........parents have to start being parents........ JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Barack Obama has a message for America's youth: Pull up your pants! In an interview with MTV's Sway Calloway, Obama fielded a question from Eric, a Huntington Beach, Calif., man who referenced a town ordinance that tried to outlaw a street fashion trend in which young men wear their baggy pants down well below their underwear. Obama said such laws were "a waste of time," but didn't hold back on his own view on the fad. "Having said that, brothers should pull up their pants," he declared. "You are walking by your mother, your grandmother, your underwear is showing. What's wrong with that? Come on." "Some people might not want to see your underwear - I'm one of them," he added. "Here is my attitude. I think people passing a law against people wearing sagging pants is a waste of time. We should be focused on creating jobs, improving our schools, health care, dealing with the war in Iraq." "Any public official that is worrying about sagging pants probably needs to spend some time focusing on real problems out there," he said. Although Obama doesn't usually cast himself as the parenting police, he has gotten some of his biggest applause at rallies by telling parents to make their children turn off the TV.
Stressing responsibility is a page from the playbook of Bill Clinton, who came out for school uniforms. (Clinton also had a famous MTV underwear moment in the 1992 campaign, when he was asked whether he wore boxers or briefs.) A Florida judge threw out a saggy-pants law in Riviera Beach, Fla., in September after a teen was arrested for showing four to five inches of his boxers. After Obama's underwear comments, Calloway asked about people who get fired for tattoos or dreadlocks. Calloway wears long dreadlocks, which Obama said "looked tight."<< from a loc'd sista.......ya damn right it looks tight! "It's one thing if an employer discriminates on the basis of gender or sexual orientation or obviously, race or ethnicity," Obama said, adding it was OK for employers to set standards. He noted that his daughter Malia wears twists in her hair. "To me, it looks great. Obviously, I would be upset if she were discriminated against on that basis," Obama said.<<< Just keeps gettin better.....It will be interesting to see if Obama's request will have any effect on the kids who sag........will they respect the request of the first Blk Pres? Matter of fact.....will Obama's presidency have any influence on other social issues within the blk community.....rappers supported his campaign by reminding young people to vote.......writing rap songs that supported him..........will they also attempt to clean up their lyrics? On a grassroots level......will having a blk pres have any effect at all?  |
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PULL EM UP!!!!!!!!..............PULL EM UP!!!!!!!! YALL KNOW THE SONG........................ " TO THE LEFT....TO THE LEFT"..... WELL.........IN THE SAME TUNE........PULL 'EM UP..........PULL 'EM UP!!!!! I CONSTANTLY TELL MY 15 YEAR OLD GREATNEPHEW TO: "PULL 'EM UP.......PULL 'EM UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THERE HAS TO BE A WAY THAT WE AS AUNTIES AND MOTHERS AND FATHERS CAN DO SOMETHING TO CHANGE THIS "STYLE".............THERE HAS TO BE A WAY TO GET OUR KIDS TO PULL UP THEIR SAGGIN' PANTS.....ESPECIALLY NOW.....WE HAVE A BLACK MAN IN THE HIGHEST SEAT OF OUR NATION ON THIS EARTH....... A REAL ROLE MODEL.......(JESUS IS THE ULTIMATE ROLE MODEL THO)........ BUT BARACK OBAMA IS SOMEONE THEY CAN "SEE"....... COPY AND LOOK UP TO.....THERE HAS TO BE A WAY......... PULL 'EM UP!!!!!!!!!!!...........PULL 'EM UP!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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I DONT REPLY TO MANY POSTS, BUT THIS TIME I FEEL THE NEED!!!!! First off as parents, mentors EC'T, it is just as much our fault as it is the industry who created the very notion that it's ok to go around with you'r butt hanging out. As a people, we have allowed white america to dictate too us how to raise our children, which over flows into the entertainment world "if that's what you want to call it", which in turn infiltrate in to the every day world and thats where the problem resides. They make our young ladies look like hoes and whores, they are deprived of their greatness, they have the view of them self's altered to try and look like white females, as an example, the long straight blonde, red, ec't hair wigs. They have been told "indirectly" that their natural hair is not beautiful or good enough, because of the industry, their esteem is shot to nothingness, the same with our young men, they know the words too the rap songs, but how many of them know their times tables, can read or write beyond a grade school level, it's our fault for allowing it to happen in the first place. As far as the pants issue, when I was coming up in the early 50's and 60's..... in the inner city... if you wore your pants like that, it meant only one thing, you were a homosexual prostitute, that's where it all started, also in jail, which meant that you were a whore in jail. I have actually told some young people this and they just looked at me like I was crazy. We as a people MUST reclaim our youth's. The industry, which have alot of African Americans in high profile in it, is enableing these trends, are them self's are nothing but puppets for the TRUE industry leaders, who happens to be white, who could care less about the damage they have and will continue to create, but the ultimate blame is ours for allowing it in the first place!
Edited by herbljones on November 12, 2008 09:12:27 AM
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I hope so. Saggin pants is also a jailhouse style favored by homosexual men to show their availability?And with so many young men adapting this style; is there any wonder why so many of our sisters become infected with HIV?Jailhouse sex is not considered down low, it's looked on as natural?bs;down low is low down no matter how you flip it.
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I was at the light yesterday and watched this young man walking and his pants were so big they didnt fit and he was saggin back pockets down to his calf and my generation started the trend but when we were in school a guys pants might be a size or two bigger with a slight sag its sad that half these kids dont have a male role model to show them that you can still be in style with out lookin like boo boo the damn fool I am a mother of two sons and I buy thier jeans a size or two bigger you can wear a belt and still be cool .... but these kids today are embarassing themselves and parents alike but I say to mothers that see that shit you know that them damn pants dont fit when he leave the house make your sons look respectable ... and these lil girls looking like hookers is another thang I too coming out of wal mart seen these young ladies with shorts that looked like a mans speedo and her timbs up to the thigh and I caught myself looking her right in the face and exclaming how much is it with a look of shame the poor thing turned her head my husband asked why did i say that ...well her thats how they market it im mean what did she expect ...?I know we cant control what they do when they leave out that door but while in the house give em some home traning but some of them are being just like mom and dad
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I don't understand you peoples a long time ago when the white man pants hang from his butt and his azz showing not underwear his azz their were no complaints about that. Now that are black men are doing it its a problems at least they arent showing the crack of there butts. And as you recall the speech that OBMAMA gave he said that there are real problems going on out here then to worry about the men sagging pants all he said about there sagging pants just pull them up brothers. whick is true and besides if you find something else to do with your time instead of hanging around there schools and at stores to see who wearing sagging pants I see that you have no life do something with your time and you would not have to worry about the teenage girls or boys pants and underwear. Get a life |
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AMEN AND AMEN, STYLE IS ONE THING, BUT THIS IS JUST NASTY.....I MET A WOMAN THAT WAS COMING TO OUR NOONDAY PRAYER HERE IN CALI, AND SHE TOLD ME ABOUT HER SON IN PRISON, AND HE WAS KNOWN AS "MASTER SAG" WHILE THERE, AND HE'S BEEN IN THERE FOR SOME YEARS....WELL TO TOP IT OFF, ANOTHER MAN THAT HAD PLAYED AROUND IN THE GAY LIFE STYLE ALSO TOLD ME THAT THIS STYLE IN PRISON WAS DEVELOPED BY THE GAY MEN IN THERE AS A SIGN THAT THEY WERE AVALIABLE AS LOVERS TO OTHER MEN.............IT'S NOT A COOL LOOK YOUNG MEN, IT'S REALLY A GAY LOOK AND AN AD TO MAKE OUT OR HAVE BUTT SEX WITH ANOTHER MAN..........SO YOU REALLY NEED TO PULL THEM UP.....OR GET BUSTED!!!...........BLACK MEN THAT DATE AND MARRY WOMEN BUT ARE UNDER COVER GAY'S....YOU ALREADY BEEN FOUND OUT ABOUT THE "DOWN LOW"...........AND ANOTHER THING..........SOME OF OUR YOUNG BLACK YOUNG LADIES ARE PULLING THEIR PANTS DOWN BELOW THEIR BUTTS AS WELL........TRYING TO FIT IN WHERE THEY CAN GET IN........THIS IS A LOOK THAT NEED TO BE AGAINST THE LAW!!!! |
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Barack Obama has a message for America's youth: Pull up your pants! In an interview with MTV's Sway Calloway, Obama fielded a question from Eric, a Huntington Beach, Calif., man who referenced a town ordinance that tried to outlaw a street fashion trend in which young men wear their baggy pants down well below their underwear. Obama said such laws were "a waste of time," but didn't hold back on his own view on the fad. "Having said that, brothers should pull up their pants," he declared. "You are walking by your mother, your grandmother, your underwear is showing. What's wrong with that? Come on." "Some people might NOT want to see your underwear - I'm one of them," he added. "Here is my attitude. I think people passing a law against people wearing sagging pants is a waste of time. We should be focused on creating jobs, improving our schools, health care, dealing with the war in Iraq." "Any public official that is worrying about sagging pants probably needs to spend some time focusing on real problems out there," he said. Although Obama doesn't usually cast himself as the parenting police, he has gotten some
BEING SAID HOW ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE FOCUSE ON THE REAL PROBLEMS |
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CINDY, AS MOTHERS, AUNTS, SISTERS.....JUST AS FAMILY MEMBERS....THESE BLACK MEN BELONG TO US ALL, AND WHAT THEY DO, SAY, WEAR,AND EVEN SING IS A REFLECTION ON US ALL AS A PEOPLE........AS FOR LOOKING DOWN WHITE MENS CRACK OF HIS BUTT....LET THEIR MOTHERS AND OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS DEAL WITH THEM.........."BUT AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE............THE STATEMENTS THAT ARE MADE.....IT'S BECAUSE WE DO HAVE A LIFE, AND WE WANT LIFE TO BE BETTER FOR ALL.......DON'T JUST LOVE TO SEE OBAMA WALK, DID YOU SEE HIM WALKING INTO THE WHITE HOUSE WITH BUSH..........DON'T HE WALK LIKE A PROUD BLACK MAN......REMINDS ME OF DANZEL WASHINGTON'S WALK.....MY FATHER WALK LIKE THAT, MY THREE SONS WALK LIKE THAT, THEY DON'T JUST WALK........THEY STRUT..THEY FLOAT.....THEY ARE KINGS. WE ONLY WANT TO REMIND THESE YOUNG MEN THAT THEY ARE "KINGS" PEACE |
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I agree whole heartedly! I was at a car wash near a school the other day and watched in amazement as a young man walked by holding his pants up. Not at waist level mind you, but just enough to keep them from falling off. He had on a belt (WHY?) but the pants were at least 3 to 4 sizes to large for him. I managed a telemarketing office and a young man, who sagged quite heavily, walked in front of me. I asked him why did I have to see his drawers? He calmly and (he thought) politely told me not to look. ??? Does Lil Wayne and others have so much influence over our youth that they have no individuality? Shouldn't we take responsibility for ourselves and our young? TV has taken away our youth's morality and it's our fault. We parked them in front of it, using it as a babysitter because it kept them out of our hair. Oh, you can blame the white man for the programming, but who gave them unlimited access to it? We did! So it's no wonder they emulate what they see because the faces they see doing it look like theirs.
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When talking to young men about saggin acknowledgement is made that it's a fashion style. That's out of the way. Next the youth are informed that saggin came out of the California Youth Authority's prisons for young men where they play booty games and are made to belong to someone for sex. Out here hours on hours are spent thinking about where your pants are, what level they are and how much of your behind is exposed, time lost in learning to read, do math, know Black History or lost time socializing with "the hommies." very little time spent with girls. Only another male comments or thinks about your exposure of your funky draws, homosexual thoughts of your booty. Women don't care about your funky draws!!! Women want to know what's up front! How big is your dick, what can you do to satisfy her? Invariably, they leave pulling their pants up. |
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Please PULL UP YOUR PANTS....................Better yet try buying some that FIT....It does not look nice at all.....and it showes that you don't have any respect for yourself or anyone else........................Young people try starting a fad of your own, something neat and respectful........and you will be surprised at the respect you will get in return, people will look at you in a completly different way,and you will feel better about yourself also.....Parents please start instilling good values in your children by setting an example yourself.....and not letting your children follow fads that are not correct no matter what the other kids do......Young Ladies have some respect and pride in and for yourself...................wear clothes that compliment you, not degrade you and make you look like a hoochie momma,or a slut (to be blunt)..there is nothing more discusting than a young lady looking nasty......men don't respect you they just look at you like a piece of ASS....try leaving something to the imagination instead of putting it all out there for everyone to see...so you can and will get the respect that ALL young black women deserve..........This comment is not to hurt anyone, I just hope it will give you something to think about, and you will see the change in your life. May GOD BLESS.
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