With all the pressing issues facing Alabamians, State Representative Alvin Holmes, who I usually admire and agree , is seeking a ban on sagging pants. Why?
Psst Rep. Holmes! What part of you can't legislate personal behavior don't you understand? If you don't like sagging pants, don't wear sagging pants. It's like telling a woman she can't choose to have an abortion. It's like telling gay people they can't serve in the military. It''s like telling women they can't wear pants to work. It's like telling grown people they can't gamble in their own state with their own damn money. It's like telling Michelle Obama she can't show her arms. It's like telling someone you can't drink alcohol on Sunday. You get my drift?
The Declaration of Independence declares We the People are entitled to Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If wearing sagging pants makes someone happy, so be it. If they can't get a job because their pants are sagging that's on them. If they can't run from danger because their pants fall down around their knees and trip them up, that's on them. If an airline won't let them board the plane with sagging pants, that's on them. You feel me?
How about passing some J-O-B-S legislation?
How about repealing the Alabama immigration bill?
How about repealing the Alabama voter ID law?
If your anti sagging bill passes how are they going to pay the fine with no J-O-B? They will end up in the all ready over crowed jails , where the sagging pants culture begin, with the other non violent offenders.
Maybe if they had a J-O-B and a future they wouldn't wear sagging pants.
It's not about sagging pants. Where are the J-O-B-S?
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Sagging pants is the lowest fruit on the political issue tree to pick, plus it puts enraged white locals on his side, if only to see yet another black leader lay into his own people, good reason or no.
This is some rather lazy shit from Alvin Holmes. To think I expected better of him...
Agree on all points.
Your argument is cogently stated, and I agree: There're bigger fish to fry.
If taken as a social statement, sagging pants is nothing more than mooning the world through your underpants.
If taken metaphorically, sagging pants removes the outer barrier to extremely vulnerable areas, thereby acceleration the ease by which one might either screw, or be screwed.
The quality of one's thoughts is often manifested by what one surrounds oneself with. Sagging pants suggests more than a sag in modesty, but sagging thoughts, sagging values, and a sagging view of the world.
As the world now turns, a sagging mentality will inevitably lead, for most people, to a sagging life--a droop in their potential, a sink in their opportunities, and a slump in their aspirations to experience all that they are, and all that they can be.
I couldn't have said it better myself BD.
This is racial profiling....another excuse for police to harass and incarcerate young black men.
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