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A few cities are actively trying to dissuade saggin‘, putting up anti-saggin’ billboards and, in some cases, fining and arresting people for letting their jeans sit too low.
Dallas has even commissioned a local rapper to create a song to poo-poo the trend. Ignore the fact that Dooney Da Priest’s song, “Pull Your Pants Up,” which is part of a campaign by a Dallas city official to dissuade young dudes from letting their pants sag is hot garbage; can it work? And is targeting sagging part of some larger broken windows crime prevention strategy, or is it just a way to more aggressively police black men?
Duke professor and author Mark Anthony Neal says that while “Pull Your Pants Up” may be well-intentioned, but it’s unmistakably homophobic. Dooney has since, um, apologized for the anti-gay lyrics in his song (but maybe he should consider apologizing) for all of them.
- Black women support Hillary Clinton because their men cheat too? Essence Magazine editor Tasha says that one of the reasons Hillary has such support among black women is because they know what it’s like to have unfaithful spouses. [from Racialicious.]
