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By HWG

August 8, 2007 9:42 AM | Link to this

How soon we forget the “cute” Daisy Dukes the all-American girls are/were wearing - with azz cheeks hanging out.

Are we addressing that as well?

You folks are funny.

By Nathan

August 8, 2007 9:55 AM | Link to this

Daisy Dukes express sex appeal. “Thug wear” is different. If one has to explain, then you obviously don’t get it. (Battin’ for the other team?)

By Carol

August 8, 2007 9:58 AM | Link to this

Has anyone done a study on the relationship between school achievement, unemployment, income level and hanging pants? Offending other folks rarely is the route to success, particularly when you are trying to get a firm grip on the ladder. But, let’s applaud the white tee shirts — some things are just better covered up.

By uncle jessie

August 8, 2007 10:01 AM | Link to this

This feller is on to somethin. If we want tourists a comin hyar to spend money, we needs Daisy and Scarlett a lookin swell, but Rhett Butler & the Duke boys need thar britches pulled up from around thar knees.

By One

August 8, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this

I say we ban both the saggy pants and the way too short skirts & shorts!!!! I don’t want to see anybody’s private parts hanging out……..male or female! Save that for when you are home with your SO!!!!!!

By Carolyn

August 8, 2007 10:10 AM | Link to this

I think they are just trying to make a statement but I don’t think they realize how stupid they look walking like a duck trying to keep their pants up or grabbing their crotch. I had hopped this fad would fade but the more we protest the worse it gets

By Dave

August 8, 2007 10:15 AM | Link to this

I like the thug look. I have been wearing my pants around my butt with my boxer shorts hanging out the top ever since I got my M.B.A. and started working in Commercial Real Estate. All my clients love it, the other guys at the office are doing it, and I am a real hit at power lunches in Buckhead. I have also learned to talk like I have a mouth full of marbles and say ‘Yo’ as often as possible. I am now doing an easy 6 figures with 8 weeks vacation a year. Perhaps you nay sayers should give this a try.

By Mrs. Warren

August 8, 2007 10:20 AM | Link to this

I think they should ban baggy pants, for one they look stupid, and two, the could conceal weapons. I’m sorry, but I don’t see the guys wearing baggy pants as perfect citizens. They look like they are up to something and they gripe about how they are treated by “the man”. Well DUH! You look like you are about to rob someone. If you can’t walk two steps without grabbing your crotch to pull your pants up, your pants are too low. I’m so sick of the hip-hop/thug thing. GROW UP, get a job and stop trying to get stuff for free. These guys probably don’t have respectable father figures in their lives.

By Marc

August 8, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this

The baggy, droopy pants may be thug wear, but I really look at them as clown wear. And these people wonder why we don’t take them seriously and make them feel disenfranchised. You want to be taken seriously? Dress like a man.

By Diogenes

August 8, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this

I live in a fairly nice neighborhood, but there is a “lower rent” apartment complex outside the entrance. Every day, we get treated to seeing these … uh … young men … walking back and forth on the sidewalk between the complex and the nearby convenience store, apparently keeping their pants up (does having the too-big hat skewed sideways help?) by hanging on to their crotches, walking with the “pimp roll,” and leering and yelling at cars as they pass. Most often, they’re also discarding junk food wrappers onto the ground as they walk. Of course, this parade continues all day long, which speaks volumes as to their employment status and aspirations. My junior high school aged kids get a big kick out of laughing at them and ranking them on the “ghetto scale,” but I just see an increasingly bleak future for America.

By ed

August 8, 2007 10:27 AM | Link to this

i don’t really see how seeing someone’s boxer shorts is offensive. if it gets to the point where “private parts” are exposed, then there’s reason to do something about it.

why not let people dress the way they want?

By RaisinBran

August 8, 2007 10:30 AM | Link to this

I laugh at every moron who thinks they are “hip” with that thug wear look. Then I yell at them to pull their pants up. Maybe they’ll get it through their think heads they look stupid eventually.

By Breezmom

August 8, 2007 10:33 AM | Link to this

Though I HATE it, I do recognize that it is a fad and a form of expression. Most of the young men that are “expressing” themselves through this “thug wear” as you call it are hardly thugs at all. By the time that most of these young men enter their homes their pants have been pulled up to a respectable level - hardly an act of a true “thug.” As for Daisy Dukes they are by no means “cute” little azz shorts that express “sex appeal.” I would no more be impressed to see my daughter in those than I would be to see my son in pants hanging below his behind.

By Steve

August 8, 2007 10:43 AM | Link to this

1998 called. They want their outrage back.

Seriously, if you didn’t already know that politicians were completely out of touch with reality, we’ve got this guy complaining about something that people don’t even do anymore. You can always tell who lives in the sticks.

By HWG

August 8, 2007 10:46 AM | Link to this

By Nathan August 8, 2007 Daisy Dukes express sex appeal. “Thug wear” is different. If one has to explain, then you obviously don’t get it. (Battin’ for the other team?)

Ignorance is bliss. You’d have to know what “team” I belong to in order to suggest that I’m “batting for the other .” Uneducated, are we? LOL.

Trust me, sex appeal is different things to different people. Grasp that.

By Bonus

August 8, 2007 10:53 AM | Link to this

My father, the police chief, loves the baggy pants fad. Everytime one of these thugs gets chased by a cop while they are runnning away from a crime scene, they trip on their pants and fall and roll - the cops don’t even have to try hard to catch them and lock them up!

By Jan

August 8, 2007 10:55 AM | Link to this

Steve at 10:43,

“something that people don’t even do anymore”. I was on Marta home from the airport last night (riding home to my ITP house) and 2/3 of the young men getting on and off the train had their pants down lower than their hips. I was rather amused at how hard they had to work to keep them up and the clown walk to keep from tripping.

By Charles

August 8, 2007 11:04 AM | Link to this

Julius Stroud of Monroe County, a military retiree, has got to be prepared for this fight. The problem is much deeper than young men who can’t keep their pants up. Children and young adult are pawns caught-up in the very jaws of evil organized forces. Many are prominent people in every area of people activity, economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion sex, and war that would like to see chaos and evil in the African American community and American communities at large.

On one of many problematic occasions during the early 1990s, a friend of mine was employed as a teacher at the local neighborhood elementary school. Several of the children were attending school with their pants drooping. He was determined that none of his students would be attending class with droopy drawers. His determination proved to be fruitful. In less than a month, all of the boys were in compliance; there were no droopy drawers.

The principal of the school discovered that the teacher did not allow droopy drawers in his class. As a result, the teacher was removed from the classroom. By the next year, many of the children were attending school showing their underwear.

Today, we live in a world filled with people who are energized by satanic forces. These forces are legitimized in the minds of people because they are being rewarded monetarily. As a result, they have no ability to determine right or wrong; good or evil.

Good luck Julius Stroud in the ongoing struggle between good and evil.

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By lanerone

August 8, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this

This is an outgrowth of prison culture, another example of promoting the worst of society as an example to follow.

By erik

August 8, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this

Don’t ban them, please!!! I DO bat for the other team and LOVE looking at these usually very fit and attractive young men’s firm, ample behinds. Love it!!! If they wanna show it, I am definitely gonna look—and leer! Lower! Lower! Lower!

By JG

August 8, 2007 11:19 AM | Link to this

I think if the community leaders told the young men what this fad actually meant it would stop in no time. From the way it was explained to me it is a fad from prison. When a prisoner is walking around the cell block if he is wearing his pants low he is advertising he is open for buisness. If you get my drift. Now if this is what this generation is trying to say we are in even worse trouble than we thought

By arb

August 8, 2007 11:19 AM | Link to this

Diogenes, I don’t care what your opinion is on this topic but I believe letting your children mock the children who live in the “lower rent” apartment complex and rate them on the “ghetto scale” is abhorrent. What you are teaching your children is far more detrimental to our society than baggy pants. Why not be a role model to not only your children but perhaps some of these “lower rent” children who could benefit from your guidance? You are what is wrong with society!!

By Politically Incorrect Truth-teller

August 8, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this

They have a right to wear their droopy pants, gold teeth, bling, hats side-ways, piercings and to mumble their way through life with a vocabulary from the ghetto —- but I also have the right not to hire them to represent my company.

After spending time standing unemployed on the street corner, maybe they’ll mnake the connection.

Probably not. My guess is they’ll not make the connection and being unwilling to do without what they cannot afford, will rob or steal your stuff.

By Diogenes

August 8, 2007 11:25 AM | Link to this

Of course, the companion piece to this is the “prone” driving position that’s so popular. How many times do you see the $600 Honda or Toyota with the $1200 rims pull up next to you, and hear the open-windowed pounding bass beat that is so grossly distorted you know the speakers are about to blow … and when you look over, all you see is the top of a head (usually with the skewed, too-large baseball hat) looking like it belongs to someone lying in the back seat? As someone very familiar with auto crash scene investigations, do you have any idea what happens to a person in a frontal impact when their seat is reclined that far??? Darwin at work, I suppose… .

By Budro

August 8, 2007 11:29 AM | Link to this

This fad is a sign of the decline of our society. It came from watching criminals get arrested. Police removed their belts, the pants sagged and the thugs began to imitate the beltless criminals getting arrested. In their community, it is a rite of passage for males to go to jail. They have high expectations of themselves (sarcasm). This “fad” needs to stop. Nothing good has come from it, just negativity and they don’t even realize it. It’s a shame.

By Diogenes

August 8, 2007 11:30 AM | Link to this

Oh arb, get off the high horse. I carefully counsel my kids (who, by the way, have many, close African American friends) that NO one is EVER to be criticized or put down because of their economic status. SOme of the finest people I have ever known are poor, and most of the worst have been wealthy.

BUT, this has nothing to do with that — it has EVERYTHING to do with personal behavior and choices. NOTHING about being poor dictates that people dress like clowns or throw trash on the ground. In fact, my kids mock the RICH rap and hip-hop stars the most.

Get real … .

By Charles

August 8, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this

Julius Stroud of Monroe County, a military retiree, has got to be prepared for this fight. The problem is much deeper than young men who can’t keep their pants up. Children and young adult are pawns caught-up in the very jaws of evil organized forces. Many are prominent people in every area of people activity, economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion sex, and war that would like to see chaos and evil in the African American community and American communities at large.

On one of many problematic occasions during the early 1990s, a friend of mine was employed as a teacher at the local neighborhood elementary school. Several of the children were attending school with their pants drooping. He was determined that none of his students would be attending class with droopy drawers. His determination proved to be fruitful. In less than a month, all of the boys were in compliance; there were no droopy drawers.

The principal of the school discovered that the teacher did not allow droopy drawers in his class. As a result, the teacher was removed from the classroom. By the next year, many of the children were attending school showing their underwear.

Today, we live in a world filled with people who are energized by satanic forces. These forces are legitimized in the minds of people because they are being rewarded monetarily. As a result, they have no ability to determine right or wrong; good or evil.

Good luck Julius Stroud in the ongoing struggle between good and evil.

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By Charles

August 8, 2007 11:40 AM | Link to this

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By arb

August 8, 2007 11:42 AM | Link to this

oh well it’s great to teach your kids to mock anybody!

By Charles

August 8, 2007 11:43 AM | Link to this

James Russell Lowell, in the Boston Courier, December 11, 1845.

Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.

Then to side with truth is noble, when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and ’tis prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses while the coward stands aside, Till the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.

By the light of burning martyrs, Christ, Thy bleeding feet we track, Toiling up new Calv’ries ever with the cross that turns not back; New occasions teach new duties, ancient values test our youth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

Though the cause of evil prosper, yet the truth alone is strong; Though her portion be the scaffold, and upon the throne be wrong; Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own.

By ralph

August 8, 2007 11:46 AM | Link to this

it’s funny how ignorant the majority of y’all sound. “Those people,” “their community”.

I didn’t realize that if someone wore baggy pants that it made them automatically “low income” or that they would “steal your stuff”.

Look back at the original post. There were no over-generalizations about the background of the individuals the prohibition would target. Y’all added that in their yourselves. As ‘arb’ put it, you are what’s wrong with society.

By truthfully

August 8, 2007 11:47 AM | Link to this

I swear every other blog i read is used as yet another outlet to let all of the racist.I mean Atlanta’s Finest come out for yet another conversation about B.S. The snide remarks made (whether those of you chose to admit it or not), are yes AGAIN targeted for a specifi group of individuals. Mr-I have also learned to talk like I have a mouth full of marbles and say ‘Yo’ as often as possible. Please keep in mind that the group of people that you chose to unsuccessfully mock, are the same ones that your children, brothers & and sisters try to emulate. And before someone makes the remark that I must be this or that or they are referring to my brother , sister or child..No I myself am also not a fan of the sagging pants but I am very tired of reading day after day the many ways that this so called “cutural melting pot” has used any means necessary i might add, these blogs as a way to vent the many many prejudices and major misconceptions of the the many classes of people that reside here as well as across the country. Understand that the remarks are not going to make anyone dissapear as badly as you’d wish that to happen. Look at yourselves and the ignorances that you bring to light. In my opinion the comments, and characteristics some of you have are far worse than a young man walking around with no belt. Try your best to degrade the next man woman or child is not a quote I’m familiar with. However Each one teach one is. So rather than stick your foot out to trip a person so they fall. Reach out and lead them in the right direction.

By Charles

August 8, 2007 11:51 AM | Link to this

Please join my cult!

By saywhat?

August 8, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this

A law banning these idiots from dressing like clowns is stupid. When I am at the mall with my kids the youngest ones can’t help but to point and laugh.

Diogenes, the word you are looking for is “supine”, not “prone”, which means lying on ones stomach. You are right about it being retarded though.

By asdfjkl;

August 8, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this

We need uniforms.

By michelle

August 8, 2007 12:05 PM | Link to this

LOL yeah this didn’t fly in virginia, either.

By Charles

August 8, 2007 12:09 PM | Link to this

@11:51, you are not deceiving anyone. You may use my name, but you can’t write the thing which I am able to write.

Obviously, the God of the bible is with me; observe what I have written.

You have chosen your side. It’s obvious by what you write and by deceitfully using the name of Charles @11:51.

By Charles

August 8, 2007 12:25 PM | Link to this

This is a warning to all Americans. There are people throughout the nation filled and energized with satanic energy. Most of the people blogging are the same people using different names. They are agent provocateur and minions of the New World Order.

Their minds are stayed on evil. Just as the integrationist Negroes sold the masses of African Americans into integration aka volunteer slavery, there are people hell bent on selling the masses of white people into the New World Order aka slavery.

White people should act in unison to rid America of this cancer, satanic spirit, before it’s too late.

By JLee

August 8, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

Ralph- Well said. It’s amazing how quickly this turned into an issue on race. This immediate judgement AND predjudice is what’s wrong with our nation.

Take a look at yourself…do you like what you see? Because these generalizations and ignorant comments are really sad…

By Charles

August 8, 2007 12:51 PM | Link to this

Him that weareth the loosest of pants doth evil towards those who would commit good, aka tight-pants wearers. Be it known that the end time is near and lines will be drawn. You must choose: baggy pants or tight pants?

By GE

August 8, 2007 12:55 PM | Link to this

This FAD got started in the prison systom. It was a way of advertising that you were open for a quick male on male sex act.

Wonder how many of these kids realize what they are advertising for!

And they wonder why no one respects them.

By Nathan

August 8, 2007 1:00 PM | Link to this

Confirmed: HWG IS battin’ for the other team.

Thanks for self-identifying. Enjoy.

By Charles

August 8, 2007 1:10 PM | Link to this

@12:51. God has given you a just reward. You mind is like that of a child. Don’t attempt to put stumbling blocks in the path of everyone else; especially the children. You have chosen your path.

Your name is not Charles @12:51. Use your own name.

Clearly everyone can see the difference between the two in penmanship alone.

You can duplicate the name but not the writing.

By Charles

August 8, 2007 1:13 PM | Link to this

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By SharonH

August 8, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this

Thank God, thank God, thank God. Where can I send my letter of thanks and gratitude to Mr. Stroud for ridding our society of this outrage? Every night when I lay in my bed, I think of all the war and famine in this world, the poverty and the crime in our very backyards, the drought, the heat wave, hunger and the sick and the elderly I see everyday while practicing my profession of nursing. Then I ask myself: what are going to do about these kids and their droopy pants? It overwhelms me. It is the first thing I think about when I waken and the last thing I think about when I go to sleep. If only it could be stopped, then all would be right with the world. Thank you Mr. Stroud for using your power to take care of it for us.

May I suggest that we criminalize this offense with prison terms, stiff fines and a registry of the offenders? Please?

By tim

August 8, 2007 1:19 PM | Link to this

I think it is a great idea for young people to copy inmates. This fad grew out of inmates not being able to wear their belts into jail in case they try to kill themselves because they are stuck being bubba’s b*** for the next 20 years. That is who I want to copy and it’s great that young people look up to a$$ raped cons in prison.

By HWG

August 8, 2007 1:19 PM | Link to this

By Nathan August 8, 2007 Confirmed: HWG IS battin’ for the other team.

The idiot speaks and validates his ignorance.

By Charles

August 8, 2007 1:23 PM | Link to this

@12:51-You remind me of the deceitful people at 1380 waok radio. They have employed a group of satanically inspired radio host. They pretend to support the African American community. Yet, their mission is to deceive them.

Just as the imposter @12:51 will be defeated, so will that deceitful radio station, 1380 waok.

By Charles

August 8, 2007 1:33 PM | Link to this

I can’t wait until the masses of white people discover this integrationist satanic scheme being put upon their nation.

Just like Saddam Hussein; it’s off to the gallows the agent provocateurs and minions of the New World Order go.

By Charles

August 8, 2007 1:41 PM | Link to this

These websites can assist the masses of white people in their discovery of enemies within the nation. I can’t provide the audience with helpful African American websites. If I did so, the integrationists Negroes will deceitful attack them like they did Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association.

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By Charles

August 8, 2007 1:44 PM | Link to this

@1:13-False prophet Charles. How dare ye side with satan and not wear baggy pants. It is clear that I, of higher brain power and spiritual strength am the real Charles.

Just as false prophet @1:13-if you do not drape thyself in baggy attire, you have given in to the satanic forces. You have chosen Satan. You have chosen tight pants (probably leather).

By Charles

August 8, 2007 1:50 PM | Link to this

It’s lunch time everybody. They should pay me more than six figures for the multitasking I do some days at work.

God I’m late. I hope every one of you enjoy your lunch. Most of you probably have already eaten.

I will talk to you all later; God willing.

By Charles

August 8, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this

Julius Stroud of Monroe County, a military retiree, has got to be prepared for this fight. The problem is much deeper than young men who can’t keep their pants up. Children and young adult are pawns caught-up in the very jaws of evil organized forces. Many are prominent people in every area of people activity, economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion sex, and war that would like to see chaos and evil in the African American community and American communities at large.

On one of many problematic occasions during the early 1990s, a friend of mine was employed as a teacher at the local neighborhood elementary school. Several of the children were attending school with their pants drooping. He was determined that none of his students would be attending class with droopy drawers. His determination proved to be fruitful. In less than a month, all of the boys were in compliance; there were no droopy drawers.

The principal of the school discovered that the teacher did not allow droopy drawers in his class. As a result, the teacher was removed from the classroom. By the next year, many of the children were attending school showing their underwear.

Today, we live in a world filled with people who are energized by satanic forces. These forces are legitimized in the minds of people because they are being rewarded monetarily. As a result, they have no ability to determine right or wrong; good or evil.

Good luck Julius Stroud in the ongoing struggle between good and evil.

By Lily Toad

August 8, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this

Who does Stroud think he is — ordering people to pull up their pants? Why should they comply? This droopy drawers fad is just that — another rebellious fad that will fade in time to give everyone something else to complain about.

By Jo

August 8, 2007 1:52 PM | Link to this

This fad glamourizes poverty & ghetto “culture”. Just more proof that poor people are illiterate, lazy trash. Anyone with self-respect & ambition lives decently. Period.

By Charles

August 8, 2007 2:01 PM | Link to this

James Russell Lowell, in the Boston Courier, December 11, 1845.

Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.

Then to side with truth is noble, when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and ’tis prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses while the coward stands aside, Till the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.

By the light of burning martyrs, Christ, Thy bleeding feet we track, Toiling up new Calv’ries ever with the cross that turns not back; New occasions teach new duties, ancient values test our youth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

Though the cause of evil prosper, yet the truth alone is strong; Though her portion be the scaffold, and upon the throne be wrong; Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own.

By Charles

August 8, 2007 2:10 PM | Link to this

Monetary degradation of the most extreme causes those victims of integrationist slavery to wear pants that do not fit. If you do not choose a side in the coming war between loose pants and tight pants, one group will emerge victorious: illegal immigrants.

By Nathan

August 8, 2007 10:05 PM | Link to this

So, HWG. WG stands for “wild girl”. Bet I can guess what the “H” stands for. lol

By uncle jessie

August 9, 2007 10:17 AM | Link to this

Rumour has it Prezident race wants to avoid droopy drawer problem. National advisor (bald headed fella from Louisiana) sent ‘em all suspenders, said “if Bill Clinton had worn his, never would a had Monica problem.”