Louisiana Town to Penalize Sagging

In honor of penalizing saggy pants and all things associated with this ghetto behavior and this behavior continues to be our downfall as a people, today's featured song is the Hard Knock Life by Jay-Z.

I don’t know about you but I am definitely feeling Delcambre Mayor Carol Broussard.

Earlier this month Louisiana’s Delcambre city council unanimously passed an ordinance making sagging pants an act of indecent exposure.

All I can say is, it’s about damn time.

Mayor Broussard says, "If you expose your private parts, you'll get a fine." On the issue of trouser low-riders: "They're better off taking the pants off and just wearing a dress."

The possible penalty is $500, and offenders really letting it all hang out, including showing us the crack of their ass, could face six months' jail.

City attorney Ted Ayo explained that the ordinance "expands on the existing state indecent exposure law by adding underwear to the list of forbidden exposures.  This is a new ordinance that deals specifically with sagging pants. It's about showing off your underwear in public."

No, it’s about not making people see more of you than they care to.

And of course we Blacks feel targeted by the new law because sagging is popular with us. 

Mayor Broussard dismissed the claim with "White people wear sagging pants, too."

And he’s right.  Whites, Latinos, Asians, and Blacks sag their pants, both men and women.

I just think it’s disgusting and immature when you have to wear your pants so low that your boxers are showing from top to bottom.  I find it even more disgusting that women find that attractive in men.  Attractive in what way, if you ask me?

Now I would love for Los Angeles’ City Council to entertain a similar motion.  It’d be interesting to see the reaction to it.

There are certain things that have just become acceptable in our communities, and sagging is one them and for the life of me, I cannot understand why we think that it’s cute.  You can dress hip-hop without showing your underwear.  Ask me how I know…I do it all the time.

Maybe next we can get a ban on those thuggish swap meet corduroy house shoes that although are made to be worn in the house, seem to get to worn everywhere but there.  And to make matters worse, now they’re making them in children’s sizes thus catapulting them into the thug mentality at an early age.  Just a thought….

Comments

[Bill Chisolm]

Unapologetically Black, Jasmyne Cannick is known for addressing the issues that others can't or simply won't...I feel this should read Unapologetically Racist,because lady you are most definately extremely racist but you use the excuse your telling it like it is.People like you that do your damnest to divide this country while proclaiming to be for others rights is most disgusting.You pick and choose who you fight for and to hell with everyone else because you say so.You should be against Isiah Washington for being homophobic and racist but instead because his skin color is black you defend him to the death.If he was white and the gay guy was black youd be asking for his head on a platter in a heartbeat and you don't even try to hide the fact that you would.(Don't you support oppressed groups to the point you discriminate against others?)But i digress,skin color trumps everything with you....It's ok to help others that are in need or being treated unfairly but when you see only need and unfairness in your own race and only help that race then your not only worse then others you ma'am are a RACIST...-How about all the Radio shock jocks or Sharpton or tons of others that make white jokes or jewish jokes,etc. etc.Or Showtime at the Apollo or BET comedy shows where everything ever said about someone white or hispanic is a derogatory racist put down or comment,That im sure you would defend as you would defend Sharpton is funny because its about other races;it's only racist when its about black folks....hmmmmmmm yeah Who's the Racist???LOOK IN THE MIRROR!!!!!!!

[Mark Norris]

Why not ban sagging pants? I mean this country is getting more and more into a dictatorship type country anyway. Banning words, now how folks dress. What ever happened to America, land of the free, and brave????

[Mike]

To me that is petty, it's a personal style if some one wants to show off there boxers let them. Whats next banning people from wearing open toe shoes because they have hammer toes. And what about that gay women who was put out the eatery because she used a womens bathroom looking like a dude. Those type of laws do not stop there with clothing, it says that I am, better than you and you will do what I do. For a black man like me that's asking for a rebellion, I have'nt rocked them low in a while but now I feel the urge. And by the way what do you care about how black men wear there clothes?

[Andy]

I'm feeling her as well, this whole sagging pants thing is not a fashion statement, just one of uncouthness. And, for the life of me, I don't see why its popular, since its straight out of the penal system, and means you are, ummmm, available. I guess these nitwits don't know this little tidbit.

And, house shoes in public, just more uncouthness and no home training.

And, what in the world is it with these so called black "celebrites" and sun glasses at awards shows? And, chawing gum, yet another vile uncouth habit.

[Andy]

I'm feeling her as well, this whole sagging pants thing is not a fashion statement, just one of uncouthness. And, for the life of me, I don't see why its popular, since its straight out of the penal system, and means you are, ummmm, available. I guess these nitwits don't know this little tidbit.

And, house shoes in public, just more uncouthness and no home training.

[Derrick from Philly]

I always said, as long as these young guys wear that baggy, saggy Hiphop mess, they'll never get this old queen to go the automatic teller machine for them. Revolting!

[eric]

Jas,

Im all for it. But as a man, I'll be the first to admit, im going to really miss the low cut jeans that show off thongs whenever I drive through the Cresent City..

I'll be the first to admit it, I never in the almost 15 yrs this has been stylish understood it. None of the Women ive ever been with liked it either. But to each his own i guess..

I did some research on the matter, and come to find out, depending on what you believe, this phenomena was started in Jail by those deemed as Prison B-tch#s, and meant that they were available for sexual intercourse.

The other story is that due to the inavailability of Belts in lockup, many inmates would select pants one size larger then there waist and sag them so they didnt fit so Snug...

Whatever the case, its Ghetto..It doesnt rank in your moments of Ghetto-ness, ie Hoop Earrings, Base in the trunk ETc.. But it does rank with 40's, people whom still use the word N!%%@, and that very select group who thinks its acceptable to get all loud and unruly in public b/c thats our people...

[boboso]

Hooray for common sense! Now if we could only get someone to take a stand against people who wear sunglasses indoors, or at night, or indoors at night, I'd be a decidedly more happy camper.

And while we're at it, how about letting people in on the proper way to wear baseballl caps: visor facing directly forward on the head, not backward or cocked to either side at a slight angle. I realize it's petty of me but I hate that look. I'll paraphrase George Carlin here: "Any white male over the age of 10 should not wear a baseball cap backward. You're not black and wearing a ball cap backward and learning a complicated handshake will not make you cool. You'll never be as cool as black guys. You're white and you're lame." While I fully agree with George on that one, I'd prefer if noone of any race wore their cap in that manner. But that's just me and it's nice to dream sometimes. And speaking of nice dreams, any chance we could get everyone to stop wearing Yankees ball caps anytime soon? Forever?

That's my rant. Take care everybody.