09-03-2014, 08:53 PM
For those of you who don't know the droopy pants look started in prison (no belts allowed) and signaled a sexual invitation. It had nothing to do with hip hop at the time although many of the youth think it does now.
So I applaud Malik King and his campaign. "Stop talking, acting and living like thugs; and start talking, acting, and living like men." Wearing pants low contributes to the problem of racial profiling. Think about how we represent ourselves.
As for Mark Lamont Hill, well, I thought he was laughable and misinformed, not to mention disingenous. Okay, sure, they had to have somebody speak out in favor of looking ridiculous, but MLH pretended not to believe the fad's prison origins and then claimed he wore his pants that way 20 years ago when he was 16. Really? In 1994? Yeah right, didn't happen.
So I applaud Malik King and his campaign. "Stop talking, acting and living like thugs; and start talking, acting, and living like men." Wearing pants low contributes to the problem of racial profiling. Think about how we represent ourselves.
As for Mark Lamont Hill, well, I thought he was laughable and misinformed, not to mention disingenous. Okay, sure, they had to have somebody speak out in favor of looking ridiculous, but MLH pretended not to believe the fad's prison origins and then claimed he wore his pants that way 20 years ago when he was 16. Really? In 1994? Yeah right, didn't happen.