Sagging Pants Essay

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Persuasive 18 October 2011 Are your jeans sagging?! How would you feel if you were kicked off an airline because the flight attendant thought your pants were too tight? A 20 year-old college football player was ejected from a flight after refusing to adjust his pants to the liking of airline staff. From my perspective, sagging pants is nothing but a fad for the hip hop lifestyle. “Sagging your pants? Go directly to jail.” Down south in a Delcambre, Louisiana, such style carries a $500 fine and a 6 month sentence. I find this rather ridiculous. We have rapists, serial killers and drug dealers amongst us and we’re worried about how low someone’s pants are? No one has the right to legislate how people dress nevertheless if sagging becomes to the point where indecent exposure is exposed then these actions are perfectly acceptable. We are known as “The land of the free” and America takes pride in our reputation however placing laws on style of dress is not only iniquitous but unconstitutional. The main objective of this rule is to single out and label one style of dress because it originated in the community of color. If saggy pants started with people of wealth rather than the ‘lower class’, everything would be peachy but because of where its original point, it’s frowned upon. Critics of baggy pants are the modern day prejudice whites. 50 years ago, whites felt they were the superior race overall and anyone that doesn’t have the corresponding features are ignorant and useless to society. Today, non-saggers are very judgmental; they feels anyone that doesn’t have their pants snug on their waist line are uneducated, counterproductive people. Just because one man wearing a white shirt is illiterate, doesn’t mean everyone with white t-shirts are illiterate as well. My advice to everyone is to just roll
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