atlanta ban on baggy pants and underwear showing

somebodyelsessky2020
somebodyelsessky2020 Posts: 1,177
edited August 2007 in A Moving Train
wow now the government is going to help dress people too!
i hate them myself but is this really necessary?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/23/national/main3197844.shtml
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  • Deni
    Deni Posts: 233
    I agree! The look is completely distasteful and is actually a fashion trend started in prisons. (Easily pull down your "bitch's" pants for anal rape! Why guys WANT to look like prison whores is beyond me!). But to make the style against the law is going much to far! We have the right to freedom of expression and the government shouldn't have the right to make it illegal.

    Still, I think if more guys knew where the style originated they'd be hiking them pants up right quick!
    "Ideas are bulletproof." --V

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  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,361
    Priorities, priorities!! Forget about real issues, it's all about regulating society, instead of focusing on helping it for the better.
  • Indian Summer
    Indian Summer Posts: 2,296
    Jeanwah wrote:
    Priorities, priorities!! Forget about real issues, it's all about regulating society, instead of focusing on helping it for the better.

    no kidding! some place in Louisiana did this a few months back....citing people for indecent exposure....while Katrina victims are still living in trailers!
    "It's all happening"
  • qtegirl
    qtegirl Posts: 321
    Are bra's underwear? Can you be fined for wearing a tank top and having your bra straps showing?

    What if your bra strap is too loose (it happens), and it slides off your shoulder. Can you be fined for that too?
  • THC
    THC Posts: 525
    "This is a racial profiling bill that promotes and establishes a framework for an additional type of racial profiling," she told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for its Thursday editions.

    and...i agree...
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  • Indian Summer
    Indian Summer Posts: 2,296
    qtegirl wrote:
    Are bra's underwear? Can you be fined for wearing a tank top and having your bra straps showing?

    What if your bra strap is too loose (it happens), and it slides off your shoulder. Can you be fined for that too?


    Of course not silly...unless is happens on a black girl!
    "It's all happening"
  • Deni
    Deni Posts: 233
    THC wrote:
    "This is a racial profiling bill that promotes and establishes a framework for an additional type of racial profiling," she told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for its Thursday editions.

    and...i agree...

    Why is that? Are you saying that only black guys wear their pants like that? Cause I gotta say around here its only the poser white boys that are doing it primarily.
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  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    Indian Summer wrote:
    Of course not silly...unless is happens on a black girl!


    no dice, a black politician is the one behind this.

    but yeah granted, if a white guy had done it, they would be screaming racism, I tend to think this is more about age than race but whatever.

    Some of the most racist people in the country are black politicians in Atlanta.

    In this instance I think the guy is trying to force the community (black white green brown what have you) into being more civilized and cultured. Good Luck some of the worst schools in America are right here and the people seem to relish ignorance. This is a really stupid way to try and achieve his objective but... that's just how it is.
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  • Indian Summer
    Indian Summer Posts: 2,296
    Pacomc79 wrote:
    no dice, a black politician is the one behind this.

    .

    Wow, that surprises me!
    "It's all happening"
  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    Indian Summer wrote:
    Wow, that surprises me!

    excerpt from CBS news article.

    Martin, who is black, said he plans to hold public hearings and vet the proposal through churches, civil rights groups and neighborhood organizations.

    "The purpose of the paper is to generate some conversation to see if we can find a solution," Martin said. "It will be like all the discussions we've had around the value of the hip-hop culture. We know there are First Amendment issues ... and some will say I'm just trying to put young black men in jail, but it's going to be fines."

    The penalty would be a fine in an amount to be determined, Martin said.

    Any legislation that creates a dress code would not survive a court challenge, Seagraves said.
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  • Indian Summer
    Indian Summer Posts: 2,296
    "hip-hop culture" dumbs down whoever is into it, and lives it.
    "It's all happening"
  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    Indian Summer wrote:
    "hip-hop culture" dumbs down whoever is into it, and lives it.

    I don't know, it's like anything else, knuckleheads in all walks of life.
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  • Indian Summer
    Indian Summer Posts: 2,296
    Pacomc79 wrote:
    I don't know, it's like anything else, knuckleheads in all walks of life.


    that's true
    "It's all happening"
  • glb
    glb Posts: 356
    yeah, he said he knows it won't pass (because it is illegal), yet he is still going to spend money campaigning at different churches and what not to try and support HIS bill. It's ridiculous. You're right, Atlanta politicians are ridic!
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  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    glb wrote:
    yeah, he said he knows it won't pass (because it is illegal), yet he is still going to spend money campaigning at different churches and what not to try and support HIS bill. It's ridiculous. You're right, Atlanta politicians are ridic!

    It's playing off emotions.... it's a vote buying campaign that's the extent of it. Pathetic really.
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