WHY HAS SUPERINTENDENT KEENAN ALLOWED SAGGING PANTS IN HIS SCHOOLS?

There’s been a lot of talk about African American young men wearing sagging pants. Residents and people who don't live in Maple Heights have commented on why sagging pants are allowed in Maple Heights schools. If there's a dress code, why isn't it enforced?

In an article by Kirsten West Savali, dated July 12, 2012,

Kirsten states "The price tags on our youth’s sagging jeans are nothing more than potential inmate numbers in disguise."

"Even more than the misappropriation of the word “nigga” as a term of endearment, the cultural phenomenon of sagging pants speaks exclusively to the institutionalized brainwashing of black America.

If hip-hop is the voice of a generation, ass-sagging pants is the

uniform. And both are rooted in a rebellion so entrenched that many black men proudly regurgitate, through words and attire,
the tell-tale sign of psychological ownership. If we could delve beneath the often exploitative lyrics of poverty, violence, drug consumption and slangin’, we might recognize that the price tags on our youth’s sagging jeans are nothing more than potential inmate numbers in disguise."

 

 

 

 

“In prison you aren't allowed to wear belts to prevent self-hanging or the hanging of others,” Judge Greg Mathis said in a 2007 interview for Jet magazine. "They take the belt and sometimes your pants hang down. ... Many cultures of the prison have overflowed into the community unfortunately,” continued Mathis, who spent time in Detroit’s Wayne County Jail as a youth. “Those who pulled their pants down the lowest and showed their behind a little more raw, that was an invitation. [The youth] don't know this part about it."

Please read the entire article:

Sagging Pants: Prison Uniform Represents Wreckage of Black Communities?

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Durrell Brooks Sentenced To Three Days In Ohio Jail for Sagging Pants

Black boys/men and sagging pants, by Lynn


Sagging Pants [Wikipedia]