ATL Ho!

We all know the baggy pants fad is lame. Hey, I was a card-carrying, pant-sagging member for awhile myself. There is something anti-establishment about looking like shit. But illegal? If Atlanta has its way... (insert Snoop-Dogg nasal here) hell yeah.

The amendment, sponsored by city councilman C.T. Martin, states that sagging pants are an "epidemic" that is becoming a "major concern" around the country.

"Little children see it and want to adopt it, thinking it's the in thing," Martin said Wednesday. "I don't want young people thinking that half-dressing is the way to go. I want them to think about their future."

The proposed ordinance would also bar women from showing the strap of a thong beneath their pants. They would also be prohibited from wearing jogging bras in public or show a bra strap, said Debbie Seagraves, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia.

While the government playing the role of Fashion Police is disheartening and ridiculous, what's even more absurd is the ACLU's claim that this bill is "racial profiling".

But Seagraves said any legislation that creates a dress code would not survive a court challenge. She said the law could not be enforced in a nondiscriminatory way because it targets something that came out of the black youth culture.

Nigga please. This fad didn't come from the Black Youth Culture - unless you are guilty of committing racial profiling yourself because this trend came from PRISON where inmates weren't given belts to hold up their one-size-fits-all pants. And let's face it, MC Hammer poof pants "inspired" whites and blacks alike - but all that proved was that fashion retardation is truly color-blind if not completely blind. But let's ignore that. I would like to know: how do you "discriminate" against pants? Either they show crack or they don't. Oops! Was that crack comment racial profiling, too?!?!?

So who is worse?
The government that can't find anything to do with our misappropriated tax money than to pursue fashion trends? The parents who think it's a good idea for the government to police fashion so that they don't have to scold their children into pulling up their pants? Or the ACLU that adamantly screams for the rights of citizens while blatantly racially profiling their own defendants?

Full article at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070823/ap_on_fe_st/atlanta_sagging_pants