A Georgia Mayor will sign a law making sagging pants illegal – but elsewhere jobs are being offered to those who speak Ebonics. So, how does urban culture benefit our youth? Hit the links as The Black Man investigates…
One step backwards for urban influence, one giant leap forward for conventional society. At least that’s what Dublin, GA Mayor Phil Best was thinking when he signed an amendment to the municipality’s indecent exposure ordinance this past week. From now on, wearing of pants or skirts “more than three inches below the top of the hips exposing the skin or undergarments” will get you a $200 fine.
Interesting.
Maybe those offenders will be able to afford that fine with those U.S. government checks. Remember the story just a few weeks ago? If you know how to speak ebonics, the infamous broken english of black Americans, you can help Federal Agents catch drug dealers and unsavory urbanites that are most likely, dressed and speaking the same way you are.
It’s just a small chapter in the lifestyle of the poor and infamous, the Bill-Cosby sponsored knuckleheads who are just too dumb to determine their own future. They are the analog sticks in the digital world, the sad stories drifting in the deteriorated cities and towns. More time goes by, and the more you realize they are quickly becoming the floating ducks for greedy government targeting.
You can see it everywhere, starting with the crack vs. cocaine corollary, the entrapment of everlasting prisons and controlled crunk music with neverending gangsta montages. The world looks to profit off of the misguided, even if they can create millions from teaching you how to jerk or doing the dougie. They’re sweeping their swag across the nation, and still we can’t adapt. We love Hip-Hop Harry and Nike commercials, but we can’t stand the influence when it walks in business centers, coffee shops or school buildings. We like urban culture, just when it’s convenient.
You could clap for Phil Best, or you could question his motive. Is he setting the misguided youth straight, or is he hoping to profit from their incapacity of power? After all, we’re talking mostly about supposed mistakes, kids of kids who never had parents who could or cared to give them an opportunity.
So is it another punishing law, or a provision for better opportunities. The hip-hop generation continues to have questions and answers. You could trip on the irony.
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