Sagging Pants and the Long History of 'Dangerous' Street Fashion (2014)(npr.org)
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Sagging Pants and the Long History of 'Dangerous' Street Fashion (2014)
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/09/11/347143588/sagging-pants-and-the-long-history-of-dangerous-street-fashion
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What's funny is that the Venn diagram of those who would like to see laws against people sagging their pants and those who complain about being told to wear masks is a circle.
That local NAACP chapter and the Black Mental Health Alliance of Massachusetts are anti-mask? I think you're just making up imaginary enemies so you can feel superior to them.
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No, it's just another incident in a long history of getting people of color to capitulate to conservative interests in the mistaken belief that by doing so they'll finally be treated as equals.
But as we're all learning slowly, that's a game with no end. Today (well, yesterday), it's "don't sag your pants", tomorrow it's "don't 'talk back' to cops" where "talk back" includes simply asking why you're being stopped.
Conservatives will always have something they just don't quite like about what people of color do. It'll never be "being black", but it'll always oddly be something people of color disproportionately do.
But as we're all learning slowly, that's a game with no end. Today (well, yesterday), it's "don't sag your pants", tomorrow it's "don't 'talk back' to cops" where "talk back" includes simply asking why you're being stopped.
Conservatives will always have something they just don't quite like about what people of color do. It'll never be "being black", but it'll always oddly be something people of color disproportionately do.
> Conservatives will always have something they just don't quite like about what people of color do.
It's interesting how you oppose "conservatives" and "people of color". Where would you place Herman Cain, Ben Carson, etc? And what of President Obama, quoted in the article? Does he also not quite like what people of color do?
What you describe is better explained by cultural differences than by racism. It really isn't about "being black". The people I've known who complain about sagging pants complain just as loudly when they see a white doing it. Painting it as racism is an unnecessary, and divisive, escalation.
It's interesting how you oppose "conservatives" and "people of color". Where would you place Herman Cain, Ben Carson, etc? And what of President Obama, quoted in the article? Does he also not quite like what people of color do?
What you describe is better explained by cultural differences than by racism. It really isn't about "being black". The people I've known who complain about sagging pants complain just as loudly when they see a white doing it. Painting it as racism is an unnecessary, and divisive, escalation.
"A white", that's kind of telling.
And I guess you missed the part where I said disproportionately. And how bad faith actors use tactics designed to get people of color to be complicit in hopes of not being ostracized. You can't really speak to that, so what you do is go to the "black friend" defense. Ben Carson exists therefore the Republican party cannot be racist? The same Republican party that made a neurosurgeon the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development because, you know.
And yes, as long as conservatives continue to enact programs and laws that disproportionately affect people of color negatively, I will continue to view them as groups in opposition to each other.
And I guess you missed the part where I said disproportionately. And how bad faith actors use tactics designed to get people of color to be complicit in hopes of not being ostracized. You can't really speak to that, so what you do is go to the "black friend" defense. Ben Carson exists therefore the Republican party cannot be racist? The same Republican party that made a neurosurgeon the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development because, you know.
And yes, as long as conservatives continue to enact programs and laws that disproportionately affect people of color negatively, I will continue to view them as groups in opposition to each other.