As someone older than the age of 40, I can sympathize with Mayor Phil Best (pictured above) of Dublin, Ga. The sight of young brothers walking around with their pants falling off their behinds makes me cringe.
I'm not sure why. There are plenty of terrible fashion statements being made out there by big-money celebrities on red carpets and mall-rat wannabes around the block.
But there is something about those falling pants and the exposed boxers that scream ignorance.
Even still, I question Mayor Best's decision of making saggin' an indecent exposure crime that could get violators a fine of $200.
While I agree that something needs to make these young men pull up their pants, making sagging a crime troubles me.
The law would prohibit the wearing of pants or skirts more than three inches below the top of the hips, exposing the skin or undergarments.
Police will be left to enforce the law, so are they supposed to run around high school parking lots with tape measures in hand looking for violators of the three-inch rule?
I'm sure city officials hope that a simple warning for kids to pull up their pants will be sufficient, but we all know that there will be at least one kid (and likely more) who will push the law to its constitutional breaking point by getting arrested and fighting the ticket in court.
And he may win.
It's hard to see how the law would stand up to judicial scrutiny. Can't you just see the ACLU jumping in with its high-priced lawyers, defending a kids right to sag? Give me a break.
Some people are already complaining that the law will be used to target young black males. Well, a quick visit to just about any mall will tell you that young white males model just about everything they see from their black counterparts, including saggin'. So it's up to the community to make sure that young black boys aren't the only ones getting pinched for this infraction.
I'm not sure how this will turn out on the streets or in the courts, but I applaud Mayor Best for at least attempting to get the pants of young boys back where they belong -- on their behinds.
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