Regardless to it's origins no fashion style has ever been offensive.
There is outrage in the black community about sagging pants. Some states have went as far as to outlaw the wearing of sagging pants. We look at this and see the worst, while we know nothing behind the person wearing these pants we assume the worst.
Why is this important?
Because we all judge from looks and the biggest judgment call is what I call "Fear of a Black Man". We are looked at as the worst thing on this Earth. No Trial, no Jury, just flat out bias and fear even from within our own community.
Why the rant why the outrage about clothing?
This is Trayvon Martin.
No matter what you think about this image this is him. Who was Trayvon, by all accounts he was a child, and the only law he broke was WWB (Walking While Black). This is a very common crime that's on no one's books.
Now if you are a criminal or out there doing stupid shit this is not about you nor is it for you so don't get it twisted in any sense of the matter. If you do fucked up shit you deserve what you get, but this is not that case.
As a Afro-American Male growing up in Chicago, I've had my encounters, and I learned to live with that. It would never end in my death, maybe a beating, but not death and all my encounters were by people of my age.
So they are doing all they can to bring back the American Way, a time when the life of a black person was of no value no matter what station you have in life. Oddly enough if you are black and harm a white person they need no evidence to convict you.
Bonnie Sweeten told the police that 2 black men kidnapped her child so she could go to Disneyland. Not only was there a man hunt but the story was never questioned. Of course the story was a lie.
Charles Stuart told the police that he was carjacked, shot in the stomach while his wife was killed and that an Afro-American Male was at fault. The things that happened in Boston on the heels of that were outrageous. Yet, once again it was false.
A child is dead, but because he is black there is no justice. What do we know about Trayvon Martin? We don't know and we never will.
I believe there is a thing called excessive violence in the law. I believe the even the law dictates that in order to use deadly force you have to seriously believe your life is in danger AND that you have exhausted all other avenues of defense, which includes if you have the opportunity to get away and run. So you can follow someone, intimidate someone, accost someone and take their life in the name of "Self Defense"?
Trayvon did not bring the gun. Historically speaking when someone pulls a gun on an Afro-American the outcome is the Afro-American is shot, it's that plain and simple. The person fighting for their life was Trayvon, to bad he lost. I personally could do with one less Zimmerman in this world, I've seen too many in my time.
So just for the record the next time you see a White Catholic Male walking into a Government Building, with a dog, dressed as a clown or going to school. FEAR for your life, since we are profiling
Theodore Richard Kaczynski or Ted Kaczynski - The Unabomber that blew up The Federal Building
David Berkowitz - The Son of Sam, he was told to commit murder by the neighbor's dog
John Wayne Gacy - Dressed as a clown while raping and murdering children in Chicago
Columbine CO and Newtown CT need I say more?
