Pull Up Your Pants Young Man - website included

defyfear · (#1 (**permalink**))

Tennessee minister on a mission to get young men to pull their pants up
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Last Updated: 4/12/2007 1:21:55 PM

Roland Robinson has a simple, straightforward message for young men in Memphis -- Pull Your Pants Up.

The 35-year-old Robinson describes himself as a visionary and calls his campaign a mission.

Robinson says young guys wearing their pants at half mast says "disrespect" and "I don't care" and contends his real message is to pull up a state of mind.

He recently launched a Web site PullYourPantsUpMission.com.

On it, Robinson states the purpose is to keep the biblical commandments, change young people's lives for the better and motivate people to work together. The site also quotes Scripture.

Robinson is black and aims his message at young black men, saying wearing trousers well below their waists diminishes them and their communities.

Robinson also has produced a CD which contains hip-hop songs that encourage kids to seek self-respect and self-control.

Memphis school board member and pastor Kenneth Whalum Junior applauds the concept. The minister of New Olivet Baptist Church, Whalum says youngsters wearing their pants low reflects poorly on black culture.

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The website which is quite creative for a church minister is

PullYourPantsUpMission.com.

Mokele Mbembe · (#2 (**permalink**))

I don't know about disrespet but Ijust think it looks so... gay!

It's like cleavage for sodomites...

And so so childish too. Like a Kris Kross thing that just won't go away. How people think it looks gangsta and hard is a mystery to me.

Kunjufu · (#3 (**permalink**))

Watcher I got to agree with you......It looks sooo stupid and the thing is, I see nuff people laughing after these fools behind their backs.... Here are these jokers walking like they are all that and a bag of chips... and every man jack is laughing at them walking like a pickup a pengiun advert...showing their dutty baggy...

Mokele Mbembe · (#4 (**permalink**))

Batty outta doors like a go go girl and fronting like a thug?confused3confused3

safetyblitz · (#5 (**permalink**))

It started because dudes in jail wore baggy clothes to hide their weapons. After repeated washing the elasticity of the clothes gave way and guys were pulling up their clothes. So fools on the street thought this was prison fashion and it made them look like hardened criminals, when in fact it was because the cheapness of the state.

And some dudes wore that pants like this because they were battty as you say and this allowed for quick and easy access.

LOL

People want to look LA Gangster so much it is ridiculous. I see people wearing Dickies here, not knowing that people in LA wore them to look like they were the working class worker in uniform to the police.

People imitate anything to get respect even if they do not understand the reasons behind it LOL

Madam Butterfly · (#6 (**permalink**))

i thought it was because they weren't allowed to wear belts confused3and i've seen plenty of these guys getting laughed at behind their backs!!

(now if only they swung that low at the front, it would make choosing a date so much easier smoking-devil)

Footprints · (#7 (**permalink**))

Easy access aint going nowhere... Iknow enuff brothers who 'd rather sling their belts on their shoulder than the waist or alternatively they buy a large belt and hook it loosely around the thighsin the loopsof the trousers.They say it looks a bitgay to pull them trousers up, kinda giving themselves a bit of street credibility. But plenty of white teens are doing it too - I laugh at the white boys who sag their trousers though

safetyblitz · (#8 (**permalink**))

Madam Butterfly wrote:

Quote:

i thought it was because they weren't allowed to wear belts confused3and i've seen plenty of these guys getting laughed at behind their backs!!

(now if only they swung that low at the front, it would make choosing a date so much easier smoking-devil)

Which goes back to my saying of the repeated washing, but even in Juvie we could always find ways of keeping our clothes up. 2 pair of pants, newspaper, etc You would be surprised at how ingenuine criminals are

Maat · (#9 (**permalink**))

LMAO Have you guys heard the tune

?? It reminds me of the 80's.

I do think the trousers look silly though. I remember seeing a guy running for a bus with the trousers still hanging down but he refused to pull up the trousers - at least until he caught the bus!

The other one is where the trousers are so wedgy (tight) and they STILL have to have it pulled down. Mek up unnu min' you wantde trousers on or off??