Saggin Pants = Niggas Pants

Saggin Pants

Pass this on to Our Youth, Our Parents, Our Black Men and Women

  Letter from a college student

   The other day, a friend of mine visited me in the lobby of my dorm
just to chat while her laundry was drying.  As we were chatting, two
young freshmen came by. One of the boys wanted to 'talk' to my friend.
She asked him how old they were, and both of the boys replied 18.  My
friend and I both laughed hysterically because we are both 22 years old.


After my friend left, the young men were still hanging around and one
wanted to know how he could gain her interest.

The first thing I told him to do was to pull up his pants!  He asked
why, and then said he liked saggin' his pants.  I told him to come over
to my computer and spell the word saggin'.  Then I told him to write the
word saggin' backwards.

       S-A-G-G-I-N

N-I-G- G-A-S

I told him the origin of that look was from centuries ago.  It was the
intent of slave owners to demoralize the field workers by forbidding
them to wear a belt as they worked in the fields or at any other
rigorous job.  In addition, men in prison wore their pants low when they
were 'spoken for'.  The other reason their pants looked like that was
they were not allowed to have belts because prisoners were likely to try
to commit suicide.  And, saggin' pants prevents you from running.

We as young Black people have to be the ones to effect change.  We are
dying.  The media has made a mockery of the Black American.  Even our
brothers and sisters from Africa don't take us seriously.  Something as
simple as pulling up your pants and standing with your head held high
could make the biggest difference in the world's perception of us.  It
is time to do right by ourselves.  We need to love and embrace each
other. No one is going to do that for us..

It all comes down to perception.  What people perceive is what reality
to them is.  We have to change not only the media's perception of us,
but we need to change our perception of ourselves.

Remember all eyes are on you Black Man. All eyes are on you Black Woman.
All eyes are on your Black Child.  People point the finger at us and
expect us to engage in negative and illegal activities, to manifest
loud, boisterous behavior, to spend our hard earned money in their
stores, buying goods we don't need, or really want.  We have allowed not
only the media, but the government and the world to portray us as a
'sub-culture. '  They have stripped our culture down to the point where
the image of Black people is perpetuated as rappers, athletes, drug
users, and consumers of junk food, expensive tennis shoes, expensive
cars, expensive TVs, cell phones and not investing in homes for our
families.

We are so much more!!!!!!!

To all our Black Men:  It's time to stand up.  There are billions of
Black Women who want to do nothing more than worship the ground that you
walk on.  We are so in love with your potential.  We want to have your
back, we want to love, support and cherish every ounce of your being.
But with that you have to show that you are willing to be the head of
our households.  You have to prove yourselves worthy of our submission.
We need you to be hard working...Not a hustler.  We need you to seek
higher education, to seek spirituality..  We need you to stand!  And
trust us, we will have your back..  We know that it gets hard.  We know
you get weary.  Trust and believe that there is nothing that a Black Man
and a Black Woman can't handle with GOD on their side.

To all our Black Women:  It is also time for you to stand up.  It is
time for you to stop using our bodies as our primary form of
communication.  It is time to be that virtuous woman that Proverbs spoke
of.  You cannot sit by the wayside while our men are dying by the
masses.  You are the epitome of Black Love.  It starts within you.  You
need to speak with conviction to let not only our Black Men know, but
the world, that you are the Mothers of this world.  You are so powerful.
You are so beautiful.  You need to love and embrace every blessing God
has given us physically, emotionally and spiritually.

For all our Black Children:  We need to love them.  We need to teach
them.  We need to stand up for them.  We need to protect them.  We need
to show them that there are no 'get rich quick' schemes.  We need to
tell them that they WILL die trying if they submit to a life of crime
and deceit.  We need to teach our children that no one will love them
the way we can.  And being a basketball player, a rapper, or a drug
dealer is not reality.  It's not realistic and only a small percentage
of people ever make it as a rapper or professional athlete.  We need to
teach our children that we can be more than rappers and athletes.  We
can be the owners of these sports teams.  We can be the CEO's of OUR
fortune 500 companies.  We need to believe in literacy.  I am almost
certain if we were to look back to the 1930's and 40's, the literacy
rates for Black American Children are probably still the same.

        

   'This is the year of empowerment. ‘God will empower us to accomplish
things this year that will be mind blowing'.

    Knowledge is not power until you apply the knowledge to yourself.