Sagging

Uncle Chuckie, why do people sag?

Today's sagging started in the middle 80's to early 90's. It started as a sad and unfortunate status symbol. Some guys wanted to show how bad they were. "Hey! I am the dog cause I just got out of prison." In prison they take away your shoelaces and belts to prevent people from hanging themselves and others. So when they got out of prison they continue to let their pants sag below their waist and let the tongue of their gym shoes lap everywhere. They believed that they had street respect by presenting themselves like that.

What they don't realize is that sagging goes back a lot further than that. Back when our people were slaves, the men tied ropes around their waist to help keep their pants up. The salve masters would walk up to them and snatch the rope from around their waist and tell them, "You ain't no man. Y'all lower than a dog. You ain't suppose to wear your pants on yo' waist boy!"
Now it's a fashion? Instead of progressing we are steadily regressing. Wake up my people, Wake up.