Sagging Pants and the Long History of 'Dangerous' Street Fashion (2014)
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But as we're all learning slowly, that's a game with no end. Today (well, yesterday), it's "don't sag your pants", tomorrow it's "don't 'talk back' to cops" where "talk back" includes simply asking why you're being stopped.
Conservatives will always have something they just don't quite like about what people of color do. It'll never be "being black", but it'll always oddly be something people of color disproportionately do.
It's interesting how you oppose "conservatives" and "people of color". Where would you place Herman Cain, Ben Carson, etc? And what of President Obama, quoted in the article? Does he also not quite like what people of color do?
What you describe is better explained by cultural differences than by racism. It really isn't about "being black". The people I've known who complain about sagging pants complain just as loudly when they see a white doing it. Painting it as racism is an unnecessary, and divisive, escalation.
And I guess you missed the part where I said disproportionately. And how bad faith actors use tactics designed to get people of color to be complicit in hopes of not being ostracized. You can't really speak to that, so what you do is go to the "black friend" defense. Ben Carson exists therefore the Republican party cannot be racist? The same Republican party that made a neurosurgeon the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development because, you know.
And yes, as long as conservatives continue to enact programs and laws that disproportionately affect people of color negatively, I will continue to view them as groups in opposition to each other.