Texas campaign insults many

Do your pants hang low? Do they wobble to and fro? Can you tie them in a knot? Can you tie them in a bow? Well, if you can, don't go to Texas. Many cities and states are concerned with young adults wearing baggy pants. Some have gone so far as to ban wearing baggy pants in cities. Now, Texas has a fresh new idea.

A campaign in Dallas, Texas is trying to target the hip-hop areas connected with wearing baggy pants. In a recent song started for the campaign called "Pull Your Pants Up" by Donney da Priest, the lyrics link baggy pants to being homosexual. Being targeted as a homosexual is now a deterrent to get around the unconstitutional results of trying to ban baggy pants. In a society where you are free to be who you are, including matters of sexual preference, how awful is this to make homosexuality a deterrent method?

The idea comes from prisons and jails. It is said that men who wore their pants low enough to show their under-roos were signaling to other men in the prison that they were "available." The campaign believes that the song will hit hard with some younger men. Some of the lyrics talk about "living on the down low" or in other words, meaning you want to be with men but keeping it a secret.

The song makes comments like "be a real man, pull your pants up" and then turns right around and talks about "walkin' around, showin' your behind to other dudes." I understand that the government always wants to control what people do, but using homophobic references in a song and disrespecting many Americans in all walks of life is definitely not okay.

The song would have been appropriate if the campaign would have left out the homophobic nature. I do not understand why governments are so concerned about baggy pants. I know it is not that attractive and pretty annoying when everywhere you look you see someone's boxers, but why ban something like this? If anything, it is a phase. Obviously the city governments know what phases are, we have all been through one or two.

On a different note, using homosexuality as a deterrent is wrong on so many other levels. I predict later that the cities will have more problems because of hate crimes committed because of this song and the idea the city is putting into young adults' minds.

The campaign could reach so many audiences by just having speakers or maybe taking the offensiveness out of the song. However, if governments are going to ban baggy pants, where is the ban against butt-showing skirts?