Who needs laws against sagging pants when you have Dallas rapper Doony Da' Priest offering this convincing message:

You walk the streets with your pants way down low/ I don’t know/ looks to me you on the down low.
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If you stand up straight, bet your pants fall/ Might as well walk around with your pants off/
Pull ‘em up, pull ‘em up, pull ‘em up/ Be a real man/ Stand up/ Is that your underwear, man? Pull your pants up.

Are you listening, wayward youth of Dallas? Pull your pants up if you're straight!

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Here's a root of the problem with today's black youth — local governments think that baggy pants are the root of the problem. Small (and big towns) across the country are setting up laws policing fashion faster than the ACLU can draw up press releases.

•New bans have been adopted in Hawkinsville, Ga., and six Louisiana cities and parishes, including Shreveport and Alexandria.

•Proposed bans are under consideration in Trenton and Pleasantville, N.J.; Charlotte; Dallas; Baltimore; Atlanta and three other Georgia towns including Rome, Brunswick and Plains; Duncan, Okla.; and Yonkers, N.Y.

•Bans have been rejected in Natchitoches, La.; Stratford, Conn.; and Pine Bluff, Ark.

Penalties range from fines or jail time to warnings. Several towns in Louisiana, including Mansfield, near Shreveport, passed measures in June that include fines of $150 or 15 days in jail. The Dallas city council is considering a non-binding resolution against sagging pants.

If these towns want to make baggy pants against the law, what about mullets, cowboy boots, and confederate flag t-shirts? Oh, right. There would be no point. Young black males don't wear those things.

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