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Stop The Sag Research Paper

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Stop the sag Sagging is becoming a criminal offense in a growing number of communities. Should the Commissioners of Columbus and Phenix City sponsor indecency ordinances to stop young residents from wearing pants below their butts? Will the NAACP and the ACLU associate these ordinances to racial profiling and violation of the right to self-expression? Sagging is a manner of wearing baggy pants below the waist, hanging around the buttock area and exposing underwear. Pants worn this way are kept up by constant hitching and holding the pants by hand. The style was popularized in the 1990s by hip-hop artists, and said to have originated in prison, where oversized uniforms were issued to prisoners without belts to prevent suicide and
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