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Dooney da Priest's Fight Against Sagging Pants Won't Work

Continued from page 1

Published on November 08, 2007

If this whole misguided campaign is any indication of the perspective of the powers that be, nothing's going to cut it. If anyone cared to ask the question Why do young people want to dress this way?, we might have a start to the long journey of getting them to wear a freakin' belt. Like any visible manifestation of some very dark, very tough issues, the whole pants thing is merely a surface symbol of deep-rooted problems. And, as such, getting people to pull up their drawers would only be a surface fix. Exterior blight always indicates a troubled core, so let's just say no to simplistic solutions.

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