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Arkansas College Accused Of Racism For Trying To Ban Saggy Pants
Opposing Views ^ | Tue, August 18, 2015 | By Brendan Kelly,

Posted on 08/19/2015 12:36:25 PM PDT by bob_denard

Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, is facing accusations of racism after attempting to crack down on people wearing saggy pants on campus.

The college has not officially banned saggy pants in its dress code, as the school has no official dress code, but signs warning that saggy pants will not be tolerated have gone up around campus and in the student center, the Daily Caller reported.

A spokeswoman for the college, Tonya Smith, said that the signs, which also warn against profanity and rude behavior, were intended to discourage disruptive behavior on campus.

“Our faculty in particular had experienced an increase in inappropriate classroom behaviors that were disturbing the learning environment,” Smith told Inside Higher Ed.

Some students have complained that the signs seem like an attempt to suppress black culture.

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TOPICS: Education; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: dresscodes; highereducation; racecard
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1 posted on 08/19/2015 12:36:25 PM PDT by bob_denard
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To: bob_denard

Come on, guys! Put a mask on, sneak up behind them, and pull their pants and boxers down around their ankles. Do it enough times and perhaps they’ll get the message. Plus, the girls will get a kick out of it and you can run faster with your pants up than they can with theirs down.


2 posted on 08/19/2015 12:39:57 PM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: bob_denard

College — “We want less trashy, low-class, disruptive, disrespectful behavior.”
Activist — “Why do you hate black people?”

Game: Spot The Racist.


3 posted on 08/19/2015 12:40:39 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Cruz is still my #1, but Trump is impressing the hell out of me.)
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To: bob_denard

I guess black horn-rimmed glasses are “rasis” too!


4 posted on 08/19/2015 12:41:38 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Cecil the Lion says, Stop the Slaughter of the Baby Humans!!!)
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To: bob_denard

“...seem like an attempt to suppress black culture....”

So I guess that they will never get a decent job looking like a former prisoner that’s looking for a little action. I wonder if this college was a historically black college, that type of attire would be totally permissable.


5 posted on 08/19/2015 12:42:25 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.)
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To: bob_denard

So we are saying that saggy pants are somehow a part of black culture??? Really??? Are these people for real or are they idiots??


6 posted on 08/19/2015 12:42:26 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: bob_denard

Saggy pants, profanity and rude behavior is a black thing?

Is this really what these people want to bitch about? Their right to be idiots?


7 posted on 08/19/2015 12:43:58 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: bob_denard

WTF is “black culture”? I venture they don’t know. It sure isn’t rap, stealing, making babies, murder, and laziness. All that came around after LBJ and his “Great Society” before that black folks, that I knew and witnessed, were mostly hard working, church going, and family oriented.


8 posted on 08/19/2015 12:44:25 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: bob_denard

Banning holding up the 7-11 is also discrimination against black culture.


9 posted on 08/19/2015 12:44:34 PM PDT by DaveyB (Live free or die!)
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To: bob_denard

Geez! Next thing you know, they are going to start asking them to speak English!?!


10 posted on 08/19/2015 12:46:41 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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11 posted on 08/19/2015 1:08:24 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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Some students have complained that the signs seem like an attempt to suppress black culture.

Well students, look at it this way, if black culture is synonymous with bad behavior, wouldn’t you recommend suppressing it in favor of American Culture.


12 posted on 08/19/2015 1:09:25 PM PDT by wita
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To: ETL
Morons.

Didn't this practice start in prison,

Homosexuals advertising butt-sex.

13 posted on 08/19/2015 1:21:21 PM PDT by TexasCajun (I'll believe in man-made global warming when those that believe it, act like it.)
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To: TexasCajun

That is what I heard also. It was a way of letting other inmates know you were “available”.


14 posted on 08/19/2015 1:28:05 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: bob_denard

So only blacks wear their pants down around there knees?


15 posted on 08/19/2015 2:02:34 PM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Yes.


16 posted on 08/19/2015 2:32:08 PM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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To: Resolute Conservative

They’re mostly still hard working, church going, and family oriented.
But they’re the ones that are studiously ignored by the racist left wing media.
Notice how quickly the media buried Dylann Roof’s Christian victims and their families when it became clear Obama and Sharpton and the saggy-pants crowd couldn’t use them?
The new story became the confederate flag.


17 posted on 08/19/2015 2:47:32 PM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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To: 48th SPS Crusader
So only blacks wear their pants down around there knees?

Wiggers do too.
18 posted on 08/19/2015 2:51:28 PM PDT by Old Yeller (B. Hussein Obama is leading this country like a lamb to its slaughter.)
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To: ETL; TexasCajun

I always heard it was a way of expressing “solidarity” with the incarcerated brothers. Belts aren’t allowed in prison. They can be used as weapons, or to commit suicide.


19 posted on 08/19/2015 2:55:37 PM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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To: TexasCajun

Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!

Thank you for playing “Why today’s youth want to advertise prison rape”.


20 posted on 08/19/2015 3:14:59 PM PDT by rikkir (You can lead a horde to knowledge but you can't make them think. (TnkU ctdonath2))
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