Aug 22 2008
Wendell Gilliard, A “Crack” Victim
Wendell Gilliard has heard all the jokes about his crusade to ban people from wearing their pants below the waist:
The City Council is finally doing something about all those sidewalk cracks.
Councilman Gilliard must own stock in a belt company.
When saggy pants are outlawed, only outlaws will wear saggy pants.
He’s heard it all — but he’s not laughing.
Wendell, people are laughing at you because you’re an authoritarian blockhead. Your proposal is a joke and you’re now the “butt” of it. Oops! There’s another one!
Gilliard says wearing your britches like you’ve just spent three years on the Subway diet is a gang sign; the lower you wear your pants, the deeper you are into the thug life.
That is absolutely ridiculous. This stupid saggy pants fad started back in the early 90s when I was in high school and nobody in my school who wore their pants like this were members of a gang.
He says the folks who dress like this are often the rapists, robbers and hoodlums causing a lot of problems around here. Talk to him for a minute and he can sway your opinion.
Show me proof. Where are the statistics? There aren’t any. It’s Gilliard’s flawed assumption based on his own shell of a world. Science need not apply.
Still, gang experts with the Charleston Police Department told The Post and Courier Thursday that they had no proof that saggy pants are a gang sign
I rest my case.
Gilliard concedes that not everyone with this very questionable “fashion” is a gang member. There are plenty of kids at suburban high schools doing the same thing.
So which is it? Gang sign or “ass”inine?
Speaking of problems and the constitution, Tim Mallard got in a little bit of trouble for defending Gilliard’s move. He was quoted as defending the proposal, in part by saying, “I don’t care if it’s unconstitutional, it sends a message.”
Well, it’s not like we actually use the Constitution anymore any how. Mallard can put his jackboots on and start sending his message around the city.
