NEWS: NAS TO to deliver petitions to Fox News / CITIES CRACK DOWN ON SAGGING / JONES ASK FOR COMMUTED SENTENCE
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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Nas will join members of ColorOfChange.org & MoveOn.org on Wednesday to deliver 620,127 petition signatures demanding that FOX end its pattern of racist attacks against Black Americans including presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. The group will make the delivery Wednesday, July 23rd at FOX in Manhattan.
Over the last several weeks, FOX has had a string of incidents that many believe are a veiled attempt to prey on racism and intolerance and cast the Obamas as “outsiders”: an on-screen graphic referred to Mrs. Obama as “Obama’s baby mama,” a pundit “confused” Obama with Osama and then joked they should both be assassinated, and an anchor called a loving fist bump between Barack and Michelle a “terrorist fist jab.” In February, Bill O’Reilly talked about calling a “lynching party” to deal with Michelle.
Nas recently released a single and accompanying video entitled, “Sly Fox” to bring light to Fox’s unprofessional antics.
CITIES CRACK DOWN ON SAGGING

Various cities across the United States have been cracking down on youngsters who like to wear saggy pants.
Eugene Williams is the mayor of Lynwood (in South Chicago), says young men walk around town half-dressed, keeping major retailers and economic development away. He calls the new law a hot topic. The American Civil Liberties Union says the ordinance targets young men of color.
Young adults in the village, like 21-year-old Joe Klomes, say the new law infringes on their personal style. He says leaders should instead spend money on making the area look nicer.
In Flint, Michigan, Flint Police Chief David Dicks (pictured above) has said he will not back down from his policy of filing disorderly conduct or indecent exposure charges against those whose saggy pants allow too much underwear or their bottoms to show on city streets (view video).

In response, the American Civil Liberties Union’s Michigan chapter told the Free Press on Monday that it is now looking for targets of the policy to talk with the organization. The ACLU has called the city ordinance unconstitutional.
“We are confident that young men in Flint will contact us now that the chief has announced that he won’t budge,” Michael J. Steinberg, legal director of the state ACLU, said Monday. “If they do, we’ll sue. We may have the dubious distinction of being the first saggy pants lawsuit in the country.” [ READ MORE ]
Detroit and various cities in South Carolina are also jumping on the ‘no saggy pants’ bandwagon.
JONES ASK FOR COMMUTED SENTENCE
Disgraced Olympic track star Marion Jones has asked President Bush to commute her six-month prison sentence for lying to federal agents about her use of performance-enhancing drugs and a check-fraud scam.
Jones, a former Olympic gold medalist, was convicted in January of lying to federal agents investigating the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs in track and field. She was sentenced to six months in prison and 400 hours of community service and began serving the sentence in Texas on March 7.
The Justice Department reviews all requests for pardons and commutations and makes recommendations to the president. A pardon removes a conviction from someone’s record, while a commutation only reduces or eliminates the person’s sentence, according to the Associated Press. It was not clear when Jones made the request, AP reported.
Jones, 32, has been stripped of her medals won at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.








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151.
igbo man
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 /
@Frank. Your inteligence is overpowering.
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Christianana
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 /
The law makes no sense. How are they gonna lift up your shirt to see if your butt is exposed? Either you see it or you dont! thats like lifting a girls skirt up to see if she is wearing panties. And I find it shamefull that they can let all these white celebrity ho’s out of prison (Kloe Kardashian, Lohan, Nicole Ritchie) who ENDANGERED LIVES with drunk driven because of “overcrowding”. Yet they can arrest men for having a loose fit style for up to a yr in prison. How assbackwards is that?!
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TS
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 /
I’m sorry, but this is another way of locking black men up. Whats next, jailing our men for not combing their heads, or for sporting locks?
And for the poster that stated that Judah might be an israelite, thanks because you took the words right out my mouth.
Although king makes some valid points on here, I noticed the comments he makes about black women, even when the posts have NOTHING to do with women in general. Most Israelites, not all, have a huge dislike for black women. They fail to see their own flaws or the flaws of other black men in the community, but they are quick to talk some shit about what a black woman is or isn’t doing
I see them ALL the time in Downtown Brooklyn, Fulton St. and on Union Square.
People, make sure to cop Nas album!!!
154.
Ice
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 /
Everyone seems to be missing the bigger picture with the new Saggin law, just another way for the government to keep and put black men in jail just like they did with the drug laws. Imagine your 17 year old brother being locked up for a year for his pants sagging too low, and he gets out and now he can’t find a job. He has to hustle, he gets a girl pregnant, now he really has to hustle because he still can’t find a job with a criminal record, now he’s back in jail and he can’t feed his seed or his woman or even take care of himself and he has an even more serious charge, now he really can’t get a job and the cycle repeats itself and we sit around wondering where all the black men at and why they all in jail and black men ain’t shit and they should pull their pants up… Fuck that and fuck the government and wake the fuck up….. Noone’s passing laws about these white kids and their tight ass “punk” rock jeans where u can see the imprint of their pathetic penis.
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MIND SEX
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 /
It is true that people have the freedom and civil liberty to express themselves and wear what they want.But black people make the mistake of thinking that they are free and that their not in bondage anymore.They mistakenly think that they have the same personal freedoms and civil liberties that other races enjoy and they should have them, but they do not.If you are black, you can`t move around in America and do what other races normally do, unrestrained and unrestricted, without a care in the world. Sean Bell, did`nt even have the basic god given right, civil liberty and freedom to attend his own bachelor`s party without getting murdered by the police.America,Don Imus,Fox News,Rush Limbaugh,etc.etc.,pays employees to watch and observe black people and their culture, so that they can target and find something to degrade them with.So black people are far from free in America.The Feds watch and keep black politicians and people under surveillance and city police departments have special units that watch rap artists. We are being carefully watched and observed.And if you are wearing sagging pants, to society, you make yourself look openly defiant, like a prison inmate who`s trying to resist being molded by the system.You just give law enforcement a reason to target you and create more unfair laws to lock you up or murder you in a hail of bullets,because you are definitely being watched.
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marquita
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
I’m all for personal style, but I just wish these cats would get a clue about how ridculous they look with their pants tied below their butt with a belt. They can’t even walk straight! Then there are the fools who don’t use a belt and they have to walk around holding their 3 sizes to big pants up with their hand. Why won’t this fad just die already?
157.
Shelby
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
Okay…I see you Nas, doing good things, I wonder will Fox discuss this on their shows (doubt it)….hopefully CNN and MSNBC (my fav) will taunt them about it….better yet I hope Keith Olbermann will (since he hates Fox)
okay the sagging thing is nothing but a punishment mainly for blacks (lets face it)…..I can’t believe that they are blaming the sagging on why they are not getting business…..plus is it fair that (being honest here) that old white (and I am sure old black men) are placing this law on the younger generation…….whatever this is stupid and as police over there I know they are thinking that their job sucks because they are now passing out fines for sagging…..I can see if you are sagging and do not have a shirt on (or even a white beater) and that being a problem but not sagging and you have a shirt on then it is not the police business….whatever, they need to spend their money and prercious time on somthing else in Chicago…like…I don’t know……how about CRIME…..since everytime they talk about Chicago it is about either Obama or crime
158.
Kellz
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
I never supported FOX news. I always thought their segments were bias and that’s SO unprofessional. I want no part of that and I’m happy others are taking a stand. On the Jones issue - I feel sorry for her having to do jail time while other athletes get millions BUT she shouldn’t have lied. POINT BLANK! About the sagging thing, I don’t think you should be told what to wear BUT there is NOTHING cute about seeing a child’s OR grown man’s undies and/or ass. NOTHING! They (US) gave you DECADES to fix this problem and you’ll still showed your ass (literally) so now you have to pay the price. Anyone who thinks this is stupid should look at the stupidity your own people have kept up for these last 20-30 YEARS! Now that’s what I call “stupid!”
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TAL
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
Okay, Nas is one whom I respect for many reasons. but mostly because he stands for what he believes in no matter what the situation is, much praise to him…..Marion Jones made a mistake, it was a bad mistake and the wrong decision, but we are all human, I really don’t have much to say about that because I am not that interested in it. But what I am interested in is 93 days to 1 year in jail for sagging of your pants???? Come on, be real……jails are already over crowded, what’s next?
160.
Bohwe
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
Can black men stop bringing up their sexual organ , as a threat to other men’s malehood, or a way to get women. First, of all it’s sad that one would glorify in that, and not their intelligence, and another thing, a man is not going to be threatened in the least by a man that can only offer a woman a sex organ, especially when he owns everything.
161.
lauraisthick
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
This is my first time ever writing on a blog. But that law is crazy. Who are they to tell people how to dress. Now people are going to jail for saggy pants that crazy. I dont want my tax dollars being wasted on that. Thats not a crime . I personally dont care how a dude dress but if they start with sagging pant soon they be telling dudes to cut off their dreds and how their share should look. Give it a few years if that law dont get cut they would move on to dudes hair.
162.
Ura
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
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163.
krizdj
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
ok are they gonna crack down on the cable guy or plumber or fat white dude with sagging pants as well?
164.
Kent
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
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andy
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
This UNCLE TOM GARBAGE that they call black leadership are doing their best to destroy an entire generation of young black men just like the massah wants. It is all part of the plan. While everyone stares at the Trojan Obama our youth will be forced into slavery, and THEIR IS NO PUBLIC OUTCRY ON THEIR BEHALF. NONE AT ALL. The dirty lesbian man hater oprah winfrey is behind a lot of it. She fools no one.
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andy
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
the fools on this site apparently don’t know that “freedom of expression” is a basic civil rights granted to all americans, BUT BLACK FOOLS ARE SO ANXIOUS TO IMPRESS RASCIST THEY THEY ASK THAT OURS BE TAKEN AWAY. HOW DUMB IS THAT??
AND THEN THE JEWISH ACLU HAS TO SPEAK UP FOR OUR YOUNG BLACK MEN, WHEN NO N*GGAH IN POWER CARES ENOUGH TO DO IT. HOW DUMB IS THAT??? WHEN RASCIST ARE DONE JAILING OUR YOUTH, ALL THESE DUMB N WORDS WITH MONEY WILL BE PUT BACK IN THAT SAME GHETTO HOLE THEY CRAWLED OUT OF.
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andy
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
I see you’re planning some protest about civil rights for black people, and all the while you are doing absolutely NOTHING about a sagging pants law that violates the civil rights (freedom of expression) of our black young males. The JEWISH ACLU has to stand up for dumb negroes who beg for dirty laws that punish our young men for being children, and exercising the rights that MLK died for them to have.
8,000 white folks just showed their bare azzes to the entire world, but it is OK because you want a double standard, just like in Jim Crow ,for black people. YOU beg for it, you support it, and you condemn none of the black uncle tom idiots who push for a law that will start the migration of our youth into the prison system so that they can be slaves for life. Once they’re in the system, everyone knows they don’t get out.
I remember in the 1960s when my brother had the highest ACT score EVER MADE in the history of our black school, and I remember how one powerful teacher refused to allow him to be valedictorian because of his huge afro, BUT HE WASN’T A FOOL ENOUGH TO GO TO WHITE FOLKS AND ASK THEM TO DESTROY HIS LIFE BY JAILING HIM.
THE NATURE OF YOUTH IS TO BE REBELLIOUS. THEY WON’T PULL UP THEIR PANTS AND THEY WILL GO TO JAIL, BECAUSE IT IS THE NATURE OF YOUTH TO FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS. IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, THE YOUNG MARCHED ALONGSIDE THEIR PARENTS, BUT DUMB UNCLE TOM NEGROES OF TODAY WILL BE ON THE OTHER SIDE MARCHING WITH THE RASCIST, AS OUR CHILDREN ARE LED TO THE GALLOWS. I HOPE YOU PEOPLE ROT IN HELL. THE WORSE THING ON THIS PLANET IS A FOOL WITH AN EDUCATION.
THE WORLD WILL BE STARING AT YOUR TROJAN HORSE OBAMA AS THEY ARE LED TO THEIR DEMISE, JUST LIKE THE WHITE RASCIST PLANNED IT. AND WHEN EVERYTHING IS OVER AND DONE THE WHITE MAN WILL POINT A FINGER AND SAY, ‘THEY DID IT TO THEMSELVES.’ AND COME OUT SMELLING LIKE A ROSE.
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KAY1
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
this is more than ridiculous! are people really feelin that its okay for people to be arrested for wearing clothes however they feel. this has got nothing to do with decency. I’m not a fan of sagging trousers myself. but giving someone a crimanal record for clothing!! i wonder if its time we start doning more to protect our civil liberties!!!!!!!!!!!! this is a definition of foolishness- this is an example of how the state is diverting our taxes in order to carry out a continued suppression of a particular group of people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Aries
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
Fox News: Something definately needs to be done about FOX. It has nothing to do with them “picking” on the Obama’s. It has to do with the over all disrespectful antics that they do and try to act like oops my bad it was an accident.
Baggy Pants: I was just talking to my mom about this topic yesterday. IMO I am definately sick of seeing these young and grown men wearing their pants at a level that at any moment they could fall to their ankles. HOWEVER who is hurting? If they think that showing off their boxers isnt down right tacky then let them be. If their in a place of business then it is up to the owner of that establishment to set the uniform regulations. And if the owner doesnt see anything wrong with it and it bothers you then simply dont go there anymore. I feel that 1. This will just be opening up a can of worms for people to pin point anything they dont like. if their going to fine baggy pants, then fine females who wear low plunging shirts or extra mini skirts, fine guys who wear all black goth looking clothes, because it makes people uncomfortable. 2. I am definately not the type of person to pull out the race card but in this type of situation this will just be another legal reason to harrass young black men.
170.
Tasha
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
Ok, If I’m saying something somebody has already said I apologize in advance but this saggy pants issue seems unconstitional to me I don’t personally like it but if dude wants to wear his pants that way that’s his right. Is it me or is this another way to put our black men behind bars. Isn’t there something else they can focus on like actual crime. Kudos to NAS for actually taking action and not just talking about it.
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JUDAH
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
———–@143
———–Damn, you figured me out. What gave it away? The name? Lol, in all
———–seriousness, the reason why you couldn’t deduce something as obvious as
———–that is indicative of the mental stupor that you’re in. I’ve reiterated numerous
———–times on this site that the blacks, hispanics, and native americans of the
———–captivity are the descendants of the Israelites. No disrespect to you, but you
———–can’t pray for me because the god that you’re praying to is not the Most High
———–of the Bible. I’m into truth, a real thought process, and knowledge, not the
———–hearsay and emotionalism that infects the black community. If I’m
———–programmed, then show me how. Read over your second paragraph where
———–you state your feelings on black men wearing sagging jeans and it should
———–show you why I have no respect for your thought process. You’re simple.
———–Beyond that, you’re not really concerned with black men getting arrested or
———–harassed by the police. This is why people like you obsess over my
———–commentary. The truth hurts and it cuts you.
172.
JSTREET
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
Proud of Nas
173.
Dejah
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
~~~~~~~~~~ I’m glad that they are inforcing the saggy pants law.. They need to ~~~~bring it down over here in Miami because it is getting ridiculous.. These boys ~~~actually wear a bealt with their pants and it still be sagging past their thigh.. That ~~ish is nasty.
174.
MAI03
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
Theres an interesting article about the word Saggin and when you spell it backwards, and what saggin pants means in prison. heres the link, check it out. It’s very thought provoking.
http://notthead.wordpress...iggas-pull-your-pants-up/
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Goat Rydah 357
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
Big up to NAS!
Hmmmm and by the way….SAGGIN spelled backwards is NIGGAS. Now go pull those pants up and conduct yourselves accordingly!!
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FAMUFlyGUY
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
O My Goodness!!! Lick nutz. I WISH a cop wuld stop me bout my pants being “too low”. Cause not ONLY will he give me a ticket/jail time for the pants but for cursing his stupid ass out. Who the HELL are you to tell me how to dress. Your eyes dont have to be fixated on my ass. If u dont like it DON’T LOOK!!! Shit, i’m offended by alot of ppl’s outfits, but i dont think they shuld get a ticket. WHAT ABOUT SHOWING CLEAVAGE??? are girls gon’ get tickets now for showing boobies? Get the FUCK OUTTA HERE!!!!
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Z.c.K.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
yeaa && tha way my lil brother wear his pants is gonna help fight crime, stop global warming, end hunger, end poverty, end racism, stop men from beating on their wives, get crackheads off the streets, and help cure aids??? People be real, its more important things going on in the word besides this ish.
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Suzy Canadian Superstarr
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 /
Nas and Nelly were on Much Music and MTV in Toronto this week and I agree with Nas he said he calls them Sly News lmao I agree they are 2 damn shady and racist..and its not even undrercover SMH
They are doing the same thing in Canada with the saggy pants thing I think it’s stupid they are clearly trying to target a group of ppl..black inner city youth..well white kids be rockin them too but w.e. I think if your ass is hanging out thats different but saggy pants are like culture for youth now in music and its hip hop! They just aint got nothin better 2 to clearly if they want to arrest and fine ppl for wearing their clothes a certain way ..what happened to its a free country?
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mamasita
Thursday, July 24, 2008 /
Aww…Marion…I know steroids is illegal but I feel really bad for her.
The butt crack law-im glad about it,hopefully they’ll create a law for butt cracks w/thongs showing too lol.
Fox news…they’ve really been getting out of hand w/the recent comments during news segments. I stopped watching them when they didn’t do coverage on missing black female- Stepha Henry in Miami, but instead filming Paris Hilton’s house while she was in jail. Tsk tsk
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