Daily News Feed 3.30.2010/Vocab: Popinjay

Tuesday Mar 30, 2010 – by Clutch

Senator campaigns against sagging pants
His message probably won’t go viral like an “American Idol” audition, but one Brooklyn politician is urging young people to keep their pants off the ground. State Sen. Eric Adams will announce Sunday the posting of six giant billboards in Brooklyn targeting the saggy trend. The billboards go up Monday. “This whole sagging pants culture seems to have swept the city and the country,” said Adams, a Democrat. “Children will be children. But as adults, we need to be on record and tell them they’re doing something wrong.” The 22-foot-tall billboards will be erected along heavily traveled streets, primarily in Crown Heights. Adams said he used $2,000 in campaign funds to pay for the billboards. Each billboard features two male models whose pants are hanging so low their underwear is showing. The message: “Stop the Sag!” and “We are better than this!”(Continue Reading…)

Tennessee man pleads guilty in plot to kill Obama
(Reuters) – A U.S. man pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of conspiring to carry out a killing spree targeting African Americans, including then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, the Justice Department said.

Daniel Cowart, 21, of Bells, Tennessee, said he had plotted with Paul Schlesselman of West Helena, Arkansas to carry out a racially motivated plot to murder dozens of people. He said he had planned to culminate the attacks by assassinating Obama, then a U.S. senator and presidential candidate. (Continue Reading…)

Buried for 27 days: Haiti earthquake survivor’s amazing story
For the last 10 weeks, Evans Monsignac has struggled to understand how and why he is still alive. So remarkable is his survival, that at times it has been easier for him to think that he must in fact be dead.

Severely malnourished, dehydrated, deeply traumatised and with festering wounds, the frail slum-dweller’s survival was hailed a miracle when he emerged after an extraordinary 27 days trapped in the ruins of Haiti’s earthquake, confounding doctors and defying medical logic. It is believed to be the longest anyone has endured such an ordeal.

Now recovering in a US hospital, he has spoken for the first time of his horrific ordeal, sharing haunting memories that until now have been locked away in his head. (Continue Reading…)

Census Apologies for ‘Negro’ Line
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katrina says:

March 30, 2010 at 12:28 pm

That campaign really pisses me off. Does he honestly think that telling young black men to pull their pants up will do anything!? In 2010, the problems that plague everyone of every race in this country run MUCH deeper than wasting time, energy and resources on a campaign telling kids to pull their pants up. It saddens me that this is a part of American politics. With pants pulled up, people will still be uneducated, impoverished and unmotivated to make their lives meaningful. I guess I can applaud and appreciate the focus on young black men, but please find another angle. Education and exposure would be my first suggestion.

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Tasha says:

March 30, 2010 at 1:09 pm

I feel like black males are unjustly criticized for their fashion.

You can go to the malls and plazas and see women with tiny tee shirts with their huge boobs showing, see people wearing ripped jeans with holes and wearing extremely tight jeans that look painted on.

But those styles aren’t criticized by the media. Sagging pants makes the news.

I think this is the situation because some people dislike urban black males and therefore attack them.

amber says:

March 30, 2010 at 3:35 pm

“pants on the ground, pants on the ground. you’re looking like a fool with your pants on the ground.” somebody had to do it. black men, pull your pants up.