brooklyntheory: Pull Up Your Pants No One Wants To See Your Underwear, Harlem, NYC It’s true: No One wants to see your underwear. Of course, these signs were meant to be a little, er, cheeky, but in some towns politicians actually made it against the law to let your pants sag too low. The town of Delcambre, in Louisiana, threatened offenders with six months of jail time. Here in New York, politicians like Eric Adams took a more forgiving route, running billboards proclaiming “Stop the Sag!”  Another politician, Malcolm Smith, spent $2200 in campaign funds on anti-sag ads on the sides of buses.  “I said my pants are up, my image is fine. I said you can be cool as well. This is the new cool, just raising your pants,” said Smith, at a press conference I attended in 2010. Ironically, Smith was just arrested last week — for allegedly trying to rig the New York City mayoral race. So he may not be the best role model after all.
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brooklyntheory:

Pull Up Your Pants No One Wants To See Your Underwear, Harlem, NYC

It’s true: No One wants to see your underwear. Of course, these signs were meant to be a little, er, cheeky, but in some towns politicians actually made it against the law to let your pants sag too low. The town of Delcambre, in Louisiana, threatened offenders with six months of jail time.

Here in New York, politicians like Eric Adams took a more forgiving route, running billboards proclaiming “Stop the Sag!” 

Another politician, Malcolm Smith, spent $2200 in campaign funds on anti-sag ads on the sides of buses. 

“I said my pants are up, my image is fine. I said you can be cool as well. This is the new cool, just raising your pants,” said Smith, at a press conference I attended in 2010.

Ironically, Smith was just arrested last week — for allegedly trying to rig the New York City mayoral race. So he may not be the best role model after all.

Jewish politician does blackface, gets into trouble. Dov Hikind, a state assemblyman from Brooklyn, was celebrating the Jewish festival of Purim, and decided to wear an afro, sunglasses and orange jersey to a party he was throwing. Oh, and dark makeup. “Someone gave me a uniform, someone gave me the hair of the actual, you know, sort of a black basketball player.” Hikind is now catching heat from other New York politicos but says the reaction is overblown and that it was all in “good fun.” “This is political correctness to the absurd,” he wrote on his blog, even going so far as to say, “I would do it again in a minute.”
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Jewish politician does blackface, gets into trouble.

Dov Hikind, a state assemblyman from Brooklyn, was celebrating the Jewish festival of Purim, and decided to wear an afro, sunglasses and orange jersey to a party he was throwing. Oh, and dark makeup.

“Someone gave me a uniform, someone gave me the hair of the actual, you know, sort of a black basketball player.”

Hikind is now catching heat from other New York politicos but says the reaction is overblown and that it was all in “good fun.”

“This is political correctness to the absurd,” he wrote on his blog, even going so far as to say, “I would do it again in a minute.”

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In an interview on Sunday, Representative Peter T. King, Republican of New York, who is the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, renewed his call for tougher gun restrictions, including banning assault weapons, requiring background checks for firearm purchases at gun shows and prohibiting gun sales to anyone on the nation’s terrorism watch list.

But Mr. King said he doubted that the shootings in Connecticut would alter the gun debate in Congress, saying that outside the Northeast a gun culture exists that is resistant to any kind of firearms regulation. “I hope I am wrong,” he said, “but I don’t think it will have a major impact on the debate in Congress. We’ve had a number of gun tragedies in recent years without any action being taken.” [NYT]

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Watch this video we put together. Went to a Brooklyn block party and grilled kids on what they know about the election. Kids are rad. 

No cigarette-ing 2012. —A.P. 

This is hilarious.

“If you were to look into the camera and pretend you were talking to the American people, what would you say?”

“Hello? I come in peace?”

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