saggin' spelled backwards is niggas.
interesting point made in this image. to it, i'd like to pose a few questions.
If they took us so seriously then, then what happened?
"What's the difference between a conspiracy and a strategy?" -Former IRS Agent
Did we just stop and say, 'Ok. Civil Rights. Check. Cool to sag my pants and grow some dreads now.'?
Or did "they" take us seriously enough as we're postured in the first photo to feel as if we posed an actual threat to the stability of race-based capitalism in this country?
Could strategy through marketing, sabotage, infiltration, psychology, addiction affliction and God knows what else have led us to believe that we'd accomplished enough in voting, labor, and leisure to loosen our belts, so much so that now our pants are sagging (as the second row so vividly depicts)?
Did "they" take us so seriously that "they" presented images of us in an unfavorable light, including a slanderous image of the man who happens to be the centerpiece of the first photograph?
i'm not blaming "them" for the difference in these photos. we could blame time if it makes for good tv. i'm not interested in playing a blame game. Without catalyst, provocation or reason, i have never observed a cultural change that drastic take place.
i'm sure a snapshot of what we looked like when "they" first saw us and took us seriously enough to snatch us up looks vastly different from all three of these pictures of blackness. #thinkonthat
not funkn' with this guy (Shaka Zulu)
Oh, and stop giving "them" so much credit. It's just a coincidence that saggin' backwards spells niggas, no one is that diabolical...or are 'they'?