The Shackle Shuffle

You've seen them! The young men walking around with their pants down to their knees and their drawers showing.  It's a style that comes to us courtesy of the prison-yard culture where belts are not allowed (well at least that's what I've heard) and so the pants hang low, low, low. 

It's disgusting on so many levels. It's a physical manifestation of the lowering of standards in this youth culture of ours. Imagine, young people aspiring to look like people in prison.  As Chris Rock once said: "You're not supposed to go to jail."  It's not a badge of honor!  But you can't tell young folks that these days.  So now they shuffle around holding up their pants with one hand because it's just so "stylish."  You're supposed to wear a belt.  Every time I see some kid with his pants down so low that he can hardly ambulate it calls to mind those old-time convict chain gangs. I've called the new style of walking "the shackle shuffle."  It's good practice for when they end up in prison.  Prison giveth and prison taketh!