OK let me start by saying that I by no means mean the following in any racial context. There are some trends that seem to follow racial lines. When I drive down the street I usually don’t see Caucasians with their pants so darn low that almost all of their underwear is showing. I do however see a lot of African American boys and adults even with their pants so low they can barely walk.
I really do not understand the reasoning of this; don’t these people understand where that trend came from? It started in jail need I say more. Although I am Caucasian and one of my sons is bi-racial and I want to allow him his own individuality and if he feels that he needs to look more ethnic than that is his option but there is no way I would allow my son to walk around with his pants in his hands so they don’t hit the floor. I also won’t allow him to listen to that gangster rap. I don’t see the need to have him listen talking about abusing women, killing police, doing drugs, using the N word or any of the other bad words in the music. Does this make me racially insensitive? Am I keeping my son from relating to his African American friends?
I really try to keep an open mind to most things that he wants to do. For example when he wanted to do a beat box act while his friends did a rap song for the school talent show I was ok with that. When he started doing peace signs in our pictures I was ok with that too. Now when he came walking out of school with a hair pic stuck in his hair I was not ok with that. Not because of any racial thoughts just because it looked stupid to me. Am I denying him his racial identity?