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konane — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:19:08 GMT

Thanks Rick! All I can say to that is brilliant, purely brilliant!

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Rick G — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:15:52 GMT

Some idiot decided it was cool to wears his pants below his buttocks and the social engineers jumped on it and encouraged it, further alienating the 'group'. They keep driving wedges emphasizing the differences when actually we are individual components of the same thing. A skin cell and a hair cell are quite different but both are parts of one body. If someone punches me in the head there are no distinctions made between skin cell and hair cell...they punched ME. Extrapolate this concept to the cosmos (as above so below, as below so above) and we get a better understanding of reality and our roles in it.... [ More ]

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konane — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:29:46 GMT

Thanks TigerAngel! Maybe it's a passing fashion thing like hippie garb was in the 60's, bell bottoms and platforms of the 70's.

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TigerAngel — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:09:27 GMT

They wear that fashion here too along with no shoe laces. I heard it mimics "prison garb" because they take away ones belt and shoe laces. But why on earth does prison clothes equate with cool? Maybe someone posting here will know. Good for Platt, I hope his messege catches on all over.

Original Blog Entry: 'Pants on the Ground': a scolding for young'uns on 'American Idol'

konane — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:21:23 GMT

Link to this article found on Powerlineblog.com. Awesome background information about Mr. Larry Platt!

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'Pants on the Ground': a scolding for young'uns on 'American Idol'

The ditty 'Pants on the Ground,' by Atlanta civil rights icon Larry Platt, made its debut Wednesday on 'American Idol' and its ridicule of low-rider pants seems to be resonating.

Veteran civil rights activist and American Idol contestant Larry Platt performs his original composition, 'Pants on the Ground.'

Screenshot from YouTube

Source The Christian Science Monitor

By Patrik Jonsson Staff writer / January 14, 2010

Atlanta

General Larry Platt, whose original ditty Pants on the Ground cracked up everyone on American Idol Wednesday night, is not your standard Idol outtake (and not only because he's well over the cut-off age of 28).

Beaten by law officers during the 1965 Bloody Sunday march in Alabama, Mr. Platt was nicknamed General by Atlanta civil rights icon Hosea Williams for his heroic role in the civil rights era. (See a picture here. Platt is the young man on the left looking at the camera.) These days, Platt is going at it alone, protesting that too-stubborn urban fashion statement: pants worn low, crotch almost at the knees a sign, to many, of disrespect and a thumb in the eye to many civil rights activists like Platt who fought to raise the profile of black Americans in US society.

Sure, some communities including Atlanta have tried (with dubious success) to outlaw the fashion statement, saying low-rider pants are obscene. But Platt's catchy ditty about youths with gold in their mouths, baseball caps turned sideways, and looking like a fool with your pants on the ground could do more to discourage the look than any local ordinance, especially now that his tune is getting remixed on YouTube. Unusually cheery, Idol grump Simon Cowell predicted: I have a horrible feeling that song could be a hit.

Already, it's a ring tone, and there's a Facebook campaign charging ahead to get Platt a record deal. His message runs deeper, at least, than that of Idol hopeful William Hung (also on YouTube).

Platt has long been a presence at Atlanta City Council meetings, and his latest mission has been to protest widespread foreclosures in Atlanta's mostly black neighborhoods. Even the Georgia legislature has hailed Platt for his outstanding service in the community, and the city of Atlanta proclaimed Sept. 4, 2001, to be Larry Platt Day.

Seems appropriate that Idol would give him a nod, allowing America a perhaps overdue glimpse at one of Atlanta's unique personalities.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/0114/Pants-on-the-Ground-a-scolding-for-young-uns-on-American-Idol

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