THE GENESIS OF SAGGING.

I say happy new year to all my beloved friends and dear readers out there, I'm glad we've all made it.

Well, getting started, we all know that sagging is a common fashion that can be seen out there on daily basis and its existence is as old as the beginning of Africa's colonization.

I don't have a strong hold against people sagging their pants/trousers especially today's youth but there's a question I keep ruminating over, I sometimes wonder if the origin of sagging is the reason why people sag today or it is just a fashion conventionally accepted by the society.

I would like to point out what sagging literary mean before today.

Sagging as a style of dress originates within the African American community with hip-pop artists and rappers leading the way.

The duo Kriss-Kross usually perform in gigantic sagging trousers worn backwards.

Secondly, Sagging of trousers have  history in the American prison system. It signifies homosexuality amongst prisoners and their fellow prisoners.

Since prisoners are not allowed to wear their belts because it can be used as a weapon in the prison, this becomes an avenue for them to have easy access to each other. You sometimes find prisoners having sexual affair with each other and once you are seen with a saggy trouser, it simply means that you are ready and willing for a homosexual affair (in prison-dom).

During colonial era, some black men would be taken to a public place and will be asked to lower down their pants/trousers and bend forward.

At this point, the master would brutally rape all the men that were asked to sag their trousers.

And After this act of violation, the slaves would be forced to wear their trousers without any belt as an evidence that they have been raped by their masters.

But today, young men and women who sag their trousers and pants believe that they are free to dress how they choose and I find this very ironical because this fashion statement originates from the context of homosexuality or serves as a significant symbol of slavery.

Therefore in order not to talk much like the Pharisees, I would like to cross a line here after letting you know where sagging of trouser originates from.

And I do hope that we shall all chronicle greater achievements this year.

©Christopher P Wisdom.

IF / Mohamed Issah Jr

 IF

 

Darling,

If I were a morning,

I would like you to be my sunrise.

 

If I were an ocean,

I would like you to be my waves.

 

If I were a church,

I would like you to be my altar.

 

If I were a night,

I would like you to be my dawn

 

Honey,

If I were a beehive

I would like you to be it's queen.

 

And if i were you,

I would be in love with me too.

 

©VikingPens

Mohamed Issah Jr is a Malawian poet and an upcoming short story writer. He has anthologies of poetry namely; 'Behind The Noisy Door.''Valentino' and 'At A Gaze Of Love.'

He writes narrative poetry and fictional stories

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BEHIND EVERYTHING

 

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Behind the rich faces,

Are devils with two legs

With the act of darkness

But covered with innocence

 

Behind the wall of religion,

Are men and women with sins

With the act of murder and rape

But covered with the name of God

 

Behind a very good job for the lady

There is a manager with no shame

Taking away her dignity for the job

Not knowing how to live with it.

 

Behind the beautiful girl,

Living greatly with the step father,

Are sleepless nights as the father

Forces himself on her and shuts her up

 

Behind the smiles of a house wife

Is the brutal husband

Being hurt by him

Because she has nowhere to go

 

Behind the hatred from her own mother,

Is a horrible past she never forgets

She was raped and got pregnant

And he is the product and the victim

 

Behind the mad man walking around

Is a bad behaviour he engaged himself into

Trying to take away problems

He took away everything that makes a human

 

Behind the monster you see

Is the unexpected truth

That everyone walked away

When he needed them the most

 

Behind the death of albino’s

Is the untold story

Of the one who wants them dead

For no reason

 

Behind the degree he has

Without any knowledge

Is someone so hardworking

Only that he forged it

 

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