When I was a teenager and young adult, I wore t-shirts that had a message:
- "It's a Black thang. You wouldn't understand"
- "Warning: Dangerous Individual. I'm an educated Black Man!"
- The picture of Malcolm X on the front and back
I had t-shirts that had funny sayings on them. One of them had Tweety and Sylvester on it.
All of this to say, some of the t-shirts I'm seeing today really bother me.
It seems many girls are wearing t-shirts with words outlined in glitter or fake jewels. But the comments are biting, sarcastic, nasty, and "attitudinal." I don't like it and I think it is speaking to the growing darkness of these young women's souls and they are too young, and in many cases, well off, to be sporting such attitudes in words.
I was over my daughter's mother's house, going over some things with my daughter. Her "friend" was there and I called him into the room to "give him a hard time" on GP. I saw the saying on his shirt and didn't like it one bit.
I told him that he knows better than leaving his house with a shirt like that and it showed disrespect to people around him and himself. I told him it was ignorant and I know he is better than that. I left it alone.
A few days later, he called my house, by mistake. I then gave him a stronger denunciation of the shirt and how I was not happy about it at all. I told him that it was a disservice to him and his family. I then ended it by saying if he ever showed up at my home with something like that, or showed up at my daughter's mother's home with something like that, and I was there, I would rip off his shirt and throw him out.
I'm old school. I guess I should have whopped 'em.
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