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Following the murder ofGeorge FloydIn the hands of the police at the end of May, many Americans lived at therooted racism In everything, from the emblematic brand to the words we use at themovies we once loved. Although there is still a lot of work to do, monuments have been withdrawn andThe laws have been changed In many parts of the US.S. andThe last comes from a city in Florida, which repealed its ban on Saggy pants after 13 years.

Since 2007, it has been illegal for men and women to wear sad pants that have exposed the top of their underwear to Opa-Lockka, Florida. But now, the city has repealed theLegislation against Saggy Pants, which has been accused of targeting black communities, associated press reports.

On September 9, the Commission of the City of the OPA-Locka voted 4-1 to repeal both the prohibition of Saggal pants of origin 2007 as well as a prescription of 2013 which declared, in addition to men , women could receive quotes forWearing loose pants which hanged below their underwear. According toMiami HeraldThe vote must be approved again at an additional meeting of the Commission before its operation.

"I was never in support, even as a resident," the mayor of the OPA-LockkaChris Davis, who sponsored the repeal, told theMiami Herald. "I felt it disproportionatelyaffected a certain segment of our population, who is young, African-American men. "

In an interview with CNN, Davis added: "You can not send a law toTarget any segment of a population. It must be fair. ... when you send laws like that, they may seem predatory if it is not carefully implemented. "

When the order was adopted for the first time, Florida's ACLA called it "waste of ridiculous public resources" and suggests that it "would impose penalties too difficult to behavior without a victim", affecting disproportionately Young blacks. While the city of OPA-LOCKA did not respond to theMiami Herald'sAsking for the number of citations Given, the city officials reported having issued 72 tickets (at $ 500 each or 25 hours of community service) in November of November of this year, when the order was expanded to include women.

Thirteen years later, on September 10, Florida's acluded the abogation. "Criminalize how someone wears their clothes is used for anyone. Similar orders have been continued throughout the country and have only sold a racial profiling increased by the police and an increase in racial disparities in the criminal justice system" , said the aclude to theHeraldin a report. "Our local leaders should examine ways to put an end to discriminatory practices and not to embolle them."

The only vote against the repeal came from the CommissionerAlvin Burke, who argued that the law was planned "to raise our young black men", do not target them. "To date, we still have our young men walking around Saggy and Baggy pants," said Burke. "If you see fit to do it and continue to let our young black men walk around our buildings like that ... so then be it."

The question of collapsed pants has existed for decades. In 2008, then candidate for the democratic presidencyBarack Obama was questioned about the prohibition of sagging pants during an interview with MTV. "Do I feel that people should be penalized?" VjTo balance demand.

"This is my attitude: I think people are passing a lawagainst people wearing collapsed pants is a waste of time, "Obama responded." We should focus on job creation, improve our schools, health care, treat with the war in Iraq and anyone, any public agent, who is worried that collapsed pants are probably needed to spend. A little time focus on real problems there. "

However, he added, "That said, the brothers should withdraw their pants. ... There are problems we face, that you do not have to adopt a law, but that does not mean that people do not Can not make sense and respect for other people and, you know, some people might not want to see your underwear - I'm one of them. "

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OPA-Lockka is not the only city in Florida who banned Saggy pants. Ocala adopted a similar prescription in 2014, but the repealed months later after theNaacp threatened a judicial action.

Davis said theMiami HearldThat the repeal of the ban on the Saggy pants of OPA-LOCKA comes at a meaningful time as the United States has a computation with systemic racism. "What better climate to do it in the one who is going on around the country centered on the reform of the police", Davis said theMiami Hearld. "I'm just looking for ways to make our public services more equitable." And for more information on the insidious history of racism in the United States, check 7 common sentences that you did not know how to have racist origins .