Sojourner’s Place

She describes her­self as “One Chris­t­ian, African-American, Wife, Mother, Daugh­ter, Sis­ter, Pro­fes­sional, Soror­ity Woman just Sojourn­ing for the Truth and not afraid to tell it!” Her blog is thought-provoking, beau­ti­ful, and polit­i­cally afire. A con­stant flow of faith and rock-solid belief in the poten­tial of the human spirit under­scores her writ­ing. Her peo­ple, her God, her life — all she places on the page with dig­nity and a loud, gen­tle truth.

Today’s Post of the Day is Sag­gin’ Pants, which seems to be the topic of the hour in many places. The Wash­ing­ton Post Blog reported on it and towns from Louisiana to Florida to Cal­i­for­nia are con­sid­er­ing a ban on men wear­ing “droopin’ draw­ers,” a South­ern euphemism, and show­ing their under­wear in pub­lic. (Pre­sum­ably, this applies to women and girls, too.)

I never “got it” so com­pletely until I read Sojourner’s views on the mat­ter. The fol­low­ing excerpt was taken from a 22-year-old col­lege student’s email to Sojourner after hav­ing been approached for a date by a wearer of said saggy pants: “The first thing I told him to do was to pull up his pants! He asked why, then said he liked sag­gin’ his pants. I told him to come over to my com­puter and spell the word sag­gin’. Then I told him to write the word sag­gin’ backwards.”

In today’s emo­tion­ally charged polit­i­cal cli­mate, where equal­ity and the N-word are at the fore­front, the sim­ple truth of racism is the heart of the mat­ter. I found this post to be his­tor­i­cally spot-on and an infor­ma­tive and valu­able read. Reach­ing beyond stereo­types and expos­ing her ver­sion of the truth –spir­i­tu­ally bold though it is — Sojourner strives to be a clear voice for African-American women in the blo­gos­phere. Whether you agree with her pol­i­tics is not the issue. You won’t find any skirtin’ round the issues at Sojourner’s Place.

For that rea­son, The Ris­ing Blog­ger is proud to rec­og­nize Sag­gin’ Pants.

Review writ­ten by Mimi Lenox.

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