Saggin’s Surreal Saga Goes On

To sum up: City Councilman Dwaine Caraway doesn’t like the way kids are wearing their pants down low and tried to pass an ordinance against it. He failed to get horseshoe support but does get billboard space donated for the campaign. The owner of a barbershop, who is also a hip-hop/gospel recording artist named Dooney Da’ Priest on account of he’s a “street preacher,” writes a song about the epidemic — an anthem for the anti-saggin’ movement. But the song offends some listeners because the lyrics try to shame those who sag by calling the practice — and the practitioners — gay. (Da’ Priest says the trend started in prisons, as an advertisement for gay sex.) Da’ Priest sort of apologizes to NPR’s Bryant Park Blog podcast listeners, saying he is against homosexuality but the song is more about education of saggin’s provenance. He tells the Dallas Voice more of the same, pointing out that he did change the word “gay” to “rude.” The Dallas Voice also tries to get Caraway to state his position on the morality/immorality of homosexuality. He declines, and apparently tells the Voice the reason he wasn’t at this year’s Gay Pride Parade was because it coincided with a Dallas Cowboys game. Got that? I can’t wait for the latest development.