Young African American males are burdened by a significant disconnect between their enthusiastic display of adolescence and the intransigence of authority. Beneath the surface of the Pull Up Your Pants laws is the lack of hope that young black men feel about their future and their place in American society. African American children were not yet born when their parents and grandparents did all the heavy lifting in the preliminary stages of social reform. Reforms are slow to embrace today's society, and stories continue to emerge of young African Americans subjected to harsh and sometimes unfair treatment. Stories like two black Tennessee teenagers arrested at Bolivar Central High School and jailed for 48 hours for indecent exposure due to their sagging pants (Deutschmann, 2015). In 2008, then-Senator Barak Obama had a unique perspective on the topic of Pull Up Your Pants during an interview with MTV: "The saggy pants law is a waste of time... said bros should pull up up your pants (Sirianni, 2012 P.762) Obama went on to talk about the desire to see African American males presented in a respectable manner. There is a resistance from a confrontational perspective versus a conciliatory one that comes from the influence of the industry African-American musical on black youth and by the promotion of baggy/baggy pants as an important social statement Americans are apparently unwilling to accept the uniqueness of African-American street culture and are clearly without viable alternatives to offer these youth..