pull up your pants
(US, informal, attributive) A reference to respectability politics, especially with regard to African-Americans.
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(US, informal, attributive) A reference to respectability politics, especially with regard to African-Americans.
Over at NewsOne, Donovan X. Ramsey contrasted two approaches President Obama has taken with black audiences: 1) the finger-wagging, pull-up-your-pants approach that he often takes with African-Americans, like the graduates at all-male Mo…
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