“MERRILLVILLE, Ind. — Officials have banned pink clothing for the remainder of the school year out of concerns that the color has become associated with gang activity.
Administrators last week told students at the city’s high school and two middle schools to avoid wearing pink clothing or accessories, said Michael Berta, associate superintendent in the Northwestern Indiana district.
“There is no evidence of gang activity. But because of the growing use of the color pink we decided to be proactive. Girls and boys are supposed to avoid wearing pink,” Berta said Monday.
None of the district’s 6,500 students have been disciplined for wearing pink, he said.
Berta said the issue came up at a recent administrator’s meeting when a principal remarked that there were more students wearing pink. “Not only were there more kids wearing pink T-shirts and pink hats, but also pink shoelaces, which was unusual,” he said.
Unusual, yes. Aesthetically repulsive, of course. But quasi-criminal?
C’mon. What kind of self-respecting band of marauding punk thugs would make pink their gang color? The 6th Street Birthday Cakes? The Highland Park Bubble Gum Chewers? The East Side Pepto Bismallers…? Can you even pull a gun out of a pair of pink pants without eliciting a chuckle and a ten-gallon bitchslap? I should think gang members would prefer “menacing” to “he looks like he’s a very good dancer.”
Here’s an idea: instead of “proactively” banning a particular clothing color out of the unlikely fear that a hormone-addled swarm mentality will turn ordinary teens into swishy, gun-toting extras from West Side Story, perhaps Merrillville “officials” would do better to ban themselves from ever using the term “proactive” again. At least until they’re able to put it to better use. Like, say, proactively banning assistant superintendents from being reached for comment.
Now. Go to your room and think about what you’ve done, Merrillville.
“Once you’re a jet, you’re a jet all the way… from your first cigarette to your last dying day…”
Hey look, here comes Roger again, dancing, wearing pink, and singing from a musical. Let’s kick his ass and take his lunch money…
I wrote a couple of weeks ago about my daughter’s school banning kids from wearing all red or all blue because of gang fear. Yes, middle class suburbia is just crawling with gangs.
Warriors, come out and plaaaaaaaaay…..
Every time I read something like this, I feel both old and glad I’m not in school any more. And I think, “What a bunch of Maroons!”
Obviously it was some kind of fad, as anyone who bothers to remember their childhood would realize. One wonders whether the kids will pick yet another color, and get another ban. What happens when they run out of colors to ban?
I guess Principal Whatsisname hasn’t been to a mall lately. The last time I was in one, there was nowhere I could look that wasn’t effing pink. It’s apparently the “in” color, often paired with (get your barf bags ready) brown. And they ask me why I buy so few new clothes.
And it goes without saying that if the “Pink” gangs were to escalate their activities along the lines of, I dunno, organizing great classics of Western Civilization study groups and critical thinking workshops…the chuckleheads at Merrillville would ban those too.
When I posted this, one of my commenters said that he had received police warnings about the use of pink by gangs 17 years ago, when he was teaching in Chicago.
Of course, it’s not really surprising that in 1987, pink was considered a ferocious color. Perhaps those gangs using it now are going for a retro-ferocious look?
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