NBA dress code: 'Time to grow up, act like men'

0 Comments | USA TODAY, October, 2005

Thousands are homeless on the heels of Katrina. Soldiers are putting their lives on the line daily. Tens of thousands die in the Asian earthquakes. Yet it's too much to ask an employee to dress appropriately?

Time to grow up, gentlemen of the NBA, and act like men for once in your life. It's a dress code!

No one is infringing on your constitutional rights. No one is taking away your cultural identity. You're being told to wear dress pants and to stop looking like a thug. That is, unless you can't afford to do so on your salary.

Just another reason for me to not follow the NBA.

Rich Carter

Williamsville, N.Y.

Symbolism: The issue of the NBA's dress code goes to the fiber of black/hip-hop culture. The policy is racist in nature because...

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