The Demise Of Sunday Clothes

Garrick McFadden
7 min readFeb 23, 2024
Photo by John Price on Unsplash

The amount of fear and trepidation I experienced wearing my Sunday Clothes cannot be easily measured.

Let me remind you that I am the first generation of my family not to believe in spankings. I have never spanked my daughter. My parents were not so enlightened. Many offenses could trigger a spanking. One, in particular, was playing in your Sunday Clothes. Grass stains, tears, rips, missing buttons, or anything…

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Garrick McFadden

I am a civil-rights attorney. I write about #whiteness, #racism, #hiphop, policing & politics. https://gamesqlaw.com/index.php/thoughts/