Dont dress black and you should be fine

[depotoo]

I don't care what color you are, I see you wearing a hoodie with the hood pulled up,and it isn't cold, combined with your undies showing, I think thug.

Of course you do.

Yeah, and when 1 son went through that phase I let him know it.

 

[Porker]

Most important of all....don't wear your belt loops down around your damned ankles.

By the way...who is Lawrence Otis Graham?

He's a guy with real concerns. He wrote this recently. Read it. It should have an impact. If it doesn't.....you might be a nutter.

I taught my black kids that their elite upbringing would protect them from discrimination. I was wrong. - The Washington Post

I thought maybe his claim to fame was a box of graham crackers. Oh yeah, and I'm through reading that kind crap. I already gave it my best shot and after Ferguson, MO, I really don't give a shit anymore.

Yeah? You gave it your best shot? Cool. You CHOOSE to remain ignorant. You get what you deserve.

No, I choose not to believe that bullshit.

You didn't read it. How can you claim to not believe it. I know how. You choose to remain ignorant. It's clear.

Yeah, that's the ticket. I chose to believe the white cop and three autopsies conducted by BOTH parties coroners. Ain't that ******* ignorant?

 

[koshergrl]

Yeah, us white people have been teaching our kids how to dress for success for millennia.

Not success...survival

You have a point? Isn't survival a success?

Discuss among yourselves.

 

[Gracie]

Look at the brighter side. At least this dad is taking his job seriously and teaching his kids how to be safe, sane, and good citizens. And is in the home. And is part of his family life. And seems to give a **** about his children.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Look at the brighter side. At least this dad is taking his job seriously and teaching his kids how to be safe, sane, and good citizens. And is in the home. And is part of his family life. And seems to give a **** about his children.

Way to miss the point!

 

[LoneLaugher]

I don't care what color you are, I see you wearing a hoodie with the hood pulled up,and it isn't cold, combined with your undies showing, I think thug.

Of course you do.

Yeah, and when 1 son went through that phase I let him know it.

Say what? You have a son who let his underwear show?

 

[Asclepias]

Most important of all....don't wear your belt loops down around your damned ankles.

By the way...who is Lawrence Otis Graham?

We dont want to hear about your sex life. Thats off topic.

 

[LoneLaugher]

He's a guy with real concerns. He wrote this recently. Read it. It should have an impact. If it doesn't.....you might be a nutter.

I taught my black kids that their elite upbringing would protect them from discrimination. I was wrong. - The Washington Post

I thought maybe his claim to fame was a box of graham crackers. Oh yeah, and I'm through reading that kind crap. I already gave it my best shot and after Ferguson, MO, I really don't give a shit anymore.

Yeah? You gave it your best shot? Cool. You CHOOSE to remain ignorant. You get what you deserve.

No, I choose not to believe that bullshit.

You didn't read it. How can you claim to not believe it. I know how. You choose to remain ignorant. It's clear.

Yeah, that's the ticket. I chose to believe the white cop and three autopsies conducted by BOTH parties coroners. Ain't that ******* ignorant?

Off topic.

 

[Asclepias]

If you don't want to be identified with them, don't look like them. Sounds logical to me. Sucks that your wardrobe choices are limited, sure, but them's the breaks when somebody else messes up your look.

I have no problem being identified with Black people since I am Black. Its not up to me to educate ignorant *****.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Just look at what this guy and his kids have to do just to not be seen as a criminal first. Because not being a criminal isnt enough you have to

Dress different
Warm Colors
No hoodies
No tennis shoes
Dont hold anything in your hand that could be "seen" as a weapon....like a cell phone, a spatula, an object of any kind or nothing at all.
etc etc etc

Lawrence Otis Graham is an idiot! Mike Brown was dressed in the same way & in the same warm colors. The key thing to teach all children is not to be criminal thugs. Both of Mike Brown's parents are violent criminal thugs & they raised him that way.

False he graduated school and was going to college. Also had no arrest record...but he was big and black so...Yeah he was Kaiser Sosay

 

[Asclepias]

I don't care what color you are, I see you wearing a hoodie with the hood pulled up,and it isn't cold, combined with your undies showing, I think thug.

That wouldnt be exactly thinking. That would be giving into your instinctive impulse to categorize people.

 

[ClosedCaption]

I don't care what color you are, I see you wearing a hoodie with the hood pulled up,and it isn't cold, combined with your undies showing, I think thug.

Of course you do.

Yeah, and when 1 son went through that phase I let him know it.

Know what?

 

[Asclepias]

Somehow I dont think the sanctioned white approved attire rule is meant for their own kids.

 

[Godboy]

Clothing is important. You can tell a lot about a person by the way they dress.

Comparing Nazis to Urban wear huh?

THAT says a lot

Ohhhh, so you CAN tell a lot about a person based on the way they dress. You immediately recognized that those guys were trouble.Thank you for proving my point.

Yeah because Nazis are trouble...which is really different than clothes you can buy at Macy's.

There are no swastikas showing, yet you still are calling them Nazis. Why? Is it because of the way they dress? Guess what, when we see a bunch of thugs in hoodies, we avoid them too, and for the record, wherever they are getting their thug outfit, it isn't at Macys.

Hoodies are not thug wear idiot...Anyone can buy a hoodie. To dress like a Nazi requires pizzazz. You think they bought those clothes like that?

Of course you dont...but I can buy a hoodie anywhere. Funny you called a random black wearing a hoodie a thug and these guys are just yanno...maybe they're nice?

I wouldnt have posted a picture of skin heads if I thought there was nothing concerning about their clothes. I see no swastikas, you see no swastikas, but we both agree that they are likely nazi ski heads. Clothing matters. We make judgements about people based on their clothes.

 

[Roadrunner]

Somehow I dont think the sanctioned white approved attire rule is meant for their own kids.

I wear hoodies for the same reason everybody else does, so nobody knows who I am.

 

[Roadrunner]

I don't care what color you are, I see you wearing a hoodie with the hood pulled up,and it isn't cold, combined with your undies showing, I think thug.

That wouldnt be exactly thinking. That would be giving into your instinctive impulse to categorize people.

What would your instinctive impulse be if approached by five loud-mouth whiteboys in welding caps and sporting various sickening desecrations of the Confederate battle flag?

 

[ClosedCaption]

Comparing Nazis to Urban wear huh?

THAT says a lot

Ohhhh, so you CAN tell a lot about a person based on the way they dress. You immediately recognized that those guys were trouble.Thank you for proving my point.

Yeah because Nazis are trouble...which is really different than clothes you can buy at Macy's.

There are no swastikas showing, yet you still are calling them Nazis. Why? Is it because of the way they dress? Guess what, when we see a bunch of thugs in hoodies, we avoid them too, and for the record, wherever they are getting their thug outfit, it isn't at Macys.

Hoodies are not thug wear idiot...Anyone can buy a hoodie. To dress like a Nazi requires pizzazz. You think they bought those clothes like that?

Of course you dont...but I can buy a hoodie anywhere. Funny you called a random black wearing a hoodie a thug and these guys are just yanno...maybe they're nice?

I wouldnt have posted a picture of skin heads if I thought there was nothing concerning about their clothes. I see no swastikas, you see no swastikas, but we both agree that they are likely nazi ski heads. Clothing matters. We make judgements about people based on their clothes.

And you shouldnt especially when that style is a style available at Ambercrombie.

Nazi style is not offered anywhere for obvious reasons

 

[ClosedCaption]

Somehow I dont think the sanctioned white approved attire rule is meant for their own kids.

I wear hoodies for the same reason everybody else does, so nobody knows who I am.

Here I thought all this time it was to keep your head warm.

 

[Roadrunner]

Somehow I dont think the sanctioned white approved attire rule is meant for their own kids.

I wear hoodies for the same reason everybody else does, so nobody knows who I am.

Here I thought all this time it was to keep your head warm.

If that were true, you would not routinely see them year round in the South.

But, you knew that.

 

[bodecea]

Yeah, us white people have been teaching our kids how to dress for success for millennia. I have pics of my 29 year old son as a 2 year old with a bowtie and a plaid jacket. My 11 year old son has a suit, and I make him wear it. It doesn't sag, it's fitted correctly, there is no ball cap associated with it, no untied tennis shoes, he doesn't wear a single logo anywhere on his body, except the Italian designer label on the inside of his jacket.

It's good to see modern urban blacks are finally catching on.

Dressing for success like Black Muslims?