Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: The Trayton Martin shooter had a concealed weapons permit [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)are white as the driven snow. Eminem (I almost wrote M and M, like an old fart, which I am) did that jazzy video around the election in the black hoodie that made all the "burbie" Caucasians want to run out and buy one.
Hell, in the assisted living facility down the road from me, where I go to take nice little ladies to the polls, and the doctor, and the supermart, a bunch of them wear pastel zip up hoodies--it's the new senior fashion statement. They are the jacket-du-jour from elementary school on up.
The "thug life" guys haven't "owned" the hoodie in years. They're the "go to" jacket that has decisively replaced the "windbreaker" or any other light-to-medium jacket worn by most people in a casual environment. They're not just for criminals or kids on sports teams, or people in sail boats.
If this guy who shot that kid in cold blood had an idea that hoodie=gangbanging thug, he's beyond stupid.