The Veil? Fergetaboutit! Ban the hoodie!~

[g_bambino]

So you're saying that you've never seen a construction worker? Hoodies are the de facto uniform on construction sites. When I was in construction I had a large collection of hoodie's. In fact many were given to me by suppliers we used, as a promotional item. Really, only gangstas wear hoodies, what a load of totally fallacious crap.

It's not as though only ghetto thugs wear hoodies. However, we can't pretend as though hoodies aren't a part of the gangsta thug uniform.

I've seen them worn often on construction sites. Wouldn't have thought as often as to call them part of a de facto construction worker uniform, though. Maybe they could be...

[-TSS-]

There are certain situation when a person needs to be identified. Walking on the street is not such a situation. Passport-control is one of those situations. Otherwise, it does not bother me if someone insists on wearing a black sack in an over 30-degree heat. At least that is what they tell us that they do it out of their own will. Whether we believe it or not is irrelevant.

[capricorn]

To be honest with 256kb compression and an excellent set of headphones, the sound isn't perfect but it's great for portability.

It beats having to go around with a boombox.

[dre]

Whether or not the style connection is valid is irrelevant. Whether or not people should mistrust those wearing hoodies is also irrelevant.

The plain and simple fact is that large numbers of people DO make the connection and DO mistrust those wearing them!

Now, how about you and CC convince all those people that they are wrong? Perhaps you could scold them in a post here on MLW! That would work...NOT!

No need to to convince them that theyre wrong... Who cares what they think? Everyone is entitled to their opinion on what people should wear but they dont get to impose that opinion on others.

People that dont like hoodies shouldnt wear them.

Theres really nowhere else for this discussion to go. Its a total waste of time.

[cybercoma]

It beats having to go around with a boombox.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI1XjSGeuBw&t=2m53s

I definitely saw some hoodies in there.

Edited April 5, 2012 by cybercoma

[capricorn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI1XjSGeuBw&t=2m53s

I definitely saw some hoodies in there.

Linky no worky but I found it on youtube. Back then, looks like the headgear of choice was a bandana around the forehead.

Edited April 5, 2012 by capricorn

[DogOnPorch]

I guess they didn't get the memo.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/04/05/robbers-suspected-of-killing-victorville-man-outside-swap-meet-identified/

[jbg]

Linky no worky but I found it on youtube. Back then, looks like the headgear of choice was a bandana around the forehead.

I guess they didn't get the memo.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/04/05/robbers-suspected-of-killing-victorville-man-outside-swap-meet-identified/

I guess no one gets that alternative and rebellious life styles often (but not always) flag a dangerous situation. Maybe some cultures should concentrate on work and productivity, not having an attitude.

Jesse Jackson said it best, this April 13, 1976 article in the New York Times Magazine (link, excerpts below) (I will e-mail anyone interested the full PDF of the article, just PM me):

Give the People a Vision

A civil-rights veteran calls for a new 'self-development' crusade. Black Americans, he says, must take greater responsibility for their own plight.

The thrust of my argument is that black Americans must begin to accept a larger share of responsibility for their lives. For too many years we have been crying that racism and oppression have kept us down. That is ,true, and racism and oppression have to be fought on every front. But to fight any battle takes soldiers who are strong, healthy, spirited, committed, well•trained and confident. This is particularly true when the enemy is as tough and elusive as

American racism. I don't believe that we will produce strong soldiers by moaning. about what' the enemy has done to us.

It is time, I think, for us to stand up, admit to our failures and weaknesses and begin to strengthen ourselves.

*******************

We too often condemn blacks who succeed and excel, calling them Toms and the like, when the ideal ought to be for all of us to succeed and excel.

We are allowing a minuscule minority of criminals in our midst to create disorder, ruin our schools and sap the energy we need to rebuild our neighborhoods and our cities. Many leaders who are black, and many white liberals, will object to my discussing these things in public. But the decadence in black communities--killings, destruction of our own businesses, violence in the schools—is already in the headlines; the only question is what we should do about it. Others will object that to demand that we must meet the challenge of self-government is to put too much pressure on the victims of ancient wrongs. Yet ill spite of these objections, in spite of yesterday's agony, liberation struggles are built on sweat and pain rather than tears and complaints.

(snip)

Now Jesse Jackson is not likely to be an apologist for George Zimmerman.

Edited April 6, 2012 by jbg

[cybercoma]

I'm sick of racists playing the shell game with words and substituting "culture" for race, thinking that their arguments are somehow less racist.

[Guest Peeves]

I'm sick of racists playing the shell game with words and substituting "culture" for race, thinking that their arguments are somehow less racist.

Try a little peppermint tea with a little honey.

And culture is certainly different than race, not interchangeable.

We can certainly speak to one without it being otherwise implied.

[cybercoma]

You certainly could.

Edited April 6, 2012 by cybercoma

[DogOnPorch]

You certainly could.

Jewish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2uQ8GMHlTI

Not Jewish.

[Tilter]

not true! Before Clark Kent became Superman in Smallville he was The Blur and he wore a hooded coat. Oliver Queen aka Green Arrow wore a hood also

I didn't say "Superman movies WERE unreal," I said "Superman movies ARE unreal," (persent day.

If Superman, in thwe present day, were to prevent a world class arch terrorist from committing some unmentionable crime it would take him 3 hours to find a phone booth in which to change--- the crime would be already done. Maybe he could find a way to change in a Cellphone sales booth--- there arer lots of them around.