THis whole thing about hoodies and shit reminded me of an incident that happened during my time at university.I was coming home at night with two of my housemates, black medical students, and we were about 100m from our house. Since it was freezing cold at 4AM, we all had hoods on.... We saw 3 South Asian girls who were in our year, they had turned around the corner saw us turned around the corner and no word of a lie, ran...... We saw this shit and were like, hmmm. So we went around the corner and were like, "yo it's us". So we went to try and tell them, it was us, they then ran back into our uni to escape three hooded black-youths. I had to go to my uni, swipe into it. Go to them and
Me: Hey, did you see three suspicious looking guys outside?"
Them: Yeah
Me: Two of them are outside
Them: Oh really then where's the other.....
The luck on their face when they clocked on was priceless. I took them outside and then they all loooked awkwordly at us and tried to make jokes and excuses about it. We talked about it and we were like, was it cos we were wearing hoods or was it cos we were black? There were like two other instances where i wore a hood and my friends remarked that they started getting shook. Hell i knew the skinniest, nerdiest, looking medical student. Think this:
This girl i know, said she was reluctant to get on a bus because he was wearing a hood. This guy was always around school, smartly dressed but when he wears a hood he goes from Carlton Banks to DMX in the blink of an eye. I am seriously reminded of the fact i can't wear hoods when out in public without knowing that being 6 foot 2 and black i will probably intimidate a shit tonne of people. The only time i can think of where i could get away with wearing a hood and not scare a person or two is if it's one with my school logo.
My little brother and i are gonna have to have a talk about this shit.