I have to admit it. I give the fish eye to guys that fit this description in public. I even go so far as to say something to them so they realize they are not anonymous. I never get insulting or aggressive but will almost always try to make eye contact and say in a neighborly way, " how ya doing" . Sometimes they look at me like I am a retarded kid but usually they say fine... And you? We even give my son in law a hard time when he wears his San Diego chargers hoody. He looks like a darned thug in that thing. A six foot five inch thug!Keith B wrote:Call it what you want, but I don't think there is a protected class or category of people who wear a hoodie and sunglasses due to their religion or culture
If I see a person in the middle of summer wearing a sunglasses, no problem. But if they are wearing a hoodie and all hunkered over like they are cold when they are entering a store, they're gonna be suspect.
Funny thing happened in Memphis. Some kid with his britches hanging around his ankles looked at the hoody and without a bit of fear said... In a gang banger type diction... That thing would be cool if it said Dallas Cowboys on it. We still make that comment to him when he wears it.
Another hoody story. My daughter took a picture of herself wearing one of those hoodies with a skull mask built into it. She posted the pic on her Facebook profile. It was taken down within an hour and Facebook deemed it "controversial".
Profiling may lead to mistaken character identification at times, but to pretend it does not exist is a fantasy.
Most of us profile several times a day.