Perceptions On What Clothes You Wear: Does It Matter What You Wear?[VIDEO]
How do you dress yourself up? Are you the type who wears something casual and earthy, or is your wardrobe more colorful? Does it matter to you how you look and what you're wearing before going out somewhere? Does it matter to you that you might get mistaken for a different identity because of the clothes you're wearing?
In a society where we see and hear a lot of people being mistaken for someone else, especially criminals, the media is perpetuating anxiety over people of color.
Black people are more prone to being profiled and helpless, no matter what they do or wear.
Most men feel confused on what to wear--what might make others with certain prejudices perceive them to be gangsters or criminals?
But no matter what they do, these men illustrate how that if the media plays a major role in profiling people as dangerous based the way they dress, no matter what they do or how they act, these prejudiced perceptions still exists.
This powerful video aims to reach out to show the fear that black men in particular face when simply deciding what to wear.