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Brut America
  • 4/7/2025
7 years ago, hoodies became a talking point after Trayvon Martin was shot and killed while wearing one. Unfortunately, the incident hasn't curtailed the racial profiling of black people wearing hooded sweatshirts.
Transcript
00:00I am Trayvon! I want the vote! Justice! We want the vote now!
00:21Racial profiling has to stop, Mr. Speaker.
00:27Just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hula.
00:35He has shown you, old man, what is good.
00:38And I'm just like, I don't understand, like, he has a hoodie on, I have a hoodie on, what's the difference?
00:59And he was like, oh, uh, that's the owner's cousin.
01:08It just struck a chord in us that we could do that. We could wear whatever we wanted.

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