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I was going to say that, in their photo he looks like a thug or gang member, in your's he looks fantastic
My man looks like a nerd at his first high school debate. Where do you get gang member of a skinny guy in a suit?
I didn't even notice the suit in the first photo until I saw your comment, I just saw his face and thought of the "I'm the captain now" meme.
You mean like, "I'm the captain of the lacrosse team at Falls Church High School", right?
Please step back and analyze your biases to figure out why his image fits those stereotypes in your mind.
Smiling in the good picture, frowning in the bad one
Please step back and analyze your need to call out people based on incomplete information to figure out why you couldn't just ask for more info like the other comments in the thread.
This is my reason why I thought the first photo made him look like a thug.
When I first saw the photo I thought he looked very similar to the "I am the captain now" guy. That was my initial reaction, now obviously the more you study the images the more differences you find, so after a while you realize they a quite different.
Very telling comment.
fr, the original photo he's wearing a suit and tie and sitting at a desk. There's nothing there making him look like a "thug or gang member" beyond his race.
He looks like the "I'm the captain now" meme in that photo.
The actor was a Somalian from Minneapolis too.
Yes! Thank you that is exactly what I thought of!
Can you outline what specifically makes you think he looks like a thug or gang member in that photo?
In the first photo he looked similar to other thugs and gang members that I have seen in the media, though I mostly thought of the "I'm the captain now" meme
You dodged the question
How so?